Untitled article by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 1, 1867.

THE REVIEW.

By Editor

The Review, No. 15, has just reached us in Washington, Iowa. By our absence from the Office, we have the opportunity of seeing how the paper is received at the distant homes of the brethren to which it makes its way. We find its readers more than gratified with its recent enlargements. They testify especially to the value of the Sermon department, which alone they consider worth more than the entire price of the paper. Our preaching brethren will please make a note of this.

Though much of the matter of this number was under process of publication before we left home, yet we have scanned its columns with interest. We notice that the Conference Department is especially short. This is a department of interest to the generality of our readers, as being a portion of the paper in which they may look for a free and familiar record of individual experience, such as they know how to appreciate from their own daily life. When the paper was enlarged it was estimated that should the brethren write sufficiently to fill it, two whole pages might be devoted to this department, and yet leave room enough for such other matter as the paper should contain; but so far on this volume, but little more than a page has at any time been filled with letters from the brethren and sisters, and generally much less space than that. Several have already remarked to us on this trip that they would be glad to see more in this department. So say we; and as we looked over the assembly of Sabbath-keepers at the Wisconsin meeting, we thought, how many scores of brethren and sisters are here, whose names we should be glad to see appended to communications for the paper. And we would say to all, The space is provided, the paper is open, and the brethren are waiting to hear from you.

Another suggestion to our contributors. Subjects are frequently resting upon the minds of individuals upon which they think they would be glad to have something written. Our invariable reply to such is, that they are just the ones to write upon such subjects. When a person's mind is wrought up on any question, so that he can give another an idea of the points resting upon his mind, in nine cases out of ten, he is the best one to sit down and write it out; for the burden of the matter is upon him, and he is prepared to bring out his ideas, and edify the reader, in a way that one whose mind is not thus wrought up on it, cannot do.