p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 51. (12/23/1909)

Earlier text: Summary of Magazine Sales for November, 1909

Prof. Griggs Visits Jamaica

This week Prof. F. Griggs, of the Educational Department, sails for Jamaica, West Indies, to attend the annual meeting of that conference, and to visit the West Indian Union training-school. He will doubtless return by way of Cuba.

N. P. Nelson and Wife Sail for Europe

By Editor

We omitted in September to record the departure of N. P. Nelson and wife, of North Dakota, who sailed for Europe, to engage in study, and then to assist in the work in the Scandinavian Union Conference, as recommended by the last General Conference.

Special Ministerial Course

We learn from Prof. H. R. Salisbury that applications are coming in for the special ministerial course opening early in January at the Foreign Mission Seminary. The calls from home and foreign fields are unceasing, and there should be a good force of younger ministerial laborers getting the benefit of this special course in preparation for stronger service.

The Need for More Bible Workers

By Editor

One of our Eastern conferences is asking the General Conference to assist in finding a Bible worker for a place of special need. The old-time Bible worker is not so easily found now as some years ago. The teaching and nursing and periodical work have called for young women in large numbers. But surely our conferences ought to be training more Bible workers. They are needed in the efforts to be made in the cities.

Morning Watch for 1910

THE new year is almost here. Do you want to make the coming year a year of prayer? The Morning Watch Calendar will help you. This dainty little booklet is procured from your conference and Missionary Volunteer secretary, or the Missionary Volunteer Department. Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. Many are supplying their friends with this daily reminder as a New-year's memento. The price is five cents. Envelopes for remailing furnished on request.

An Evangelist Commends the Youth’s Instructor

ONE of our workers recently called upon a well-known evangelist in one of the Western States and presented him with a copy of the special Thanksgiving number of the REVIEW, and in addition to receiving a donation for missions, she gratefully accepted the following compliment paid by the evangelist to Review and Herald publications, especially the Youth’s Instructor: “Why! this is published by the Review and Herald press. I consider that the Review and Herald print the best literature on earth. I have ten dollars’ worth of their literature over there [pointing to a large bundle]. I intend to distribute these papers to the new converts to-night. Wife, get her a copy of the papers we have there. [She handed me a copy of the Temperance number of the Instructor.] I consider that the best thing on temperance I ever saw, and I want the converts to get the benefit of reading it.” This evangelist distributed over a thousand copies of the Temperance number of the Instructor, on the last evening of his revival services, to as many new converts, and in his closing prayer he prayed for the Seventh-day Adventists.

In Washington

THE week of prayer, just closed as we go to press, was a very blessed experience in Washington. There are eight churches and companies, and one or two groups, in the District of Columbia Conference territory, and, so far as we have heard, it has been a time of rich blessing and victory in all. The keynote has seemed to be the definite surrender to service and the peace and rest of cleansing from sin within while battling with trial and temptation without. Never have we known the closer searching of the Holy Spirit to lay bare specific hindrances and sins, in order that the King's highway may be cleared. In our Review Office, as all the workers have come together to seek for definite victory and for the experience that is especially needed where many are crowded together in busy strenuous work-rooms, the Lord has so blessed that we praise and magnify his name. The Foreign Mission Seminary and Sanitarium church bear like testimony. We expect to hear of similar experiences wherever the week has been observed. The week of prayer is more than a merely formal appointment. It is of the Lord, and on such occasions the waters are troubled for the special healing of the soul. Now let it be the entrance upon a year of more earnest prayer and service. The year 1910 must have many trials and opportunities awaiting us. God will help us.

No Money

By D. W. Reavis

BEING without money has proved to be a greater blessing to a number of our sisters whose husbands are not interested in the faith than an abundance of money could possibly have been. Some have been situated financially so they could not pay for the “good old REVIEW,” and had for some time been without it. It has seemed they were too poor. Some complained about it, and wondered why it was that the Lord permitted it when they were so devoted to him and his special work for this time. They could see the great need of means in all departments of work, and longed to answer some of the calls for money to help on the work in the mission fields. They had not learned, however, that the Lord needed their individual service among their neighbors more than he needed their money, and that their need of money with which to secure the things they so much desired would be as strong an inducement to get out among their neighbors as he could furnish them with.

Some have learned this lesson of late. Even women who have children and many household duties have found an hour or two each week that they have devoted to calling upon their neighbors with some of our publications, especially Life and Health, and besides selling the journal and securing profit enough to pay for their own subscription to all our journals, they had something left for donations, found many opportunities for doing missionary work, and were spiritually benefited themselves.

Let others who have no money, prove the Lord in this way, and see if he will not reward their efforts far beyond their expectations. The lack of money may prove a great blessing not only to the one in need, but to others who may receive benefit on account of these believers' needs. D. W. REAVIS.