p. 15 | Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 2. (1/13/1903)

Earlier text: A Visitor Embraces the Adventist Message

Silent Messengers

By E. R. Palmer

Our Books, Tracts and Periodicals

E. R. PALMER Editor

Canvassing Work in Great Britain

The latest reports from Great Britain show that there are now seventy regular canvassers in the field selling books, and one hundred and forty-three selling The Present Truth and Good Health. They are selling about one thousand dollars’ worth of books each week, and thirty-two thousand copies of the papers. All these workers, except twelve or fifteen from America, have been recruited from their small constituency of less than one thousand members. How many workers would we have in America if our proportion were the same?

Increasing Prosperity

By Editor

We regret that there are so many blank spaces in our summary for November; yet we rejoice that there are so many evidences of increasing prosperity.

Our Foreign Papers

By Editor

The next issue of the German, Swedish, and Danish-Norwegian papers will be ready soon, preparations for the same being now well under way. These will be illustrated papers, half the original size. Provision for the regular publication of these papers is being made, and will be announced later.

The First Tract

By E. R. Palmer

Every Seventh-day Adventist should read the first tract in the special series, and then give a genuine Adventist lift in circulating it. The following outline will indicate its scope and importance: —

WE WOULD SEE JESUS

The Name of Jesus.

We Would See Him, for We Love Him.

Yet We Would Not Now See Him as He WAS.

No; We Would See Him as He IS.

We Would See Him Coming in the Clouds.

And We Shall Be Like Him.

THE SCRIPTURAL FOUNDATION OF THIS BLESSED HOPE

Christ has been here on earth once, and he has promised to come again.

The second advent of Christ is clearly foretold in the Old Testament.

Christ's coming will be personal, in the clouds of heaven, and every eye shall see him. He will come with all the holy angels, who will then gather the saints.

Only those who love and prepare for his appearing will then rejoice and be saved.

The righteous are then taken up to meet Christ in the clouds, who takes them to the city, New Jerusalem, which he has prepared for the saints.

All the living wicked will also see Christ, but with anguish, when he comes in glory, and will then be destroyed.

He Will Come for His Own.

A Glorious Climax of the Plan of Salvation.

Then Shall the Elect Be Gathered.

The Goodly Land.

The Place of Gathering.

We Must Be There.

EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS.

Send in your orders, brethren, and give this tract the great circulation which it merits. We regret exceedingly the delay caused by the destruction of our office; but no one will fail to appreciate the situation, and surely all will work harder because of it.

The next two tracts, “Signs of Our Times,” and “The Gospel Remedy for Present Day Isms,” are in the hands of the printers, and will soon be ready. No definite statement can be made this week concerning the fourth tract, “What Do These Things Mean?” Push the others in their order, and watch for further announcements.

All the tracts are sixteen pages. Price, one cent. E. R. Palmer.

An Unusual and Important Appeal

By Editor

It is not often that we invite all our people to render assistance in providing a place of worship for a local congregation. It certainly ought not to be done under any ordinary circumstances. Of this we are fully aware, and we have not departed from the usual method of procedure in such cases without giving the question careful consideration.

At the recent session of the council of the General Conference Committee, our work in Washington, D. C., was considered, and a committee was appointed to inquire into the circumstances, and to report upon the advisability of rendering assistance to the church recently organized there in their effort to secure a house of worship. In view of the fact that Washington is the national capital, and that influences of great importance center there, the brethren felt that it would be for the best interest of our work as a whole to open and maintain there a better place of worship than the local church could provide without some outside help. For this reason the committee recommended, and the council voted, that the matter be presented to our people, with a clear statement of the case, and that they be invited to help in establishing a suitable memorial for the work in the nation's capital.

The pictures on the first page, in connection with Brother Washburn's statement and appeal on page 12, will place the whole matter before our readers in an intelligent way. We hope there will be a liberal response to this call. Remittances may be made to H. M. Mitchell, treasurer of the General Conference, Battle Creek, Mich., stating definitely the purpose, or to George W. Palmer, treasurer of the Atlantic Union Conference, South Lancaster, Mass. Due acknowledgment will be made through the columns of the Review of all money received in response to this call, and the fund will be kept open until all have had an opportunity to act. Cash is greatly preferred, but pledges will be received.

The following is a partial list of subscriptions already received: —

A. G. Daniells and wife, $20.00; R. A. Hart, 20.00; I. H. Evans, 10.00; M. M. Ashley and wife, 5.00; D. W. Reavis, 5.00; J. D. Peterson, 10.00; W. W. Prescott and wife, 10.00; S. H. Lane and wife, 15.00; H. H. Burden, 3.00; G. W. Counts and wife, 2.00; Wm. Voelker, 1.00; Hattie Dawson, 1.00; C. B. Childs, 1.00; L. McCoy, 10.00; M. J. Cornell, 5.00; H. W. Hearns, 5.00; T. C. Kane, 1.00; A friend, 1.00; Mrs. D. E. Walker, 1.00; Mary Fry, 2.00; Byrd White, 2.00; A friend, 1.00; Mina Harding, .50; T. P. Butcher, 1.00; J. L. Smith, 1.00; F. Holmden, 5.00; J. L. Rice, 1.00; Master Henry Shedd, .25; Mr. and Mrs. Burnett, 2.00; H. H. Page, 1.00; Mrs. R. E. Stewart, 1.00; Bessie Harding, .50.

Announcements

Some important announcements are made on the fifteenth page of this issue.

Brethren A. G. Daniells and W. W. Prescott left Battle Creek last week to attend an important meeting of the Southern Union Conference Committee at Graysville, Tenn. After this meeting they will spend a few days at Nashville in a council in the interest of the publishing work at that place.

The Battle Creek church has not been able to hold services in the Tabernacle since the fire, as the building was heated from the Review and Herald printing plant. Through the courtesy of the pastor, Rev. J. D. Crouch, services were held in the Baptist church in the city the first Sabbath after the fire. Last Sabbath the church met in the various buildings accessible in the west end, services being held in the Office chapel, in the Sanitarium East, West, and South Halls, and in other places. Probably this arrangement will have to be continued for several weeks, inasmuch as the boilers formerly used are in an imperfect condition.

Farewell Meetings After the Office Fire

While the calamity which so suddenly terminated the work of the Office brought with it the necessity of unanticipated farewells to the familiar life and associations of the place, it was not without taking counsel together and seeking divine guidance that the employees separated to take up new work in other spheres of activity. Three general meetings of the employees were held after the fire, at which they listened to words of counsel and good cheer from those standing at the head of the publishing work. Immediate care was taken to provide for any who might be in positions of financial embarrassment and to furnish employment for all who desired it in other lines of work. Farewell meetings were also held by the employees of the book-bindery department, and by those connected with the foundry. These were occasions for reviewing the past, and gathering hope and resolution for the future. The great majority of the Review and Herald family will, we believe, remain connected with the cause which the Office represented, and many will, we trust, find spheres of greater usefulness in the work than they had known before.

EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR VIEWS OF THE WASHINGTON, D. C., CHURCH