THE REVIEW AND HERALD by I. L. Green

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 5, 1901

THE REVIEW AND HERALD

By I. L. Green

I. L. GREEN, M. D.

(Chicago, Ill.)

I HAVE been a reader of the REVIEW AND HERALD ever since my attention was called to the three angels’ messages, by Elders J. N. Andrews and M. E. Cornell, many years ago.

Of the reading-matter in our home, the REVIEW was regarded next in importance after the Bible. To have been without its weekly visits would have been thought a great deprivation, attended with serious spiritual loss. The numbers of the first year’s volume were made into a book by my mother, now sleeping, that she might preserve them, and loan them to interested readers.

Each year the REVIEW has increased in value, and is a faithful exponent of the advancing light of present truth, growing more and more interesting. Language fails to do justice to its meritorious work. It has no commercial value, owing to the character of its work in preparing a people for translation. An attempt to estimate its value in comparison with the subscription price, would be vainly trying to estimate the gifts of the Spirit upon a money basis.

The spiritual pulse and temperature of a church or of isolated members may be quite safely determined by consulting the REVIEW subscription lists. Where there are but few, if any, who take the REVIEW, the diagnosis is indeed bad, showing a serious decline of spiritual health. Without a radical change, and the use of the indicated remedy,—subscribing for the REVIEW,—the prognosis is equally unfavorable: spiritual coma must supervene, with death.

In order to keep abreast of this wonder-developing age, knowing where we are, what we are, and what our individual relationship is to these rapidly fulfilling prophecies, we must have the key to intelligent interpretation of the word of God and its application. If necessary, let us sacrifice that we may have our inestimable home paper, the ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD.