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VOLUME XXIX

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 11, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 1.

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VOLUME XXIX.

By Editor

This week, the Review, entering upon its twenty-ninth volume, in enlarged form and new dress, offers the hand of greeting to its many readers. It presents some new features which we doubt not will be acceptable to all its friends, and tend to increase its circulation and greatly enlarge its sphere of usefulness. That the changes that have been made, especially the enlargement of the paper, have been called for, we believe the event will fully prove. The state of the world and the wants of the cause of present truth have for a long time demanded that the Review should be capable of bearing a more extended testimony. We have for some time past been aware of one special deficiency in this respect, a lack of carefully prepared arguments of greater or less length, setting forth and defending the main points of our faith. This want we intend shall hereafter be supplied, so that they who will take the Review for one volume, and carefully read it, shall know what Seventh-day Adventists believe, and why they believe it.
As the shades of twilight fast deepen into the blackness of night, so moral darkness is shutting down upon the world. Perils, the perils of the last days, by which is meant no ordinary perils, are thickening around us. In ever-lessening circles, and with ever-increasing velocity, the world is being drawn into the great whirlpool of coming destruction. Much is yet to be done in the way of warning sinners, and arousing the church. Those who have charge of the publishing department feel like taking hold of the work anew. Will these feelings meet a response from all parts of the field? We believe they will.
The enlargement of the paper will add greatly to the labors and responsibilities of those connected with the office; but these will be cheerfully borne, if the Review, as it goes forth to the homes of its patrons, may be esteemed a dearer friend, and meet, if possible, a warmer welcome.