THE special season of prayer upon which our people have now entered should be a time of sowing for future blessings as well as a time of reaping present blessings. With a whole people united in prayer, we know that the blessing of God will follow; but the whole people can not do the work of the individual; and no individual can wisely depend upon the whole people’s influence for the individual blessing which he must have. There is power and blessing in united prayer; but the power and blessing come to those who are united in it. Each must believe for himself, surrender for himself, and receive for himself. He who does this, and, with his face “set as a flint Zionward,” goes on from triumph to triumph, is sowing the seed for a harvest of future blessing, rich and abundant. The blessings received now, the experiences gained now, must not be forgotten, or folded away as if to be kept for another occasion one year hence. This season of prayer will have accomplished nothing for us unless we put into practical use what it brings to us. And unless we do that, we are not keeping pace with the message. It is a fact of serious import, and should lead us to make the strongest determination to go on from this landmark in the strength of God to do his bidding and to share in the victory soon to be.
Foreign Missionaries’ Notice
By E. R. Palmer
We take much pleasure in announcing to our foreign mission fields that the Review and Herald, Pacific Press, and Southern Publishing associations have heartily entered into an arrangement for furnishing all the periodicals which they publish to foreign fields at domestic rates.
Although this will mean some loss to the publishers on account of foreign postage, yet the respective Boards of these houses have expressed themselves as fully in favor of making this rate in order that our workers abroad, who are sacrificing daily for the truth’s sake, may not have to pay more for these periodicals than do their brethren who remain at home.
We trust that this announcement will lead many workers in foreign fields to subscribe for these papers, and to secure subscriptions for them.
GEN. CONF. PUBLISHING DEPT.,
E. R. PALMER, Secretary.
Brother Hansen in Washington
WE have been glad to meet Brother L. A. Hansen in Washington. He has spent some days in counsel with the General Conference departments regarding the campaign in behalf of our sanitarium enterprises.
Annual Offering for Missions
By Editor
THIS paper will reach some of our readers during the week of prayer. We pray that it is proving a week of blessing. And we trust the annual offering for missions, to be taken next Sabbath, may be the largest in our history.
Subscribe to the Review
Will not every reader of the Review make a special effort to persuade every Sabbath-keeping family not now taking the paper to become a subscriber? It is the weekly chronicle of the onward march of the third angel's message in all lands.
College Building at Watford
WE learn from the British Missionary Worker that work on their college building at Watford, north of London, is progressing well. At last report, two thirds of the brickwork was done. Our people in Great Britain are carrying on a vigorous “Christ’s Object Lessons” campaign to provide the funds.
Appointments and Travel Notes
LAST week Elder K. C. Russell was in Chicago, filling appointments. Elder G. B. Thompson is spending the week of prayer with the Battle Creek church. Elder F. M. Wilcox left Washington last week for the West, planning to spend some time at College View and Boulder, and calling at other points.
Meetings and Councils in the Levant
FROM Alexandria, Egypt, Elder L. R. Conradi sends a postal-card reporting profitable meetings and councils in the Levant. He was just starting for Massaua, on the Red Sea, where he and Dr. F. W. Vasenius and wife were to disembark for the land trip to the Abyssinian border.
German Missions Number
The Missions number of our German paper, the Christlicher Hausfreund, of College View, is very nearly a duplicate of our own special. It has twenty-four pages of the same illustrations and reading-matter. Our German brethren are using it in behalf of missions.
Miss May Cole Sails for Bermuda
On the eleventh, from New York, Miss May Cole sailed for the Bermuda Islands, to engage in teaching and Bible work in that little island field. Miss Cole was released from the South Lancaster Academy faculty, in order that she might accept this call.