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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 28, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 1.

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The New Volume.

By Editor

WITH this number, the REVIEW AND HERALD enters upon its thirty-fifth volume. We may well pause for a moment and reflect. Our record is being made up for the judgment. Those connected with the REVIEW may well regret its failure to fully meet the standard of moral worth which the sacred cause of Christ requires us to meet. And those who have perused its pages, though they have seen its faults, have perhaps nearly all failed to fully practice the good which they have found in its columns.
But our regrets for past faults will only be of benefit to us by different action in time to come. With the new volume, let us attempt in earnest to redeem the past by the faithful fulfillment of the duties now before us. The REVIEW should give no uncertain sound. “The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” are still the theme of its teaching. We mean that it shall more perfectly fulfill its exalted mission. We ask the earnest co-operation of all its friends and patrons. We request those who have hitherto written for the REVIEW to continue their favors. And others who have never done this are also invited. We cannot publish all that may be written. Articles excellent in themselves may not be adapted to our columns. The REVIEW is small. We will do the best in our power to make the wisest choice in that which is offered. Do not be offended by the fact that your articles are not always inserted. Write again. It will profit you to do it. Give us your experience in the school of Christ. Seek the plainest language and the least possible display of self. Do not forget that you must give account, and that you will be judged concerning that which you write, as well as with reference to every other act of life.
We ask all the readers of the REVIEW to pray for the blessing of God upon its pages. We also ask your co-operation in extending its circulation. As a new volume commences so near the opening of the year 1870, will you not, all who are able, send it as a New Year's present to some valued friend as a source of instruction for the year to come? And will you not all regard its solemn admonition in preparing for the judgment?