REPORT FROM SWITZERLAND.
By John Nevins Andrews
WE are still actively engaged in the preparation of matter for our paper, in the reading of proof, and in the transformation of a considerable portion of what is printed in the SIGNES into tracts. This work, with the various duties associated with it, demands the closest attention and the most diligent labor, but it gives little time at present to report for the REVIEW. Those who read our paper will judge for themselves as to the work bestowed upon it, but we can say in truth that no pains have been spared to make it as instructive, correct, and inviting as possible. We believe that in this work God has been our helper. I hope that our circumstances will soon be so changed that I can be free to give myself mainly to the preaching of the word of God. This is my great desire. Bro. Bourdeau is in southern France, and is so much crowded with work to meet the demands upon him for preaching, that he earnestly asks that some one from Switzerland should go to his assistance. I know not that any one can be sent. It is my desire also that help may be sent us, who can take charge of the proof-reading, mailing, accounts, and other matters connected with the publication of the paper and of the tracts. I am willing to labor in this kind of work if this be the will of God. In fact, I have found God's blessing in this labor, and so I am cheered in its performance. But I wish as far as possible to give myself to the work of preaching, and this at present is mostly out of the question. With the utmost effort that I can make, I have hitherto hardly kept up with the duties connected with the paper and the tracts. It was my wish for several reasons to publish our paper from time to time as we could, and not regularly each month. This would enable me to take time for other work, and if at any time we lacked money we should not be compelled to get in debt. But our friends here said that this manner of publishing would destroy, or at least much injure, the influence of our paper, and that we must not go upon that plan. They could speak something from the lesson of experience, which had weight to my mind. So we undertook a monthly journal. There are many tokens that our paper is doing good. It ought to be advertised extensively in the best French journals of Europe. But though we have not yet advertised at all, our paper is called for by strangers distant from this city. I find God's blessing all the time. But I see no time to write reports, and it seems to me that I cannot say much that will interest the friends in America by speaking of the kind of work that fills all my time and consumes all my strength. But I can say that God is here with us, and that is the best of all. J. N. ANDREWS. Bâle, Suisse, Nov. 16, 1876.