The Review by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 17, 1903

The Review

By Editor

AGAIN we feel constrained gratefully to acknowledge the many interesting letters that daily come to the Office bearing messages of sympathy in our affliction, confidence in the work, and appreciation of the REVIEW. It would be a pleasure to respond to each of these encouraging communications personally would time and expense permit; but we hope that all our friends who have written us will allow us to thank them in this public way for their subscriptions to the REVIEW, for their renewals, and for their encouraging and very helpful letters.

We would like to publish the hundreds of unsolicited testimonials for the REVIEW that are coming to us nearly every week, but this would require nearly all the space in the paper from week to week. We may, however, from time to time, quote a few testimonies that differ from the majority, in order that our readers may have some conception of the estimation placed upon the REVIEW by many of its readers. The great majority say, in substance, that they cannot get along without it; that they would rather give up any other reading they have than the good old REVIEW.

We have just received a renewal from a young sister whose mother died a few days after the burning of the Office, and we take the liberty to quote a few statements from the letter which accompanied her remittance:—

“The dear one to whose address the REVIEW has been coming for over forty years passed away just one week after the fire, but you will please send the paper to the same old address, for I cannot bear a change in that respect so long as we retain the present home. I shall never forget the look of pain and surprise that came over her dear face when I told mother of the terrible calamity that had befallen the printing plant. For some time very few things had attracted her notice or seemed to interest her, but at this she exclaimed, ‘O, the dear old REVIEW! Well, the truth still lives. Remember, don’t let the subscription expire when I’m gone.’ And I never shall. Being somewhat isolated, there have been times when the REVIEW was the only Adventist friend we saw for months; and none could be more welcome. Of all our good periodicals, the REVIEW AND HERALD is the best. It fills the greatest place in the home, and for circulation among unbelievers it is read, appreciated, and has an influence, where others seem to fail.”

Since the change of the form of the REVIEW, it has been demonstrated that it is indeed a good missionary paper. It is attractive in appearance; and when people once examine it, they seem to like it. Those who have used the REVIEW in missionary racks both before and since the change of form have written us and expressed surprise that the REVIEW is taken far more since the change than before. It is now difficult to keep the racks supplied with the REVIEW, the papers are taken so rapidly.

As to the matter the REVIEW contains, one of our oldest and most prominent ministers writes:—

“While we sympathize with you and the cause generally respecting the burning of the office building, we greatly congratulate you in the apparent change in the matter in the REVIEW. With the tone that is coming into it of late, I think there will be no difficulty in increasing the subscription list.”

Certainly these appreciative words are encouraging to those who are working hard to make the paper a messenger of light, and a source of encouragement and strength to the whole people.

DEPARTMENT OF CIRCULATION.