To Correspondents by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 22, 1867

To Correspondents.

By Editor

The following appropriate advice to correspondents is too good to be confined to the circulation of any one paper. We clip it from the Earnest Christian, adapt it to the Review, and earnestly recommend that it be acted upon by all who contribute to our columns:

“Before you write for the Review, get your soul baptized. In a battle, it is not the mere weight of a ball, but the rapidity of its motion, that does the execution; so, in the war of the Lord, it is not simply the truth uttered, but the unction, the hidden power attending it that makes it mighty for good. We do not want mere literary productions of a religious character, however polished, for our columns; we want articles full of holy fire. Unless you have it in you, no amount of forcing will bring it out. Give us the pith, the point, the power, and we can easily make such literary corrections as are needed.”