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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 44.

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From a Letter to a Mother

I SUPPOSE by this time you have returned to your home. I regret so much that I was not able to see you again. I think you should subscribe for the REVIEW, because you would get so much to encourage you. You know it is our church paper, and it is just like a letter from home. I could not think of getting along without the REVIEW. I believe that you owe it to yourself to have this paper. I know that you are anxious to send literature to those who do not have the message for this time, but I feel that you need this for your own sake and for the sake of your family. It is right and proper for us to do for others, but we must take the spiritual nourishment for ourselves in order that we may be able to help others; and the reports from the laborers in the home field and in the mission fields would so cheer and comfort you that I believe you would be better able to bear the responsibilities and burdens that come to you.
And you must not forget that you can use the REVIEW among your neighbors, especially on account of its Home department, with general matter in which any mother would be interested. I think that any Christian woman would be interested in the mission reports and in the Home department. So from a missionary standpoint you should have the REVIEW.
I remember what you said about your peculiar trials, and I think it is your duty, just as far as you can without the sacrifice of principle, to please your husband. He does not look at things as we do, and he cannot appreciate your viewpoint; but it is right that you should just as far as possible make yourself agreeable and companionable and helpful. Go out with him where you can go without sacrificing your conscience or your influence for good over others, and invite friends to your home who will be agreeable to him, as far as consistent.
I think of you often, and I wish to assure you of my sympathy. If there is anything at any time that I can say or do to help and comfort you, please be free to write me. MRS. C. C. L.