Untitled article by Jos. Clarke

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 5, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 21

THE REVIEW.

By Jos. Clarke

This paper is not the property of one, or of a few, but of the church; and it is unlike any other religious periodical. It has no paid contributors, no long list of advertisements to increase its income. It does not when advocating the principle of temperance, stultify itself by puffing alcoholic drinks, disguised under the name of Plantation Bitters, or those of Mr. Roback; but it is consistent, in its principles, and its practice.

Alluding to these first principles, is sufficient, for the present, on the points I would speak of. What I wish especially to say is, Have we not all, who can write, a weekly responsibility laid upon us which cannot be evaded, if we would please God, in supplying the Review, with nearly sixteen pages of matter mostly original? Shall the paper be interesting? Shall it be very profitable? There are many writers who love the Review. Let us all feel it our duty, and a pleasant duty too, to note down our best thoughts, to glean from all pure sources, and from all points of the compass for the Review.

It is our paper, as much as it is of any one, as long as we are faithful. It is ours to make interesting, and good, and holy. Shall not this paper be the one point, we all will labor to make effective? Only a little work for us all, but a heavy labor for a few.

The Review is very interesting now; but no doubt its columns will become still more fruitful when all who can write feel that they have a duty to do, as well as those who have labored patiently for years.

JOS. CLARKE.