Interesting Letters

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 3, 1915

Interesting Letters

THE following letter, just received, is representative of the many letters that are constantly being sent to the REVIEW by those who have read the paper for a number of years:—

“I am sending a post-office money order in this letter for $2, to renew my subscription for the REVIEW for one year. I wish to say that the years that I have been reading the REVIEW have taught me that it is difficult to live a good, clean, up-to-date, wide-awake Christian life in this message without the REVIEW. I know that it is a medium through which God speaks to his people. It keeps us in touch with all the plans and work of this movement. Its messages are inspiring; its counsels are sound and safe. If we let the REVIEW have its rightful place, it will be a light to guide us through life’s darkest night.

“In my own experience during the fourteen years I have read the REVIEW, I have learned that it always has a message that just fits my case. I have learned that when I am sorely pressed and need human sympathy and counsel, the next issue of the REVIEW generally has just what I need. I really believe the REVIEW has a specific work to do, a message to bear, as much as any individual the Lord ever called. But it cannot do that work except as it can get into the homes and hearts of the people. Praying that it may never lose its bearing till its work is done, I am,

“Sincerely yours,

“WM. E. ESTELLE.”

This letter, which was recently received, will serve as an example of the many letters coming to us concerning the REVIEW Present Truth Series, and referring to other publications previously received:—

“BRETHREN: On the second of this month I was at the Goodview post office, in Virginia. I saw a copy of a sermon preached by some one on Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the great image [P. T. S. No. 2]. This paper was addressed to Stephen I. St. Clair, but he has moved to another county, and others get his paper.

“All who saw the paper remarked that Squire Dooley had been reading the paper. I told them that I had not seen it before, but that I had read my Bible, and had studied the dream, and the world’s history that was involved in it, and had also read Smith’s ‘Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,’ and that no book had ever been issued from the press, outside of the Bible, that had more truth in it than that book. I cannot keep it at home. I have not seen it for six years. If a lover of truth ever gets hold of it, it is never relinquished until it is read and reread. It is somewhere in the city of Roanoke, Va. What I want to know is this: What will fifty or one hundred copies of the sermon cost me, as I want them for gratuitous distribution? Let me know by return mail, and I will forward money for the same.

“I could tell you much of my experience with the leading members of the various denominations in regard to what I have taught concerning the end of time and the coming of the Son of man to judgment. For twenty-five years I taught my pupils in school the fearful times that the world was approaching. They didn’t think that I would live to see it, but God in his infinite mercy has permitted me to live to see the beginning of the struggle that will lead to Armageddon, and the time of trouble spoken of by Daniel over 2,400 years ago, and of the third woe spoken of in Rev 11: 14-18. S. H. DOOLEY.”