To Correspondents by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1866

To Correspondents.

By Editor

ANSWERED by letter. Wm. C. Gage.

Wm. Caviness. We design to publish something on the subject of your inquiry soon.

"W.," of St. Joseph, Mo. We do not understand that any prophetic period is given to reach to the coming of Christ. See works on the Sanctuary, and 2300 Days.

W. A. R. of Johnstown. Confessions need not be made any more public than the wrongs.

ARTICLES DECLINED. A communication signed j. w. We must in all cases know the real name.—"Nothing but Leaves." This has already been in Review.—The Scriptures a Negative as well as a Positive rule of Faith and Practice. While no objection can be taken to the article in itself, we think there are more stirring and important themes for the people of this generation.

ARTICLES ACCEPTED.—Buy the Truth.—Angels our Patterns.—A Package of Selections from Mrs. O. T. Booth.—The Saviour is coming, (without chorus.) The theme is too joyful for the plaintive tune of "Come home, father."—Men speak as they Believe.—I Want.—The Morning Cometh.—Tobacco.—Review of Elds. Law and Delap, by I Sanborn.—Real and Glorious Prospects.

SALERATUS.

Wood is burnt to ashes, the ashes lixiviated, lye is the result. Lye is evaporated by boiling, black salts is the residuum. The salt undergoes purification by fire, and the potash of commerce is obtained. By process we now change potash into pearlash. Now put this in sacks and place it over a distillery tub, where the fermentation evolves carbonic-acid gas, and the pearlash absorbs it and it is rendered solid, the product being heavier, whiter and drier than the pearlash. It is now saleratus. How much salts of lye and carbonic-acid gas a human stomach can bear, and remain healthy, is a question for saleratus eaters. Some people say saleratus will not harm the stomach. It is a lye!