p. 5 | The Danish-Norwegians and the Special Issue of the Review

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

The Danish-Norwegians and the Special Issue of the Review

By L. H. Christian

For several years in the past we have printed a special number each autumn of our Danish-Norwegian paper, the Sendebud. We have sold thousands and thousands of these, and they have been a great spiritual blessing to many readers.

We expect to publish such special numbers again—it is possible that we shall get one out later this winter. However, we shall not issue one this fall, for the reason that, as most of you know, the General Conference has made arrangements for a special number of the REVIEW AND HERALD. It is to be a Thanksgiving edition. The plan is not to sell this paper, but to give it away free to all, with a word of explanation about our world-wide mission work in foreign fields, and with the request that those who receive the paper give us something for foreign missions. I need not enter into a more detailed explanation of the plan.

Very many of the Danish-Norwegian Adventists take the REVIEW and prize it highly, and we have thought that these brethren would wish to have a share in this great mission crusade with this paper. It is because we wish you to feel free to do this, that we print no special number of the Sendebud this fall. We know that if we issued a special Sendebud, many of you would work for its circulation, and thus be deprived of assisting the foreign work through this special REVIEW.

We Adventists are of many nations and yet one nation in the Lord. We are all in a peculiar sense interested in God's cause in “the regions beyond.” The Danish-Norwegian Adventists have given liberally to the foreign fields. Let us all now unite in a steady, strong effort to use this special number of the REVIEW. Let each one be inspired by a divine enthusiasm. Why can we not circulate twice as many of this REVIEW as we ever did of a special Sendebud?

I would earnestly ask our Danish-Norwegian brethren in the Eastern States, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and Canada, as well as those in other States where we are fewer in number, to do their utmost for this special REVIEW.

L. H. CHRISTIAN.

[The facts stated in this article apply, so far as we know, to the Swedish brethren and to Sion's Vaktare, and for the same reasons as herein given there will be no special issue of that paper.—ED.]