p. 192 | Life Incidents by Roswell Fenner Cottrell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 29, 1868

"Life Incidents."

By Roswell Fenner Cottrell

I HAVE received the book, and read that portion of it which I had not read before as it appeared in the REVIEW. The whole is deeply interesting to the believing heart. It is not so much a biography detailing the incidents of the life of the writer, as a history of the Advent movement, closing up with a brief, but lucid, view of our present position and prospect in the Advent faith.

It will do much good. We have no book better calculated to lead the inquiring mind into the investigation of present truth. I would that every candid person might have the benefit of its perusal.

But it cannot accomplish its object and mission on the book shelves at the office. Who will share in the good it is destined to do? Brethren and sisters, though we could not write it, we may share in the profits. We can circulate it. We can get it into the hands of those who will read it, in the various ways already suggested. With much less labor than the writing of the book, we can get it into the hands of those who may be benefited and saved through this instrumentality. Who is there that believes the truth of this last message, and does not wish thus to share in the profits of this work?

Time is short. This book has not appeared too soon. Let those who would have the Advent movement presented in its true light to their friends and neighbors, and vindicated from the aspersions of its enemies, and the false and prejudicial light in which it is held by many that bear the Advent name, exert themselves to get this work into their hands. Our labor is not in vain in the suffering cause of the Lord. R. F. COTTRELL.