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Review and Herald Publishing Assn. · Washington, D.C. · Dec 31, 1903

Three Cents a Week

By G. B. Thompson

G. B. THOMPSON

WOULD you give three cents each week to have Sister White come into your home and talk to you about the blessed truths of the third angel’s message? In times of sorrow and deep affliction, in perplexity, distress, and disappointment, would you like to have her loving counsel? In the crisis through which we as a people are now passing, would you like to have her come into your home and counsel you concerning the proper course to pursue?

Have you enough interest in the message and the messengers to give three cents each week to have several of our ablest ministers and writers come into your home each week and instruct your family concerning the vital truths of the third angel’s message?

Would you give three cents each week to have those who stand in responsible places at the head of the work, and are in touch with all the important developments of the message in the home and foreign fields, come to your home and tell you how the work is progressing in the various departments of the work, near and far off?

Would you give three cents a week to have some of the venerable, gray-headed pioneers in this message, who bore the burden in the heat of the day, make a weekly visit to your home and relate some of the stirring experiences of the early days of the message, and how God wrought in mighty power among the believers?

Would you be able, think you, to spare three cents each week if by so doing you could hear from all the faithful brethren and sisters who have left the comforts of home, bidding farewell to relatives and friends perhaps forever, to plant the standard of the truth in the “regions beyond”? Would you give three cents each week to have a letter from them, telling how the Lord was blessing them, and hastening the truth to earth’s remotest bounds?

Is it worth three cents each week to hear how the Lord is working in our various educational institutions, converting souls, and fitting up workers to carry the message to all parts of the world?

Is it worth three cents a week to you to know how the various institutions—educational, medical, printing, etc.—are prospering financially and otherwise, and to learn of the plans that are being made to build new institutions, and how you can help establish them?

Well, all this and much more can be obtained by subscribing for the REVIEW AND HERALD, which costs but three cents a week,—$1.50 a year,—and brings a weekly digest of the most important religious instruction. How any believer in the message for this time can get along without the weekly visits of this excellent paper is more than I can explain. In fact, they do not get along spiritually. I have never found a single one in my labors who was thoroughly abreast of the message who was not a reader of the REVIEW. They are more or less in the dark concerning the important movements of the work. The salvation of many depends upon their having access to this paper, and as laborers we should do our utmost to place it in every Seventh-day Adventist home.