p. 16 | A Statement by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 27, 1903

A Statement

By Editor

Since our recent fire a report has been in circulation that the Review and Herald Publishing House is not a denominational institution, and that the denomination as such has no rights in the institution; and the secular papers have taken up and have spread the report.

Some of our brethren feel anxious about such declarations, and desire to know what such rumors mean.

We take this opportunity of saying that the Review and Herald publishing house is truly and distinctly a Seventh-day Adventist Publishing House. For more than fifty years it has existed for the supreme purpose of fostering every branch of work connected with the third angel’s message. It has ever been loyal to the work of God; has stood by the General Conference in every emergency in the past; has fostered every new institution that has been started, to a greater or less extent, in nearly every part of the world, and has exerted a strong influence in behalf of the financial backing of the denomination.

While there is the third angel’s message to proclaim, or a lost world to be warned, we trust the Review and Herald shall stand at the front of the battle, doing valiant service for Prince Emmanuel. Though it has met with a great loss in its recent fire, the institution still lives, and the work it was designed to do will be carried on with renewed vigor.

What this denomination stands for, the Review and Herald represents. Wherever there is battle for right, and truth, and God, there we purpose to throw our interests and stake our all. This institution is "our institution." It does not belong to one man, nor to a set of men, but was founded by the denomination in its infancy, and to the denomination it shall ever be a true and humble servant.

Let us remember that the Review and Herald is distinctly God’s institution for advancing the third angel’s message.

Review and Herald Board.