Editorial by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 23, 1911

Editorial

By Editor

“To every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.”

THUS the advent message was divinely marked for all the world. And it has been flying swiftly toward the goal. Our brethren in the early days rejoiced as they saw the work begin to enlarge. In the REVIEW of Jan. 3, 1856, it was stated:—

“The scattered flock” is a term often used by our people, denoting those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. It is very appropriate, as will be seen from the fact that we send out papers to Sabbath-keepers in nineteen different States of this Union, from Maine to California, besides the Canadas.

AT that time the REVIEW was our only paper. Now many papers in many languages are preaching the message. And the “scattered flock” is spread through all the continents. We asked our circulating department to tell us where the REVIEW goes now. Its report shows, of course, a list in every one of the forty-eight States and Territories, with Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Philippines, and in every province of the Canadian Dominion. Week by week the REVIEW goes into all the countries of Europe, save Greece and the Balkan States.

IN Africa, the paper visits homes in Egypt, Algeria, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, South Nigeria, Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, Rhodesia, Northwest Rhodesia, Griqualand West, Basutoland, Nyasaland, British East Central Africa (Uganda), German East Africa, and Eritrea (by Abyssinia). Thus, round the circle of the Dark Continent and away in the interior, in regions unexplored in 1856, the REVIEW is assuredly passing on the words of cheer and progress contributed from all parts.

THE list for Asia shows that we reach Siberia, Japan, Korea, Straits Settlements, Burma, India (from Bengal to the Bombay side, and from Tinnevelli to the Himalayas), Syria, and Palestine, including the ancient Joppa and Jerusalem. This means that the witnesses for the last message are spreading in a yet slender line through Asia, the cradle of the human race.

TO the southward, the REVIEW reaches readers in Mexico, Guatemala, British Honduras, Spanish Honduras, the Bay Islands, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama; and in the West Indies, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Bahamas, Barbados, Trinidad, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Dominica, St. Croix, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Grenada; in South America, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, and British Guiana.

BY the Pacific mail routes we reach New Zealand, West Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, Brisbane Island, Java, Sumatra, New Guinea, and the Fiji, Samoan, Cook, Society, Tuamotu, and Friendly Islands. Out in the mid-Atlantic, Bermuda receives the REVIEW’s weekly visits.

THUS our lists bear testimony to the fact that the “scattered flock” is being sought out from amid many nations and peoples in this time of “the gathering call.” And our papers in other languages go where even the REVIEW does not.

“Long upon the mountains, weary, Have the scattered flock been torn; Dark the desert paths, and dreary; Grievous trials have they borne. Now the gathering call is sounding, Solemn in its warning voice; Union, faith, and love, abounding, Bid the little flock rejoice.”