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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 25, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 40, No. 2.

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The Review.

By A. M. L.

WITH its open face and large caption, the REVIEW seems very much like a banner with its mottoes engraven on its front. And we read, Ps. 60: 4, “Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.” All military bodies carry flags, or ensigns, as a sign of their nationality and position.
Christians are represented as soldiers, and Christ as their great captain who leads them on to victory over opposing forces. The law of the Father and the faith of his Son are the conditions of his government. Obedience to these constitutes the true soldier and loyal citizen of the King’s dominions. The distinctive feature of the Christian’s banner is, The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And how manifestly we can see the hand of God in the work, as the REVIEW goes out as a swift messenger to many lands, to gather into one, a people who will bear aloft the standard of the Lord of Hosts, under whom we fight. It is not a matter of vain speculation on which side victory will turn; for we read that our Lord is strong and mighty, and by and by the weak will be as David.
Take courage, lonely pilgrim, continue to trust; for in his own time he will cut short the work in righteousness, and his children will come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads.
As I have seen in some families a surprising indifference to the reading of the REVIEW and a studying of the word, I have thought that were they placed for a while as the isolated, lonely ones are, they would more gladly hail its weekly visits, and cling more closely to the promises that herald the Coming One. Is his love in our hearts, and do we long for a better country, even an heavenly? Then will we not earnestly desire to hear of its approach, and hail, oh, how gladly! every indication of the triumph of the truth and the great consummation? Shall we not get so near to him that his love in our hearts will eclipse every other enterprise, while the rays of the Sun of Righteousness shall shine with undimmed splendor, “his banner over us shall be love,” and “love is the fulfilling of the law”? A. M. L. Oswego Co., N. Y.