A Valuable Little Companion.
There has come to our table just recently a little vest-pocket leather volume 5¼ x 2¾ inches. It bears on its outside the now familiar figures “1913.” It has on its title page, “Diary, Cash Book, and Memorandum, with Compendium of Information Regarding the Beginning and Growth of the Work of Seventh-day Adventists in its Different Departments. Arranged by N. Z. Town. 1913. Seventh-day Adventist General Conference, Takoma Park, D. C.” It is a valuable little volume, much more so than many of the vest-pocket diaries which are published. For instance, it has a Reminder Index of two pages covering every month and every day in the year. It takes up the work of the denomination under Evangelical Work in Non-Protestant and Heathen Lands, Publishing, Sabbath-School, Medical, Educational, and Missionary Volunteer departments, with the progress which each of these departments has made from its beginning to the present time. It gives total contributions to missions up to the close of 1911, the various presidents of the General Conference, the various secretaries, the various sessions of the General Conference, and a financial summary. It has twelve pages of maps, table of weights and measures, an interest table, antidotes for poison, help in case of accidents, with eighteen pages for cash account, pages for notes, bills receivable and payable, summaries of sales for various months, weather record, pages for memoranda, addresses, various data, and blank for every day in the year, with calendars for 1912, 1913, 1914. We have thought that we had a pretty good book of this sort, but this beats it. To tell the simple truth, we have to say it. It is an excellent little pocket companion, and it would seem as if every worker ought to have it. It may be obtained of the General Conference for 25 cents, while they last, or it can be ordered of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.