Thirty-Five Volumes of the Review
By Editor
This week adds another to the thirty-four completed volumes of the REVIEW, now standing upon our library shelves. A period of twenty years is covered by this array of volumes. In them is the record of a movement which has been life and salvation to many, a movement which as many more probably have rejected, but of which more still are yet ignorant. The record of the rise and progress of the last message of mercy to the present time, stands upon their pages. We cannot, for a moment, entertain the thought that time enough remains to complete as many more volumes of this paper. And how much is yet to be done! How replete then must be the few volumes yet to be published, with accounts of the rapid progress of the cause, and the wonderful work of the Lord for his truth and people. This we confidently expect to see; for God never fails to carry out his plans and accomplish his purposes. How many experiences are recorded in these numerous volumes! How much labor do they represent! How many have toiled with brain and pen to fill their pages! What changes have been recorded! What fulfillments of prophecy have been chronicled! What truth has been brought out! But one after another, the volumes have closed. Thirty-five now stand completed. All is finished in regard to them except the good influence which they are destined still to exert. So all things are closing. How many lives are daily closing! How soon this world's history itself will end, and the great voice from the throne of the temple of God in Heaven be heard, saying, It is done! What a close this will be! To the wicked, the close of all their hopes, the close of their dreams of happiness, the close of their schemes of pleasure. To the righteous, the close of all their sorrows, the close of their trials and afflictions, the close of their warfare and weary pilgrimage. It remains for us yet to determine whether the final consummation shall be to us a day of inexpressible joy, or of unutterable woe. Let us live in reference to the coming issue. “So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”