Four Suggestions by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Oct 15, 1903

Four Suggestions

By Editor

MANY of our readers, hundreds of them in fact, during the past few weeks have written to our office expressing their recognition of the Lord’s guiding hand in the recent removal of our periodicals to this city, the nation’s capital; and the hearts of the workers on these papers have been cheered and sustained, again and again, by the assurance of our people that their hearts are with us here, even though they can not be present in person. This is an evidence to us that while God is working at headquarters, he is also working with his people throughout the world, that all Israel may go forward solidly on the march together.

It is our desire that the REVIEW AND HERALD shall be a faithful “watchman on the walls of Zion;” that week by week it shall carry to our people reports of the progress of the message in all lands; that its pages shall represent clearly, and in no uncertain tone, the fundamental principles of our world-wide message; and that it shall be true to its mission, as a “watchman,” by faithfully and fearlessly directing attention to every approaching danger. Matters of vital interest from the pen of Sister White are being published each week, and no one can afford to lose these timely warnings and instructions. In order that God’s people may everywhere be in touch with his opening providences, we desire that this paper shall be placed in the hands of every Seventh-day Adventist in our ranks; and our particular object at this time is to call your attention to some of the means by which you can help to bring about this desired result.

Since we left Battle Creek, our forces have been divided, a number of the workers being left there to attend to that portion of the work which was not moved to Washington, and we find our force temporarily insufficient to do the correspondence, and other general work on our papers. Therefore, we request our people everywhere to join us, in a very definite way as indicated below, in an effort to place the REVIEW AND HERALD in every Seventh-day Adventist home.

1. Let every subscriber note carefully from the address label the date when his subscription will expire, and renew his subscription in ample time so that no numbers may be missed.

2. Let each subscriber of the REVIEW make a very definite effort to secure one new subscriber for four, eight, or twelve months.

3. Let the elder and the librarian of each church make a careful canvass of the church membership, and ascertain if each member is a subscriber to this paper, and make an earnest effort to secure subscriptions from those who do not receive it.

4. We very respectfully call the attention of our ministers to the fact that there was a time when every minister in our ranks, on visiting a church, was expected to place our periodicals, and particularly the REVIEW AND HERALD, before the church, and make an effort to secure new subscriptions. Should not that good old custom be revived? If it were, with its old-time earnestness, thousands of homes would be brightened by the visits of our church paper before the first day of January, 1904.

Dear brethren, we earnestly seek for your co-operation and practical help. Will you give it by following the suggestions given above?