Rara Avis | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1860

“Rara Avis.”

We have received, through the kindness of a friend, a number of the “Bible Expositor,” formerly “Prophetic Expositor,” formerly “Advent Harbinger,” formerly “Voice of Truth,” formerly published in Rochester, N. Y., but now in Seneca Falls, N. Y., formerly edited by Joseph Marsh alone, but now assisted by T. G. Newman. The first thing that attracted our attention was the following very singular oversight. It occurs in the motto at the head of the sheet, which reads as follows: “He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures. Jesus.” According to this, these are the words of Jesus. But they are not the words of Jesus. Jesus did not speak them. They are spoken by Luke of Jesus. A singular blunder truly to appear on the very title-page of a sheet that pretends to Biblical criticism.

It is not often that this sheet comes to mind; but since it has come up again, we remember the greeting it gave us when we came from Rochester to this place. It then remarked: “The Advent Review is again to change its location; we believe this time to Battle Creek, Mich. Fanaticism must continually present new phases in order to attract the credulous.”

Did the “Expositor” remember this when lately changing its name as well as its location?