The War Extra by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 27, 1914

The War Extra

By Editor

Answering the World's Universal Question, “What Do These Things Mean?”

THE following prominent notice of the REVIEW Extra and of the Washington tent meetings was published in the Washington Times of August 15; and as this announcement was being run in the city papers without being known by our people, the churches in Washington, in a few minutes during the Sabbath services, provided for the purchase and the circulation of 25,000 copies of the REVIEW Extra.

Can We Do Less?

In view of the prevailing intense interest in the present European crisis, and the important bearing the entire present situation has upon the signs of the end and of the coming of the Lord, and in view of the fact that the people in their perplexity naturally and justly turn to us for our interpretation of the meaning of these things, what less can we do than give a prompt answer through the literal sowing of the strong, yet inexpensive REVIEW Extra?

The time for prompt action has come. The world is ready seriously to consider. The golden opportunity is at our door; and if we use it, blessings and added light will follow. If we fail, our present light may be turned into darkness.

Some Ways to Begin

1. Pray that God will set you on fire with a missionary zeal, and will help you to open up ways for successful and effective work.

2. Make a definite, faith-exhibiting beginning by ordering a generous supply of the Extra at once.

3. While the papers are being sent to you, arrange your personal affairs so you can have some immediate time in which to circulate the papers.

4. If you are isolated and in the country, load up a buggy, a horse, a bicycle, a motor cycle, or an automobile, and travel through the country, leaving a paper in every mail box on the road you are able to cover. If you are in a town or city, put a paper in all the homes in your immediate vicinity, and place a copy in all vehicles of small towns, and present a copy to all persons you can reach in the business sections.

5. In places where there is a company of our people, or a church, a careful and thorough division of territory should be arranged for and definite parts to be worked promptly and thoroughly should be assigned to individuals. The workers of the churches in Washington met at the tent, each person received his papers, with a slip giving the territory to be worked, and the entire city was practically covered in one day. A decisive, sudden, and united effort was made. There seems to be an added power accompanying a concerted action of this kind. It has a swing, an inspiration, and a momentum that is irresistible.

6. In places where there are conference tract societies, the churches can do a large work through mailing the Extra at small expense, the tract societies being able to mail the papers at pound rates. In other places perhaps arrangements may be made with the tract societies for a reasonable allowance for addressing wraps to send the Extra at pound rates to lists of names supplied. The papers are 50 cents per 100; pound rate postage and addressing wraps to plainly written addresses, 35 cents per 100, making a total of 85 cents per 100. If any of the conference tract societies cannot accommodate the churches in this way, the publishers can and will at the above rates.

7. The Lord's way to begin and his way to finish a good work of this kind, under all conditions and varying circumstances, is the best and most successful of all ways, and he will reveal it to every one “whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it.”