p. 776 | Review and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 48. (11/26/1901)

“How to Teach the Lesson.”

By B.

IN this paper will be found the interesting sketch of the Battle Creek Sabbath-school promised last week. Next week we shall print in the same department an interesting ten-minute paper by Mrs. Ella King Sanders, entitled “How to Teach the Lesson.” We have the promise of still other papers which were read during the sessions of the Sabbath-school convention recently held in this place. B.

A Postal Card.

By A. J. B.

ONE way in which you may assist us in increasing the circulation of this paper is for you to drop us a postal, indicating thereon the number of free sample copies you can use to advantage in your neighborhood. The readers of the REVIEW are its best friends, and it is upon their assistance that we count. Please send your card to-day.

Another thing which you may do will assist us greatly. Write upon the postal the names and addresses of every Seventh-day Adventist church-member in your town who is not at present taking the REVIEW. By mailing them a number of sample copies of the paper, and by a personal call or two from you, many of these will be induced to subscribe.

It is said that “nothing succeeds like success.” That being true, the effort to give the REVIEW a still wider field of circulation is bound to succeed, since the new subscriptions are rolling in in encouraging numbers each week. May we not count upon you as ONE PERSON who stands ready to help on this good work? We await your reply. Address the editors. A. J. B.

Death of Sister Butler.

JUST after we went to press last week, a dispatch was received from Bowling Green, Fla., that Sister Butler, wife of Elder Geo. I. Butler, had fallen asleep. Her death occurred Friday, the 15th, at 3 P. M. The burial took place on Sunday, the 17th. Elders A. G. Daniells and R. M. Kilgore were present. More particulars hereafter. Meanwhile we extend sympathy to those who are made especially sad by the decease of Sister Butler, whose patient endurance of a long conflict with disease will make the realization of the blessed hope, in her case, all the more “blessed.”

Since writing the foregoing, we have received an extended obituary notice from Elder Butler, which will appear next week.

To Church Elders and Leaders.

By Mission Board

A PLAINTIVE plea for help from the African Gold Coast appears in the special Week of Prayer Department of this paper. From now on to the prayer season we shall give, in that department, some extracts from Mission Board correspondence, which we hope leaders of meetings will make use of week by week. Special articles will appear also. Please call attention to the demands for extension of the work on our frontiers, and urge all to begin at once to pray for laborers to be sent forth, and to plan for a large annual offering. The readings for the Week of Prayer and the envelopes for the offering will be sent out early in December.

MISSION BOARD.

Concerning Thanksgiving.

By A. J. B.

ELDER I. D. VAN HORN occupied the Tabernacle pulpit Sabbath, November 23, preaching a sermon on Scriptural thanksgiving, from the text Phil. 4:4–7. He was assisted in the services by Elders I. H. Evans and H. M. Mitchell. In the old dispensation the feast of ingathering was celebrated in the fall of the year, after the crops had been harvested. In respect of time, then, the American celebration of Thanksgiving day on the last Thursday in November is consistent with the Bible feast. Christians should always give thanks to our Heavenly Father for His many gifts and blessings, and there can be no objection to the proper observance of Thanksgiving day. However, instead of gratifying our appetite, we should minister to the worthy poor, that they too may have abundant reason for thanksgiving. Baptism was administered at the close of the service. A. J. B.

The Life Boat.

THE November number of the Life Boat, published at 2 and 4 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, Ill., has reached our table. As usual, it is filled with short soul-stirring sketches of experience, narrating how the speakers have been rescued from sin. Nothing is better calculated to fill a struggling, discouraged soul with hope and courage than such testimonies as these. There is a Prisoner's department, devoted to special matter for this class. The paper is issued monthly, at only 25 cents per year, which is not sufficient to meet the expense. We second every appeal to support this work.

There Are Five Tuesdays

By Editor

in December, 1901; and we find, by examining our REVIEW mailing list, that subscriptions will expire on four Tuesdays of the month. Here are the names of four subscribers (taken at random from the list) whose subscriptions expire on the 3d, 10th, 17th, and 24th of December, respectively:—

A M Baldwin — December 3d, 1901 Levi Strite — December 10th, 1901 John Schapers — December 17th, 1901 John Riley — December 24th, 1901

If your subscription to the REVIEW expires in December, 1901, you will find a renewal blank inclosed in this REVIEW. While renewing your own subscription, will you not also send us a two-months' subscription for that friend of yours? REVIEW AND HERALD.