We Isolated Sabbath-Keepers Must Have It by T. E. Bowen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 7, 1910

“We Isolated Sabbath-Keepers Must Have It”

By T. E. Bowen

So writes one of them over in Australia concerning the good old REVIEW. And what this far-away, isolated Sabbath-keeper says, applies to all of our near-by Sabbath-keepers as well. To show how much the REVIEW is appreciated over on the other side of the world, we will quote a little more of what was said by the Australian brother when renewing his subscription. He says: “By sending now it will enable us to continue without a break. This paper keeps us well posted in the progress of the third angel’s message in all parts of the world. I see by a late number the price is raised a little. Very well, perhaps this is necessary. No matter what it is, whether 7s. 6d., or 8s. 6d., we isolated Sabbath-keepers must have it.”

The REVIEW’s mission is to build up the third angel’s message in all parts of the world by keeping its readers in touch with the progress of the message in every land. Often the Mission Board is asked to tell which is the most needy field. This is a question easier asked than answered. Let it be turned about. After you have read all the reports from the missionaries in the various fields, appearing in an issue of the REVIEW, which of these fields, in your judgment, is the most needy? Does it not seem to you, as you read one report after another, that it is the one about which you are reading? Anyhow, nearly all present so many urgent appeals that it is really difficult to imagine how a field could be more needy than the one at the time under consideration.

But one thing is sure, all of our people need the REVIEW every week to know what the needs are. To drop out

one number is to lose a link in God’s chain of providential working in behalf of his own cause in the earth. Every isolated Sabbath-keeper doubly needs it, to be sure, deprived as he is of the association and help of others; but we can not understand how any Sabbath-keeping home can get along without the REVIEW.

It is much, no doubt, as it is with the brother or sister who drops out of the prayer-meeting. One does not realize how much he misses. So those of you who have the REVIEW can do much to help others sense the importance of taking it by telling them how good it is, and how much they are missing each week by not taking it. One sister lent her paper a few weeks to another who did not realize what she was losing. The taste of the good food a few times brought in another member to the regular family board.

God’s message is going fast. Great developments are taking place very rapidly now. To keep up and be in touch with the Lord’s work in all lands you need the REVIEW every week; for it is to this paper above all others that the Mission Board invites the missionaries to send their frequent reports to keep all the people informed regarding their work and the needs in their fields. Let us be sure not to lose any of these letters written home to us; for in company with the isolated Sabbath-keepers, we all “must have it.”

T. E. BOWEN.