The Bible Banner | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1871

The Bible Banner.

We have received the first number of a publication bearing this name, a large eight-page sheet, which it is proposed to issue monthly in N. Y. City. John Couch, Wm. Sheldon, and A. A. Phelps, editors, H. A. King, publisher. The “object and scope” of the paper is declared to be “to elucidate the fundamental features of Bible truth in the various departments of Doctrine, Prophecy and Practical Piety,” special attention being promised to such subjects as the “Nature of Man, Atonement of Christ, Signs of the Times, Coming of the Bridegroom, Resurrection of the Dead, Destiny of the Wicked, Redemption of the Earth, and Crowning of Christians in the Kingdom to Come.” But there are two papers already published, The World's Crisis, and the Advent Christian Times, which, so far as we are able to gather, have exactly the same “object and scope;” and with both of which one of the editors of the Banner now stands officially connected. The query therefore arises, Is a new paper having the same object in view, called for? Why not concentrate effort and talent upon those already established, to make them able and prosperous, rather than add to a list already none too liberally supported? The first number of the Banner presents a very creditable appearance, and the enterprise seems to be entered into with great earnestness and confidence. Terms: $1.00 per year.