ENCOURAGING by A. S. HUTCHINS

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 25, 1867

ENCOURAGING.

By A. S. HUTCHINS

WITHIN six months, our excellent Review has been doubled in its size, so that we now have a weekly paper of sixteen pages, going forth bearing the light of heaven and the burning, saving truths of God's sacred word, to all its numerous readers. And as I have read it in its recent enlarged form, I have been led to exclaim, This is truly a matter of encouragement. Every true friend of the cause can not but hail its weekly visits with real satisfaction.

It would certainly be a matter of encouragement to us all, if we could buy double the amount of flour or grain or other necessary articles for fifteen dollars, that we could six months since for ten dollars, and especially if the articles were superior in quality to those bought six months since.

And that this is the case, when applied to the Review, I think will not be denied. For I believe with its enlargement each time it has grown better. Every week it brings its readers a carefully prepared Sermon on present truth. Now if we had only the Sermon and should pay the regular price for the Review, they would cost us, postage included, only a fraction over six cents each. And are they not worth that?

But we have more: There is the Commentary, the Historical department; and the Editorial with its stirring, living truths, and the Conference department with its cheering epistles, and the News and miscellany showing the signs of the times, and other valuable items, which when all put together cost the reader less than one sixteenth part of a dollar. Now who can say other wise, than that this is encouraging?

But let us not forget the publishers and Editor. They need to be encouraged by seeing all arrears promptly paid; and by receiving forthwith the names of all who have not paid in advance, with three dollars to pay for the next two volumes, accompanied if possible with the name of some friend of yours whom you have induced to subscribe for the Review, or to whom you will send it one year and pay for it yourself.

The Editor needs to be encouraged with many good and well written communications, letters and choice items of Christian experience from all the dear saints whose hearts are in the work of the third angel's message. Yea he needs to be encouraged by the fervent, effectual prayers of the righteous in all parts of the great and fast ripening harvest field.

Dear brethren and sisters, as you value the paper forget not to pray for those who prepare it and send it out to you.

A. S. HUTCHINS. Health Institute, B. C. Mich.