p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 21. (4/29/1915)

The New Tent Meeting Songbook

By Frederick Griggs

FOR a long time there has been a demand from our workers in the field for a songbook especially adapted to evangelistic meetings. At the last autumn council of the General and North American Division Conferences provision was made for the publication of such a book. A large committee was appointed to make a collection of those songs which would be of greatest value in evangelistic work.

The committee at once sought help from our workers in all portions of the country. They were asked to make a list of those songs which they had found most helpful, and to make suggestions in a general way with reference to the book. There was a hearty response to this request, and the committee had no small task in selecting a limited number of songs from the hundreds offered. A very earnest effort has been made to bring out a book that will meet, to the fullest extent possible, the ideas and wishes of those in active gospel work. We believe that there has been brought together a collection of soul-winning, message-filled songs, both old and new, which will be of general use.

This new songbook will have about 128 pages, and nearly 200 songs. It is not designed that it shall in any way take the place of “Hymns and Tunes” or “Christ in Song” in our regular church and Sabbath school services. The Review and Herald Publishing Association was requested by the North American Conference Committee to publish this book, and to have it ready for circulation in time for the coming tent meeting season. The copy is now in the hands of the music typographers, and is expected to be ready for circulation about the first of June. For the benefit of those whose tent meetings are to begin before that date, the Review and Herald will supply sample pages of the book for temporary use.

The title of this new book is “Songs of Zion,” and we look for it to do a soul-saving work in the proclamation of our message. The styles of binding and prices will be announced later by the publishers. FREDERICK GRIGGS, Chairman of Committee.

Progress in the Inca Union Mission

BEGINNING April 15, a general meeting for the Inca Union Mission of South America, including Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru, was held at Lima, Peru. J. W. Westphal, president of the South American Union Conference, expected to meet with the workers at that time. Progress is reported throughout the union conference field. During the past three months the River Plate Sanitarium, in Argentina, has had a splendid patronage, and the publishing house at Buenos Aires cannot keep abreast with the demands for literature. The workers are of good courage.

The Shadow of the Bottle

By Editor

The little book “The World’s Crisis,” issued the first of the year, reached the phenomenal sale of one hundred and fifty thousand copies during the first three months of its circulation. We think this is the largest circulation ever attained by any of our denominational books in so short a time. A companion book of practically the same size and style of binding, entitled “The Shadow of the Bottle,” has been printed, and is now being sent out. This little book is a compendium of facts and incidents and pathetic appeals in behalf of the cause of temperance. It will meet with a ready sale everywhere, and will be found of great assistance in the temperance campaign. It contains 128 pages. Paper, 25 cents; cloth, 50 cents.

Remember Our Missionaries in Prayer

THE leaving of experienced workers from our mission fields for one cause or another, means much to the faithful ones left to struggle with added responsibilities. Mrs. H. R. Salisbury, in a letter dated March 1, writes from Lucknow: “Mrs. Quantock and Brother Perrin's family will soon be leaving us for the States. We shall miss them so much, especially Mrs. Quantock, who has been here twenty years, and whose experience is of great value to the work.” Let us remember in prayer our missionaries who are toiling in difficult and distant fields. As we become somewhat intimate with their experiences by reading their reports, let us mention them by name before the Lord in our secret devotions. These leave-taking experiences sever tender ties, both on leaving for and on returning from distant fields.

Elder Daniells’s Visit to the Orient

THE last letter received from Elder A. G. Daniells was written on the steamship “Asuta Maru,” on the China Sea. Brother and Sister Daniells and Professor Salisbury were en route to Hongkong to attend the general meeting to be held in the Chinese field. Brother Daniells in this letter inclosed two more reports of his visit to the Orient, making in all some half dozen intensely interesting articles, which we shall be pleased to print in the REVIEW during the next few weeks. At the China meeting, Brother Daniells will meet with Brethren Fulton and Johanson from Australia and the other brethren of the Asiatic Division for counsel regarding plans for closer cooperation between the Australian and Oriental fields in the matter of the sale of our publications. Brother Daniells expects to sail for America sometime in May, and will reach San Francisco about June 15, with the purpose of attending some of the summer camp meetings to be held in this country.

Correction Regarding D. A. Fitch

A SLIGHT correction is required in the announcement of last week stating that D. A. Fitch and wife left for Porto Rico from the Pacific Coast by boat. Instead, they are coming across the continent, visiting relatives and friends en route.