Untitled article by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1907

1907-1908

By Editor

The old year is just passing, and the new year is just coming. The last pages of the record of the old year are being written, while the daily record for the new year is yet to be made. We bid farewell to the old year, and we say, “All hail!” to the new year.

In the weekly issues of the REVIEW for the year just closing, we have faithfully endeavored to present an epitome of the progress of this advent movement in all lands, and to provide such instruction upon the fundamental principles of the gospel and their setting in the three-fold message of preparation for the coming of the Lord as would give our readers a basis for an intelligent faith that they are not following cunningly devised fables in accepting this movement as the fulfilment of prophecy in giving the final message of salvation in the face of the impending destruction of the world. By many words of appreciation we have been encouraged to believe that our efforts have not been altogether in vain, although we are fully conscious of falling far short of our ideal.

We can only promise our best endeavor for the year 1908. Each succeeding year grows more significant, as bringing us nearer the end already near, and as marking the increasing intensity in the great controversy so soon to reach its climax. If we are able to carry out the plans which we have in mind concerning the paper, we feel confident that our readers will find it more valuable than ever, and in any case it will be a necessity to those who wish to keep in touch with our work as a living and growing movement.

We extend Christian greetings to all who read these lines, and wish for them that steady growth in grace and in the knowledge of God as revealed in Christ which ought to mark the experience of the earnest and faithful believer of the truth as it is in Jesus. May the glad new year soon dawn in the New Jerusalem!