Your ShelfYour Projects

A Great Opportunity

20%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 33.

Read the full edition

A Great Opportunity

By Editor

The August number of The Life Boat is one especially adapted for introducing the great temperance message God has given us, to the attention of leading temperance workers in other churches, the W. C. T. U., and church pastors of all denominations. A copy of this issue having fallen into the hands of the pastor of the Peoples' Congregational church, Chicago, he sent for Brother Paulson to speak to his congregation Sunday evening, saying that he wanted his people to know more of that kind of truth. This suggests the query, Are there not many other clergymen everywhere, who, if the subject were brought to their attention, would be of a similar mind?
If the leading brethren in each of our fifteen hundred churches in this country would take copies of this August Life Boat, and call on every pastor in their community, might not a work be done which would lead to results of inestimable magnitude? It would introduce for the first time thousands of ministers to our work, in an easy and unobjectionable way, and doubtless a very large number of them would speak on the subject to their congregations.
Brother Paulson writes us that if any of our people do not feel free or able to do this, if they will send him the names and addresses of all the pastors in their community, and a two-cent stamp for each, he will write each one a personal letter, and send with it a copy of this number of The Life Boat, opening up correspondence with them with a view to enlisting their interest in our principles. But we believe there are willing workers in our churches everywhere who will appreciate the value of this opportunity to get in touch themselves with the pastors, temperance workers, and other people of influence in their community. We believe they will see in it an opportunity for themselves personally, as workers in the cause of present truth.
Copies of The Life Boat may be obtained by sending to 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago.