p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 7. (2/17/1903)

England’s 1903 Naval Program

England’s naval program for 1903 includes three battle-ships, each of 18,000 tons’ displacement, which is nearly 2,000 tons more than any battle-ship yet built. The armor and the armament will also be superior to those of any other ships, and the speed of each will be nineteen knots. This action will no doubt lead to a like increase on the part of other powers ambitious for naval prestige.

The Review

By Editor

AGAIN we feel constrained gratefully to acknowledge the many interesting letters that daily come to the Office bearing messages of sympathy in our affliction, confidence in the work, and appreciation of the REVIEW. It would be a pleasure to respond to each of these encouraging communications personally would time and expense permit; but we hope that all our friends who have written us will allow us to thank them in this public way for their subscriptions to the REVIEW, for their renewals, and for their encouraging and very helpful letters.

We would like to publish the hundreds of unsolicited testimonials for the REVIEW that are coming to us nearly every week, but this would require nearly all the space in the paper from week to week. We may, however, from time to time, quote a few testimonies that differ from the majority, in order that our readers may have some conception of the estimation placed upon the REVIEW by many of its readers. The great majority say, in substance, that they cannot get along without it; that they would rather give up any other reading they have than the good old REVIEW.

We have just received a renewal from a young sister whose mother died a few days after the burning of the Office, and we take the liberty to quote a few statements from the letter which accompanied her remittance:—

“The dear one to whose address the REVIEW has been coming for over forty years passed away just one week after the fire, but you will please send the paper to the same old address, for I cannot bear a change in that respect so long as we retain the present home. I shall never forget the look of pain and surprise that came over her dear face when I told mother of the terrible calamity that had befallen the printing plant. For some time very few things had attracted her notice or seemed to interest her, but at this she exclaimed, ‘O, the dear old REVIEW! Well, the truth still lives. Remember, don’t let the subscription expire when I’m gone.’ And I never shall. Being somewhat isolated, there have been times when the REVIEW was the only Adventist friend we saw for months; and none could be more welcome. Of all our good periodicals, the REVIEW AND HERALD is the best. It fills the greatest place in the home, and for circulation among unbelievers it is read, appreciated, and has an influence, where others seem to fail.”

Since the change of the form of the REVIEW, it has been demonstrated that it is indeed a good missionary paper. It is attractive in appearance; and when people once examine it, they seem to like it. Those who have used the REVIEW in missionary racks both before and since the change of form have written us and expressed surprise that the REVIEW is taken far more since the change than before. It is now difficult to keep the racks supplied with the REVIEW, the papers are taken so rapidly.

As to the matter the REVIEW contains, one of our oldest and most prominent ministers writes:—

“While we sympathize with you and the cause generally respecting the burning of the office building, we greatly congratulate you in the apparent change in the matter in the REVIEW. With the tone that is coming into it of late, I think there will be no difficulty in increasing the subscription list.”

Certainly these appreciative words are encouraging to those who are working hard to make the paper a messenger of light, and a source of encouragement and strength to the whole people.

DEPARTMENT OF CIRCULATION.

Foreign Papers Moved to College View

By Editor

OUR foreign papers have been removed to College View, Neb., and all their exchanges should be addressed to that office.

A. G. Daniells Returns from Mexico

BROTHER A. G. DANIELLS returned last week from his visit to Mexico. He reports a profitable trip, the particulars of which he will give later.

Another Large Printing Press

By Editor

ANOTHER large printing press is being set up in our Office this week. We shall now be able to print some much-needed editions of several of our denominational books.

Report from the New York Conference

Elder A. O. Burrill spent one or two days in Battle Creek last week. He spoke encouragingly of the work in the New York Conference, where he is now laboring, and left with us a report which will appear next week.

Victoria Conference and Camp Meeting

BROTHER W. A. HENNIG writes from the Victoria Conference that they have just closed a very profitable conference and camp meeting, with a good attendance from the outside, as well as of our own people. Seventy-two tents were pitched on the grounds.

Miss Cora Blodgett in South Africa

Miss Cora Blodgett arrived at Cape Town, South Africa, Dec. 2, 1902. It was planned for her to remain in Cape Town until after the summer school, which convened December 28. Then she expected to go on to Natal, where she would have charge of the church school at Sweetwaters, near Maritzburg.

Prayer at the Review and Herald Printing Plant

In referring to the burning of the Review and Herald printing plant, the Editor and Publisher (New York) says it “was perhaps the only print-shop in existence where the day’s work was begun with prayer.” This was certainly a distinction of which we did not need to be ashamed.

Systematic Tract Distribution

PLANS have been adopted for the systematic distribution of the four new tracts in Battle Creek and vicinity. The territory has been divided between the tract society of the church and the Young People's Society, and both are taking hold of the work with enthusiasm. We shall hope to hear of definite results growing out of this effort.

Workers Needed in British Honduras

BROTHER H. C. GOODRICH makes an earnest appeal for additional workers in British Honduras. He calls especially for canvassers to enter the cities with the message. The fact that there are very few Spanish papers and religious books in the country leads a people who can read to buy readily that which is within their means. He believes that a worker could be almost self-supporting.

German East African Mission

Already one thousand five hundred dollars has been raised in the German Union Conference for the proposed German East African Mission. A company of young people is being selected to go to that field. Many will remember the young man who spent nearly two years in a German prison, because he refused to serve in the German army on the Sabbath. He will be one of the company.

The Daily Bulletin

By Editor

IT is important that those who desire to receive the Daily Bulletin during the session of the next General Conference should send in their subscriptions at once. The price is fifty cents for the session. Address your State tract society, or the Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.

The General Conference

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

Again we give formal notice to all our people that the thirty-fifth session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the city of Oakland, Cal., March 27, 1903. The session is appointed to continue until April 13. From various quarters we receive word that encouraging progress is being made in preparing for the meeting. Let all pray that this shall prove to be one of the best conferences ever held by this people.

A. G. DANIELLS, President.