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The meeting, held in the I.O.O.F. hall, was part of a three-week series being conducted by Elder Pierson, President of the General Conference, and Elder Griffin, Pastor of the Wilmington Church. Francisco de Araujo is the director of the chorale. LA SIERRA, CALIF.--Elvin Benton, Religious Liberty Secretary of the Columbia Union Conference and a member of the Maryland Bar, attended the four-day convention of the Seventh-day Adventist Lawyers' Association held at La Sierra College, August 24 to 27. Twenty attorneys were in attendance at the meetings. STAUNTON, VA.--The principals and school-board chairmen of all the schools operated in the Potomac Conference met with officers of the conference in a special meeting to go over the working policies and conference-school relationships. Caris H. Lauda, President of the Potomac Conference, was in charge of the session. KETTERING, OHIO--Kettering Memorial Hospital was represented on Labor Day with a "fiesta" float. The Mexican motif was carried out by decorations in red, white, and green, and rang with live marimba music. WASHINGTON, D.C.--A training school for literature evangelist recruits will be held September 24 to 26 in the chapel of the Review and Herald building. Harold Otis, newly appointed Publishing Secretary of the Pennsylvania Conference, will give the sales instruction. I. W. Young, Publishing Secretary of the Columbia Union Conference, will be the director and coordinator. Anyone who is interested in canvassing should contact his local conference immediately. Official publication of the Columbia Union Confer- ence of Seventh-day Ad- ventists, 7710 Carroll Ave., ABOUT THE COVER Takoma Park, Washing- ton, D. C. 20012. The cover for this issue was prepared by the Review and Herald Art Department. Published bi-weekly by the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. 20012. Printed at the Washington College Press. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D. C. Subscription price to those who are not members of the Columbia Union Conference, $2 a year in advance. VOLUME 72, NUMBER 18 SEPTEMBER 21, 1967 By F. Donald Yost Associate Editor, Review and Herald "I BEGIN reading almost before I the cause to which you have dedi- and Sabbath Schools, of laymen and get the wrapper off," a Review reader cated your heart and life. workers, of fellow Adventists all over said not long ago. But the Review is more than Ad- the world. The Review does not do That's a natural way to feel about ventism's weekly news magazine. It all the talking. Through its Fellow- a magazine that keeps in touch with is people—Adventist people talking ship of Prayer, its Letters From Adventists in every corner of the to one another about their most Readers, and the miscellaneous cor- world and tells you what's going on, prized possession, their hope in the respondence flowing into the editorial a magazine that inspires allegiance to coming of the Lord. It is a medium of offices, it listens to the heartbeat of a triumphing cause. exchange not only of news of the Adventism. With their awareness of Through the Review you may sit church but of the ideas that make the both the times and the issues, the in Sydney's Fairgrounds Hall with church a vibrant, dynamic, expand- editors respond to the hopes and 5,000 Australians listening to George ing organization. The people of the concerns of God's people. And this Vandeman. You may trudge through Review are more than the editorial animated conversation goes on week hot, dusty Indian villages where no staff, more than the printers; they after week, a healthy, fascinating worker has ever been assigned. You are the hundreds of thousands of dialogue that will continue until may watch new churches spring up readers who say: "We wouldn't be the Lord comes. in Nigeria, Norway, and New York. without it; it gets better all the time." The success of the Review as the You may sit in on Vacation Bible The Review is conversation—crea- family magazine for Seventh-day Schools in Uruguay. You may, in tive conversation of conferences and Adventists is no accident. The editors short, witness in the pages of the missions, of schools and medical in- regard each issue as a significant Review the growth and progress of stitutions, of young people's societies opportunity to bring into each home To its subscribers the Review and Herald seems to appear automatically comes off the press, someone orders paper, ink, and other supplies; each week as if in response to the wave of a "magic wand." Actually, writers are busy at their typewriters; and the editors are laying plans it is the result of long hours and careful work on the part of writers, for the magazine. This picture story shows the editorial staff of the Review editors, secretaries, printers, and many others. Weeks before an issue and some of the processes involved in putting out our church paper. Left: Editors Wood, Yost, and Neufeld (left to right) meet frequently to plan future issues, to decide on format im- provements, and to pray for God's blessing upon their work. Above: In addition to conferring with his immediate staff, the editor often counsels with Robert H. Pierson (left), President of the General Conference, on the handling of especially important articles and reports. Elder Pierson is a consulting editor and frequent contributor; and Elder Wood (right) is a member of the General Conference Committee, the board of the Ellen G. White Estate, and numerous other official committees. Right: With the articles for a given issue in hand, Associate Editor Don F. Neufeld (left) works with Layout Artist Ray- mond C. Hill on the "showcase" pages, the articles or poems featured on pages 1 to 3. in both pictures and words will ap- pear in an average of 11 reports of varying lengths each week, not counting brief news items. Of special interest to readers in the United States and Canada is the North American News section with its attractive format and its com- prehensive coverage of church af- fairs at home. In addition, the Review has regular weekly, biweekly, and monthly features, such as For Homemakers, Wayside Pulpit, Avenues of Reading Pleasure, The Art of Living When Left: Meanwhile, Mrs. Promise Sherman helps with a heavy load of dicta. -4 with varied You're Young, A Story for the requests that come to the Review office from readers. Mrs. Sherman also conducts "For Home- makers," a special weekly feature for parents and housewives. Right: The high point of the week for the associate editors and their secretaries is paste-up day. Working with specially printed dummy sheets and proofs of type and pictures, they put the next issue together item by item, page by page. Left to right: Miss Melendy, Elder Neufeld, Mrs. Emmerson, and Elder Yost. the best articles and reports, the for it by its first editors. It reviews best portrayal of the doctrines and and it heralds. It reviews the way programs of the church. They weave God has led His people, and His from a hundred threads a pattern teaching in our past history; it re- of instruction, information, and in- minds this generation of His contin- spiration. Taken together, these in- uing providences; and it reports the dividual weekly patterns of grace, immediate news of the church today. truth, faith, and hope produce a This church paper, begun in 1850, tapestry of journalistic beauty. also heralds the coming of Jesus Like a good friend, the Review Christ by proclaiming present truth drops in to visit every week and and by revealing how prophecy is brings with it what every person, fulfilling in our day. every family, every home needs. During the coming 12 months the Like a pastor, it comforts in sorrow, Review will contain about 200 letters guides through perplexity, and sus- from readers and 125 essays by the tains in life's dark hours by holding editors. Almost 150 articles on spirit- aloft the Word of God. Like a teacher, ual and devotional themes will ap- it explains what is obscure and pear, along with some 25 particularly makes complex issues plainer. It in- informative feature articles. The structs in righteousness and prepares President of the General Conference its readers for heaven. and the vice-presidents will speak The Review and Herald continues about 45 times to the people they to perform the functions intended lead and serve.