Will You All Take Hold?
By Editor
THE REVIEW this week enters upon a new era of its history. As now enlarged, it presents about double the space for reading matter that it contained before this change. Correspondents will see at once the field there is before them, and realize, we trust, its importance. We want all this space filled with living, flaming words of truth; something that will arrest the attention of the unthinking, instruct the ignorant, convince skeptics, establish the wavering, stir up the backsliding, comfort believers, strengthen the weak, cheer the desponding, and bring us all nearer to Christ, and more into sympathy with his will, and into the spirit of his work. Give us your choicest thoughts, your richest experiences, in the briefest and most forcible words. Will you all take hold, and do what you can in this direction? With an increase of matter, and an improvement in tone, the REVIEW should enlarge its sphere of usefulness. It ought shortly to visit double the number of homes which it now enters. Will you all take hold to help in this direction also? And while we try to have a paper worthy of the cause, we want a cause worthy of the paper. A living cause is worthy of a living paper. But the paper cannot long retain its life, if the cause is in a feeble, languishing condition. The improvements undertaken in behalf of the REVIEW, therefore, bring an increased responsibility upon all, to work for the cause in all its departments and in all directions. Wrestle with the Lord till your hearts are all aglow with love to God and man. Seek for a double portion of the Holy Spirit. David with his sling, and Jonathan with his armor-bearer, were able to rout the armies of the Philistines, because God's Spirit was with them; while the whole host of Israelites, unconsecrated and afraid, with all their pomp and show of power, could accomplish nothing. Thus equipped with effectual power, go forth, the few remaining moments of time, to labor for the salvation of souls. We can do all things through Christ strengthening us. Will you all take hold of the work, and let your leading interest be for the precious cause of present truth?