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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 12, 1867

We have received from H. L. Hastings, No. 19 Lindall street, Boston, Mass., a few specimen copies of a sheet containing nine pieces of music, with appropriate words, entitled, Calvary, Over There, I Shall Rest, The Shining Land, ’Tis the Very Same Jesus, Hallelujah, Say, Brother, Shall We Meet? The Little Grave, and, We Shall Walk through the Valley in Peace. Price 20c per sheet, to be had by addressing H. L. Hastings as above.

Eld. H. has also sent us the prospectus of his monthly publication called “The Christian.” A new volume will commence Jan. 1, 1868. A large, eight-page family paper, devoted to sermons, tracts, tales, sketches, stories, poetry, music, &c., for old and young. Price 60c per year.

The nature of this publication is similar to that of the American Messenger, by the American Tract Society, with the omission of some of the popular errors, which are found more or less in the latter. There is much good, practical, religious instruction in both; and we rejoice in the good that may be done by either or both of these agencies in a general way. But with all due deference to this, we think that those who have the light on the immediate second advent of the Lord of glory, should make that great theme a specialty. There are plenty to publish general and practical instruction; but few are willing to devote their energies to the proclamation of the unpopular doctrine of the coming of the Lord. But if this great event is even now at the door and hastening greatly, the times demand that those who behold its awful approach, should devote their time and talent to raising the definite alarm in the ears of the careless, slumbering and wicked world, in tones of thunder and words of flame.