Some Special Features in the Future Make-Up of Our Church Paper
By Editor
The editors of the REVIEW have been giving careful thought during the last few weeks to the general make-up of our church paper, and studying wherein it can be made stronger and better in the fulfillment of its world-wide mission as the general church paper of the denomination. We are glad to present herewith several features which will be incorporated into the journal in the near future, and which, we believe, will materially strengthen it:— 1. Our general departments. We shall seek in these departments to deal with some of the larger and more general questions which pertain to the progress of the work. For instance, in the Religious Liberty department we shall seek to obtain reports from the various sections of North America and from other lands, telling how the movement in behalf of religious liberty is being carried forward, and calling attention to the issues which are pending in relation to our work as a people. We shall seek to strengthen each one of our departments by similar provision. 2. In addition to the excellent general variety of material which will be provided from week to week, Elder W. A. Spicer has kindly consented to begin soon a series of articles covering the leading features of our religious faith. These will be presented in Brother Spicer’s inimitable style, and made concise, comprehensive, and simple. 3. Brother C. M. Snow will begin in the near future a series of articles dealing with some of the great false religious systems of the world. Mohammedanism, Hinduism, Mormonism, hypnotism, Christian Science, theosophy, New Thought, Spiritualism, etc., will be embraced in these studies. Their aim will be to make our people intelligent with reference to the leading principles of these cults and their errors, from the standpoint of reason and the Word of God. 4. Arrangements have been completed with Mrs. C. C. Lewis to take charge of the Home and Health department beginning with our issue of July 2. We believe that this department should be a strong factor in the upbuilding of the home life. Many practical questions relating to the home and its material phases, together with the relations existing between parents and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, etc., will be considered. Sister Lewis brings to this work an experience of many years as a devoted and successful mother, as a competent teacher, and as a writer on various religious themes. 5. We propose to open in the columns of the REVIEW the Questions and Answers department, the same as was conducted by Elder Uriah Smith some years ago. Many helpful and practical questions relating to the various phases of this message, church government, Christian doctrine, duty and experience, etc., will be considered. We hope to be able to place the REVIEW in every English-speaking Seventh-day Adventist home before the close of 1914. Will you help us accomplish this purpose? The conferences are continually being called upon to release workers for the fields abroad, and the Mission Board finds ever the heartiest cooperation in this matter from conference officers; and we know the believers in the churches, much as they miss workers called away, are glad to bid them Godspeed as they go to labor for souls over the seas. Recently the Pacific Union Conference was again asked to release two valued workers, and Elder E. E. Andross, president of the union, writes to the Mission Board: “We will release Brother and Sister J. P. Casey to respond to the call from South Africa, though it will be a loss to us. We send them forth with our blessing, praying that God may make them a great help to the work there.”