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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1866

The Review and Herald.

By Editor

BATTLE CREEK, MICH., THIRD-DAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1866.

This Week's Review.

So many articles present themselves in this number, in reference to which a word would be appropriate, that we scarcely know where to commence.

— It frequently happens that couched in one short paragraph, we find a gem of thought that contains within itself a whole mine of truth. Such a one was the little item headed, Read your Bible slowly, in No. 8 present volume; and several such will be found glowing like diamonds and rubies in our columns this week. Among these we may mention particularly the items, "I Don't Believe it,"—The Wrong Signal,—and "Rev." S. Fiske's good hit at those who come tardily to the house of God. Read them all; and especially engrave it upon your memory that half your victory in the Christian warfare lies in your "not believing" the enemy when he would try to make you believe that you are defeated.

— The newly-coined word, "Telegrammatic," sounds well in an editor's ears, because it contains an idea which he likes. We commend a careful study of it to contributors. We do not say that no article must be lengthy. We often meet with some which we wish were longer. What we would say is, Do not have more words than thoughts.

— The articles "Common Colds," and "Cholera Coming," will be found timely. We are approaching the seasons when the first of these enemies of health is almost certain to hold uncommon sway, and in many cases no doubt lead to fatal results; and in the opening of the coming summer the latter scourge will probably commence its deadly march through the land. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. In reference, however, to treating a common cold, we are not so prone as the writer, to class the "old grannies" with the drug doctors. We think the former stand infinitely ahead; and if we were to fall into the hands of either, we should say, give us the "old grannies," with nothing worse than their catnip, pennyroyal and boneset. We are not saying by this, however, that there is not "a more excellent way."

— "And the Nations were Angry." A remarkable position taken by the New York Independent. It does us good to have the opposers of the truth bear testimony, however unconsciously, in its favor. If the condition of the world is so marked that those unenlightened by a study of the prophetic word, cannot shut their eyes to it, we may rest assured that our interpretations cannot be far from correct. The wrath of God, like waters for their prey, maketh haste; and the glad hour that brings reward to the servants of God, is nigh at hand.

— If the reader wishes further proof that popular orthodoxy is Spiritualism in fact, we refer him to the utterances of the Methodist minister, set forth in piece headed "Who are the Angels?"

— While the editor of the Independent can see that the nations are angry, the editor of a Chicago paper can see that the professed church of Christ has fallen to a dead level with the world, so that even the church service is but a continuance of the empty performances of the opera. See the testimony in Bro. Dorcas' letter. The church may think that it is converting the world; but the world knows that it is converting the church.

— Believers in present truth will find much matter for reflection in the contribution of Bro. Cottrell, "The Truth will Triumph." Information full of interest in relation to the progress of the cause is given in the reports from Brn. Stratton and Whitney, while a more than ordinary amount of spirited testimonies in the Letter Department completes the record of this week's issue.

"So let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess; So let our works and virtues shine, To prove the doctrine all divine."