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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 19.

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Many of our friends have frequent and fervent words of commendation to offer in behalf of the Review. We should feel much more diffident about making these public, could we personally take the credit for all the excellences of the paper. As it is, the paper being the property of the church, and all, or many, contributing to its interest and usefulness, all must be gratified to learn that it is appreciated and esteemed. Still we have sometimes been at a loss to decide how far it is proper or profitable to insert articles of this nature. Bro. Clarke, of Ohio, however, indulges in a degree of enthusiasm which it would be cruel to restrain. He says:—
THE REVIEW! How we hail its weekly visits! How we admire its devotion to truth! How we love its warm testimonies! How we love to add our mite to its weekly offerings! Sometimes one is hindered in a very busy time from writing; but one can always find time to read such a paper as this.
Do you desire a friend, a counsellor? Do you wish to find the people of God? Do you wish to find one who cares for your soul? Do you ardently desire to find the evangelist who will point you to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world? Do you wish a true exponent of Christianity? Do you long for a true interpretation of scripture, including its principles, and its powers, its history, and its prophecies?
All these has my soul longed for from my youth; and it has found them. In the Review, we have realized all we could ask in a world like this. Since we first became acquainted with the Review, life has taken on brighter hues, and the future wears an aspect, intelligible, tangible, real. Error no more binds one in her heavy chains; but, set at liberty, we can now take life as it is, and contemplate the future as it will be. Dear reader, do you think we elevate the Review above the Bible? No; it is because the Review gives a true explanation of Scripture, that we speak thus.
Our love for truth is a love that does not change like the moon, from full to new, and from new to full, but steadily increases; and we say, God speed it on its mission of love to man; and as it enlarges its size, and its circulation, and usefulness, collecting its weekly treasures, we know these preparations denote the nearness of the Saviour’s Advent.
JOS. CLARKE.