This Week’s Paper by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 1, 1874

This Week’s Paper.

By Uriah Smith

Bro. Stone, in the short sermon on the first page, makes a stirring and convincing appeal for workers in the cause of truth. Read it, and be moved by it.

In the Reviews of Nov. 10 and 17, Bro. Waggoner very clearly set forth the spirituality of the Law of God. These articles are appropriately supplemented by Bro. Canright’s articles on the Morality of the Sabbath, commenced in this number.

“Knowing the Time,” by Bro. Cornell, presents some startling facts, which all should ponder well. There is no danger of acting too much as though we believed that the coming of the Lord was very near.

“Sunday in New York,” shows the still further giving away of restraints upon the Sunday institution. We look for this soon to reach such an extent that the consciences of church-goers will be aroused, and they will take hold of the Sunday law question with a determination that nothing can resist.

“Barbarism or the Millennium,” from the Christian Statesman, shows the fearful condition of society at the present day; and what is most significant is the admission that the professed church itself is carried down with the all-prevailing tide of worldliness and corruption. All this indicates, in the natural order of things, a long distance from the millennium; but it furnishes a good fulcrum over which to appeal for laws to secure that which moral suasion has failed to establish.

The leading editorial, on Leadership, in substance, was written by Bro. White, in California, immediately after the publication of the tract upon the subject, which was approved by the General Conference. Hence, it is an expression of his views relative to the teachings of the Scriptures upon the subject, unbiased by the opinions and feelings of any one, then or now. He now designs to give his views more fully, in tract form, when he proposes to apply the subject to the brief history of our cause, with which he has been connected from the first.

“Progress in America” contains facts which our brethren will find of use in their expositions of Rev. 13:11–17.

Let the reader strive to secure the constant presence of the “Three Angels” set forth in the gem of poetry on p. 182.

Reports in our Progress Department are not numerous, but all contain something to encourage. The report from St. Clair Co. shows a little of that which is sure to follow the progress of this work. As the cause of truth gathers to itself volume and power, the ire of the dragon will be aroused in the same proportion.

In the article headed Protestantism and Popery, the reader will find that which is instructive as well as exceedingly entertaining.

“Holiday Digressions,” from the Reformer, is a timely topic for this season of the year.

Other items might be noticed; but the reader will find them all, and we trust will appreciate each one without further mention. U. S.