p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 51. (12/24/1903)

Earlier text: Southern Sanitarium Pledges

Michigan Central

“The Niagara Falls Route.”

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

Solid Through Trains via Battle Creek

SOLID THROUGH TRAINS BETWEEN CHICAGO, BUFFALO, N. Y., NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA “VIA BATTLE CREEK.” Also to BOSTON, and the important business centres of CANADA and NEW ENGLAND. For Information, Time Tables, etc., apply to any Agent of the Company, or to GEO. W. VAUX, Asst. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. CHICAGO.

Printing and Mailing the Review

By Editor

It may be of interest to our readers to know the particulars concerning the time of printing and mailing our regular weekly edition of the REVIEW. As has already been stated, we do not have the facilities in our present temporary quarters for doing our own presswork, but have it done for us at one of the printing offices in the city. Of course we do not wish them to do this work for us on the Sabbath, and they do not run their office on Sunday. It would be altogether too early, and would interfere seriously with our plans, to send the paper to press on Friday, and it follows that Monday morning is the earliest time practicable to begin to print the paper. The mailing begins on Tuesday morning, the papers for the conferences just east of the Rocky Mountains being sent out first. All the papers are mailed as quickly as is possible after they are printed, with the purpose to reach all the subscribers east of the Rocky Mountains before the following Sabbath. After we have built our own printing plant, as we hope to do next season, we can go to press one day earlier, and we shall thus be able to serve our subscribers better. In the meantime we shall do the best we can under the circumstances. The fact that the paper is dated on Thursday, instead of Tuesday as formerly, does not make any difference in the time of mailing. We could not go to press any earlier if the paper was dated on Tuesday.

Adventist Missionaries in Japan

In giving the number of missionaries laboring in Japan under the direction of the different denominations, the Missionary Review of the World places six to the credit of the Seventh-day Adventists.

Order the Year Book Early

REMEMBER to send early order for the forthcoming Year Book and denominational directory (price 25 cents) to your conference tract society, or to the General Conference, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

Circulation of the Special Signs

By Editor

On page 20 will be found a detailed statement concerning the circulation of the special number of the Signs, giving the number ordered by each conference up to December 8. We are sure that it will be studied with much interest.

Sabbath-School Lesson Synopsis

By Editor

THE synopsis of this quarter’s Sabbath-school lessons, which will be found on page 21, was furnished too late to be inserted in the Lesson Quarterly, and is printed in this paper with the suggestion that it can be made the basis of the review lesson on Sabbath, December 26.

New Evangelistic Workers in Syracuse

BROTHER J. R. SCOTT of Syracuse, N. Y., and Brother George A. Stevens, who was for a time connected with the work of the Bible Training School in New York City, have now entered upon evangelistic work in this city. Our workers are finding many open doors, and the outlook is most encouraging.

New Physicians at Iowa Sanitarium

Dr. J. Edgar Colloran, of Chicago, who occupies a place on the faculty of the Northwestern University and of the American Medical Missionary College, has been elected physician-in-chief of the Iowa Sanitarium; and Dr. B. E. Fullmer, who is now taking post-graduate work in the East, has been chosen as associate physician.

Forwarding the Annual Missions Offering

CHURCH leaders should promptly forward the annual offering for missions to their conference treasurer, so that the offering may be available for work. Isolated believers will of course join in this special gift for the regions beyond, and should send to the local conference office, where convenient, or to the Treasurer of the General Conference, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

Elihu on the Sabbath in the Toronto World

IN the issue of the Toronto World for December 9 there appeared, without any abridgment, the matter contained in the tract, “Elihu on the Sabbath,” occupying nearly four columns of the paper, which has a circulation of twenty-three thousand copies. One of the local brethren met the expense of publishing the truth in this way, and Brother G. B. Thompson writes that “it is doing good, quickly, as we know already.” There may be a suggestion for others in this experience.

A New Church Organized

A CHURCH of fifty-one members has just been organized in this city, and now holds regular services in a hall at the corner of 12th and U Streets, N. W. Brother L. C. Sheafe is in charge of this congregation, and is conducting a series of meetings in the same hall. There is a good attendance at the Sunday evening services, and additions to this church may be expected. This new church is composed of former members of the first church, and others who have recently accepted the message.

Sabbath School Worker

By Editor

WE hope the Sabbath School Worker will reach most of the schools subscribing to it by next Sabbath, and reach all in time to provide help in teaching the lessons for January 2. The following numbers will be issued earlier. The many schools not on the lists should certainly send an order to their conference office at once. Price in clubs of two or more to one address, 25 cents a year. Single copy: 35 cents a year. Review and Herald Publishing Association, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

Sunday Evening Services in the Masonic Temple

THE special Sunday evening services in the Masonic Temple in this city have opened with an encouraging outlook. It was estimated that between three hundred and four hundred were present at the first meeting, and our workers are becoming acquainted with many who have an interest to hear the truth. From fifteen thousand to twenty thousand copies of an outline of each address are circulated in the city, and the truth is thus brought to the attention of many who do not attend the meetings. The daily papers give brief reports of the services.

A Note From the Field

IN response to the invitation extended to the workers in the field to assist the publishers in their efforts to increase the circulation of this paper, Elder William Covert, of Wisconsin, writes as follows:—

I am very much in favor of enlarging the circulation of the REVIEW AND HERALD, and know that there are very many of our people who do not take this good paper. When I have talked with them about it, they usually speak of the cost, but I presume that the greater difficulty is the want of interest. Years ago when companies were raised up, the ministers who did the work were quite anxious to have every family take the REVIEW AND HERALD, and they worked hard to bring this about. In those times almost all our people took the denominational paper. . . . I do not believe that any of our publications, or all of them together, could take the place of the REVIEW AND HERALD. . . .

I have been reading the REVIEW AND HERALD for about thirty-five years, and scarcely an issue has come from the press that I have not perused, and of course I could not afford to do without this good paper. I endeavor to impress our people with its great value, and shall continue to do this. . . .

I will co-operate with the management of the REVIEW AND HERALD to the best of my ability in getting every family in the conference where I labor to subscribe for the paper. It does keep its readers in touch with the advancing work as no other paper can possibly do. The very nature of its reports is such that every Seventh-day Adventist in the world should have this paper all the time. I know they are losing a great deal of that which the Lord desires them to have by not taking the paper.

We greatly appreciate the hearty spirit of co-operation shown in this letter, and ask our laborers and our people generally to give its statements careful consideration.