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Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.

WANTED.— A single man competent to take charge of a laundry; must be well recommended. Address New England Sanitarium, Melrose, Mass.

WANTED.— To exchange a 24 x 30 ft. house, 10 x 12 ft. summer house, barn, shop, two chicken houses, a lot 44 x 150 ft., for small place suitable for chickens and gardening near good market and church school farther south. Address Geo. W. Bowen, Sioux Falls, S. D.

FOR SALE.— Ten acres good land, four miles from Pittsford, Mich., across road from S. D. A. church and church school. House and good barn, wood house, etc., cistern and excellent well water; peach orchard and small fruits. Telephone line to all parts of the country. Address A. J. Cook, Osseo, Mich., R. F. D.

To Absent Members

All non-resident members of the Amery, Wis., church are requested to report immediately. A year's absence without reporting necessitates the removal of the name from the church book. Address the church clerk, Mrs. Mary A. Kinney, Amery, Wis.

Notice!

By C. W. Hardesty

A SCHOOL for canvassers was opened at Boone, Iowa, December 29, and will continue six weeks. It is hoped that this school will be attended by many who have responded to the earnest appeals from the Lord in behalf of this important branch of the work for this time. Come prepared to study for the necessary preparation to perform the Lord's work successfully. C. W. HARDESTY.

Publications Wanted

N. B.—Attention has been repeatedly called to the necessity of having papers properly wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. Cover papers well, so that they will be clean when received. Some have paid double the postage necessary, while others have forwarded literature by express when it would have been cheaper to send it by mail, at four ounces for one cent.

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—

R. T. Harrod, Checotah, I. T., periodicals and tracts.

J. W. Buckland, Box 218, Great Bend, Kan., REVIEW, Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts.

E. W. Bretz, 1537 S. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo., literature on the Sabbath question; such as, “The Sabbath in the New Testament,” “Elihu on the Sabbath,” “The Fall of Babylon,” “An Open Letter and Answer,” “Sound an Alarm.”

Michigan Central
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SPLENDID TRAIN SERVICE

In both directions, in connection with Boston & Albany and New York Central, between CHICAGO and DETROIT, and NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON, and Eastern points, with finest equipment of Through Sleeping, Dining and Buffet-Library Cars.

All day trains stop five minutes at Falls View, directly overlooking Niagara Falls. Send 4 cents postage for NIAGARA FALLS ILLUSTRATED.

O. W. RUGGLES, Gen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agent, CHICAGO

Holiday Number of Present Truth

THE holiday number of the Present Truth, London, is filled with excellent articles dealing directly with the principal phases of the message. “His Glorious Appearing,” “The Day of Judgment,” “Signs of the Times,” “The Resurrection of the Dead,” and “The World to Come,” are some of the leading titles. The paper has a neat cover, which gives it an attractive appearance. We hope now the workers will be successful in the effort to circulate one hundred thousand of this issue.

The Review for 1904

By Editor

THE last issue of the REVIEW for 1902 was dated December 30. That issue of the paper was not all mailed when, on the evening of the day when it was dated, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1902, the Review and Herald printing plant at Battle Creek, Mich., was wholly destroyed by fire. The year since that time has brought changes which were not anticipated in our forecast of the REVIEW for 1903. Before the end of the first quarter the senior editor, Elder Uriah Smith, was suddenly taken from us by death, after more than fifty years of faithful labor in connection with the office. The headquarters of the denomination have been removed to this city, and the paper, which for nearly half a century was printed in Battle Creek, now bears the imprint of Washington, D. C. And in this experience we have seen such marked evidences of God's guiding hand as have not been revealed in the history of this movement for many years. Now we are brought to the beginning of another year, and we do not know what it may have in store for us, but we have the utmost confidence in our divine Leader and in his gracious purpose concerning this advent message, and this assurance delivers us from fearfulness. The Lord himself is directing this advent movement, and he is abundantly able to bring it to a successful issue.

We have by no means realized our ideal for the REVIEW during the past year, although we have honestly endeavored to make it a channel of information and instruction concerning the message for this time, and an inspiration to loyal and faithful service in extending a knowledge of this truth. Whatever measure of success has attended our efforts is already known to our readers, and the record can not be changed.

The coming year is certain to be one of interest and importance in the further development and progress of this work, and every lover of this message will desire to keep in the closest touch with its advancement. We do not see how this can well be done without reading the REVIEW. It will contain the reports of progress from all parts of the world. It will be the mouthpiece for presenting plans for aggressive efforts. It will seek to be the exponent to the people of the best thoughts of those who are bringing from the treasure house of the Word things new and old. Above all else, it will continue to contend earnestly for "the faith once delivered unto the saints," and to give the trumpet a certain sound in behalf of those special truths which have been the foundation of this advent platform for more than half a century. We purpose that the paper shall be a messenger of light, whose weekly visits shall bring help and blessing to all its readers.

We wish all the members of the REVIEW family a happy new year, a year whose happiness shall grow out of loyal devotion to God and his work, and we invite their hearty co-operation in our efforts to enlarge our circle of readers during 1904.

Literature Circulation in Newfoundland

The Newfoundland Mission field, with one small church, and no ordained minister or elder, reports the circulation of half a million pages of literature during the present year. This is equal to two pages and a half to every man, woman, and child in the colony. The tract campaign is being pushed there, and the Young People’s Society is doing a good work in selling books.

Whisky: Parables, Poems, Facts, and Figures

A VARIETY of matter upon different phases of the temperance question has been brought together in the forty-eight-page tract entitled “Whisky: Parables, Poems, Facts, and Figures.” The regular price of this tract is $3.50 per hundred, but to close out the edition it is now offered for ninety cents a hundred, or seven dollars a thousand. This is an unusual opportunity. Address D. E. Scoles, Washburn, Mo.

A Reader Supports Missions

“A READER of the REVIEW”—a sister not a member of our church, she says—sends five hundred dollars for the annual offering for missions. She adds: “I send it to you because I approve most heartily of the way your people raise money for the Lord’s work.” It is to be understood as an appreciation of the simple Scriptural plan of money raising for the cause of God. Such a gift is very cheering in view of the needs in the mission fields.

The January Sabbath School Worker

THE January number of the Sabbath School Worker, the first issue of the new series, presents an attractive appearance, and is filled with matter which will be of interest and help to Sabbath-school teachers and workers. The editor of the Worker, Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, is favorably known through her work as corresponding secretary of the Sabbath-School Department, and through the columns of the paper she will be able to do still stronger work in the interest of the Sabbath-schools. We commend the Worker to the attention of our readers.

To Every Kindred

We have received the following suggestion from Brother A. Smith, of Grandville, Mich., whose name is familiar to many of the old readers of the REVIEW: “The third angel’s message, like the first and the second, is to be carried not only to every nation and tongue, but also to every kindred as well. This evidently means that every one who receives the message is in duty bound to send or take it to his own kindred. If all Seventh-day Adventists would do this in the matter of distributing the Capital and Labor number of The Signs of the Times, it would through this agency alone result in the distribution of at least half a million copies. But the distribution need not necessarily be limited to one’s kindred, but may include friends and acquaintances also. Let the watchword all along the line be, ‘To every kindred.’”

Faith and Hope from Lemhi Valley

From the Lemhi Valley church, of Baker, Idaho, there comes to us a letter filled with a spirit of faith and good cheer. Writing by order of the church, the secretary says:—

We feel that we, too, would like to have you know that although we are out here in the mountains, a small young church, we have been watching with intense interest — yea, with prayers and entreaties for you all — the wonderful and conspicuous manifestations of God's providences in the way you have been led, and we rejoice with deep and hearty gratitude at the developments and growing convictions that erelong we shall certainly see the crowning struggle and the final glorious victory of the world's message as it goes to the ends of the earth in this generation.

We feel encouraged to believe that many of our churches throughout the field entertain the same hope concerning the speedy triumph of this advent movement.

It Helps in Three Ways

By P. T. Magan

All contributions for the Missionary Acre Fund should be sent to P. T. Magan, Berrien Springs, Mich. Remember that money thus donated assists three most worthy and important enterprises: it assists in clearing the debt from the Battle Creek College property, that it may be secured for the Medical Missionary College; it assists in the establishment of the new Review and Herald at Washington; and it helps to build the Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs.

P. T. MAGAN.