REVIEW TESTIMONY MEETING.—NO. 7.
The subscription for which Marcus L. Carpenter had paid expired Feb. 20, 1900. He died March 3, 1899. The inclosed paper found among his papers after his death, will show how he valued the REVIEW:— “When wearied with my daily toil,
And burdened with the cares of life;
When sick of this vain world's turmoil,
So full of sorrow, sin, and strife;
When longing for some sweet release,
My drooping courage to renew,
And bring me gladness, light, and peace,
With joy I welcome the REVIEW.”
“REVIEW AND HERALD, how I love
Thy weekly visits! They to me
Seem like a Godsend from above,
To guide me o’er life's stormy sea;
Ofttimes they are so opportune,
To check my worldliness and pride.
Without thy counsel I might soon
Be swept along with this world's tide.”
MRS. M. I. CARPENTER. —, MICH., March 7, 1900.
I have been an Adventist for more than 20 years, and have never ceased taking our good paper, the REVIEW; could not get along without it.
C. P. HASKELL. —, OHIO, Jan. 7, 1900.
I should miss you very much if you should fail even once to make your weekly visit. Therefore, please find in this $1.50 to insure your regular visits for another year.
MRS. FLORA H. WILLIAMS. —, TEX., Dec. 25, 1899.
Find inclosed $1.50 for another year's subscription for the good REVIEW. I think the REVIEW gets better all the time, and I should be sorry indeed if I could not have its weekly visits.
MRS. ANNIE BARTLETT. —, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1899.
Your paper, the REVIEW, is so full of instruction that I should regard it a great loss to do without it. I hope to secure some new subscriptions. It is a rich blessing in any house.
MRS. ANNA E. WARNER. —, FLA., Jan. 8, 1900.
As I renew my order for the REVIEW, I feel like speaking a word of praise and appreciation for the dear old paper. I am a lonely Sabbath-keeper, and seldom have the privilege of hearing a sermon; so you can imagine how I welcome the weekly visits of the REVIEW, but you can never know the many blessings I receive from it until we meet around the throne of glory.
MRS. J. M. ISENBERG. —, OHIO, Jan. 8, 1900.
Please find inclosed postal order for $2, the extra 50 cents to pay for the paper four months to Mrs. _____. Your labor of love is appreciated by me. I am thankful to the Lord for the agents he has sent to make plain the messages of truth for these last times.
C. E. EDY. —, MD., March 7, 1900.
I wish to thank the kind friend who has been sending my son the REVIEW. It is the best religious paper I ever read. I send 25 cents for two-months' subscription, hoping to renew again when the time expires.
MRS. OCTAVIA BOWMAN. —, MISS., March 5, 1900.
We are glad to renew our subscription to the REVIEW. It is such a comfort to us, as we are the only Sabbath-keepers in this county so far as we know. We are always glad to get it.
M. M. ADAMS. —, EGYPT, Feb. 7, 1900.
Inclosed I send a report for the REVIEW. As soon as I gain more strength, I hope to do more for the REVIEW. Our workers in foreign fields, not able to take a newspaper, greatly appreciate the News and Notes department of the REVIEW. It saves me much reading, as it gives about as good an idea of the news as I daily, and avoids the rubbish.
H. P. HOLSER. —, NEB., Jan. 10, 1900.
I send my renewal in this letter, although my time is not out. It has been a great loss to us lately not to get the REVIEW regularly, on account of moving. So many interesting things have been missed. The REVIEW has been a comfort and help for about fourteen years; and the longer we take it, the harder it is for us to do without it. May the Lord bless it more and more, and bless all who help to make it so good.
MRS. J. B. NEAL. —, Dec. 28, 1899.
Inclosed please find $1.50, renewal for REVIEW. I don't wish to miss any copies. I love its weekly visits. It is improving right along.
ROBERT CARR. —, IOWA, —, 1899.
The REVIEW is too important a paper for us to lose any number. I prize it as highly as any letter. I can not see how any one who takes it can miss reading any part of it. I read it from beginning to end, although I can not subscribe for it a full year at a time.
MRS. MAY DRAUN. —, MINN., Jan. 10, 1900.
Inclosed please find $1.50 to renew my subscription to the REVIEW. May God bless you for publishing so great a paper.
H. H. BROWN. —, N. Y., March 8, 1900.
It is with thankful heart that I send my renewal for the REVIEW. It is a refreshing shower that comes to us every week, and I would not know how to do without it. Have read it ever since I became an Adventist,—about thirty-six years ago,—and it seems to grow better each week.
W. N. PARKER. —, KAN., Sept. 20, 1899.
I have taken the REVIEW for two years, and I feel that I can not be without it. The Lord is enlightening my family through its silent ministry, for which I am praising God.
MRS. FRED MOODY. —, MO., Sept. 25, 1899.
Please send the REVIEW to me for the next three months. I can not get along without it.
R. K. PAST. —, Sept. 15, 1899.
Please find inclosed subscription for REVIEW, as I can not do without it.
MRS. L. S. BRIGGS. —, 1899.
I send you to-day $1.50 for the REVIEW. Our crops were badly damaged with hail, and we were afraid we would have to drop the paper; but we must have it, if we have to go without something else. We have taken it ever since we were Sabbath-keepers, and can not afford to do without it.
M. E. GRIDLEY. —, Sept. 12, 1899.
We have been giving our neighbors some reading-matter, and they are very much interested in the REVIEW. One woman says it is the best reading-matter she ever saw. We take the REVIEW, Signs, and Instructor, and do not think we could do without them very well. We distribute them all.
MRS. E. A. PARKER. —, FLA., Oct. 7, 1899.
I write to renew my REVIEW subscription. It is all the preaching I have. I have not heard a preacher for three years, and I do not see how I could do without the paper. There is no Seventh-day Adventist in this part of the country.
W. J. HASTY. —, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1899.
I am thankful to be able to renew my subscription for the REVIEW. I feel that I can not do without it. I think the REVIEW is the best paper that I have ever taken, and I wish to be a subscriber to it as long as I live.
LORINDA P. STEERE. —, KAN., Sept. 8, 1899.
Don't wonder at my not taking the REVIEW for the last four months; for I had “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,” “Marvel of Nations,” and “Bible Readings,” which I had not studied for years. I could not read all and do my work. Now I will sign for the good old weekly visitor, the REVIEW. It is the best paper that is published.
O. D. NICHOLS. —, KAN., Sept. 8, 1899.
Excuse me for not sending my subscription money when the time expired, but my parents were staying with me, and we did not need two REVIEWS; but now they have gone to California, so I am in great need of your excellent paper. I am sorry I have not the fifty cents to add to the one dollar, so as to pay for one year.
MRS. L. E. ALLEN. —, ALA., Sept. 7, 1899.
I have learned, by happy experience, from your regular visits for the last eighteen or twenty years that you always come with a “feast of fat things.” I wish all the world could have the benefit of your visits. Our church here, I believe, has but one member that does not take the REVIEW; and last year I paid for it, and sent it to her.
W. G. BUCKNER. —, WIS., Aug. 30, 1899.
I like the paper so well that I can not afford to do without it.
MRS. LENA STORMER. —, WIS., Aug. 31, 1899.
DEAR OLD FRIEND: Hearing your knock, I hasten to open the door, and explain why you have not found us “at home” in your weekly rounds. We have been going from one place to another ever since last winter, and so left you to call at our daughter's house, instead of following us in our wanderings. When you called at other places and on other people, we read your cheering words. You are a welcome guest; and when from any cause your chair is vacant, you are greatly missed.
WM. SANDERS. —, NEB., Aug. 28, 1899.
I assure you the REVIEW is highly appreciated by me; and it gets better all the time. But this should be expected, in harmony with the progressive times as we near the end.
VICTOR THOMPSON. —, OHIO, Jan. 1, 1900.
Please find inclosed $1.50, for which send the REVIEW for one year. I can not think of doing without the paper, as for many months at a time, we do not have the privilege of hearing a minister. The REVIEW is as a living minister to us every week.
MRS. M. M. BRUNSON. —, ALA., Dec. 27, 1899.
Please send the REVIEW. I don't think we have missed a paper since we first subscribed, and that was many years ago; and we can't afford to miss it now.
A. S. DEVINNEY. —, N. Y., Jan. 5, 1900.
I doubt if any subscriber has appreciated the REVIEW for the last two years any more than I, or if any have been more seriously impressed with the valuable matter that it contains.
G. B. JONES. —, MASS., Jan. 5, 1900.
I congratulate you on the excellent paper you are publishing. I think it ought to have a large circulation outside of our own denomination. I have often wished that many of its articles might be read by every one in the country.
GEO. B. WHEELER.