A WORD TO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST WOMEN.
By Mrs. M. C. Du Bois
I WONDER how many of our dear sisters miss the Home department from the REVIEW AND HERALD. I know some do, and really desire to see that page restored. Do you realize that we, the women of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, are responsible for the removal of the Home page from our paper? In a conversation with Brother Jones upon this subject, during the recent Conference session, he told me that that page would be restored just as soon as the Seventh-day Adventist women would furnish original matter to fill it. He also said that for a year that department was ably filled from our ranks, and was equal, if not better, than that of any other paper. When contributions decreased, the editors kindly appealed to us, asking for original contributions; but we soon grew weary, and laid down our pens. Now, dear sisters, are you satisfied to see the REVIEW go abroad without an interesting and instructive Home page? I, for one, wish that department restored, and am willing to aid what little I can. Who will do likewise? Every week as I turn the leaves of the REVIEW, I feel that something is missing. Are there not many who feel the same? As I looked over that large body of women at the General Conference, I thought, Is it possible these women are not capable of filling this page with wholesome reading-matter? I cannot believe they are not. What then is the matter? Some will say, “I cannot write for publication.” How do you know until you try? Your experience may be just what some wife or mother needs. I was frequently encouraged and comforted by reading the experiences and thoughts of others, in that department; and I do not believe that I am the only one who was thus helped. Do the best you can. That is all our editors ask. They told us that if there was only one line of real value, that one line would be used, and that one line may be just the help some tempted souls need to lead them to Christ. * Perhaps some may say, “I have not time to read, to say nothing about writing for those who have plenty of time to read and write.” I know there are many busy, hard-working women in our ranks, and this is especially true of those living on the farm, where “woman’s work is never done;” but to such I say, If God would have you write, you can find the time by leaving some unnecessary work undone. I believe there are mothers in our ranks who could write helpful, hopeful, cheering articles for the Home department if they would but use the talent God has lent them. Who will be first to aid in restoring the Home page to the REVIEW AND HERALD? Talk with the Lord about it, dear sisters, and if He wishes you to aid in this work, put it off no longer. True, we may not do much, but let us be willing to do what little we can to encourage others.