The Review and Herald by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 20, 1870

The Review and Herald.

By James White

It is with no small degree of satisfaction that we send out the REVIEW AND HERALD this week, enlarged, and in many respects, improved. The larger type will be more easily read; the enlarged sheet will contain a greater amount of reading matter, and will be more respectable in appearance.

In consequence of unavoidable delays in making changes, the REVIEW is late this week. We design to mail it regularly on third-day of each week.

Bro. Smith returns to his editorial duties, restored to usual health, with renewed consecration and courage in the work. Before him is a wide field of usefulness, and an important work. When helpers were few, nearly eighteen years since, God raised him up to help us in the work that was then increasing upon our hands. Side by side we labor on, never with better courage and brighter hopes than at the present time. We each have our part to act in close connection. Will those who have faith pray for us that He who has been with us hitherto, may be with us to help us graciously by his Holy Spirit unto the end.

With this number of the REVIEW, we commence another series of articles, in which we resume the work of giving the reasons of our faith and hope. These we design to continue each week till the duties of another camp-meeting season may compel us to discontinue them for a time. We shall spare neither time nor labor to make these articles instructive. They will probably occupy nearly the first two pages of the paper each week. Without these, the REVIEW would possess that interest which should induce its patrons to subscribe for it to send to thousands of their friends; but with these articles, setting forth the reasons of our faith and hope, which we trust will be adapted to the wants of their friends, we shall expect the general interest of all our friends and patrons, in giving the REVIEW a very wide circulation. We print this week one thousand copies extra, that we may be able to send this first number of the volume, and of the enlarged sheet, to new subscribers. We are making ready, friends, and will give your orders a hearty reception. Those who design to order the REVIEW sent to their friends, should not wait till several numbers of the current volume shall be issued. Order it immediately as a New-Year’s present to your friends.

The REVIEW should be sent to thousands free. But with the present size of our sheet, the Association cannot meet the expense. The friends of the cause will cheerfully bear this expense. Let all our old friends, ministers, and people, come right up to the work, from this time, and pay the full subscription price, according to the terms of our paper, namely, “Two Dollars a Year in Advance.” This will be necessary to meet the expenses of the enlarged sheet.

Those who are in arrears must settle up in some way. They should pay all, or a part, at once; or should state their inability to pay, without delay, and we will forgive the debt. No one can complain of our terms. No one can expect more than we offer. And we hope that our forbearance toward those who are in debt for the REVIEW, and our present indulgent offers, will now move every subscriber who is in arrears, to report immediately to this Office. Pay all, a part, or, if you are very poor, none, of what you owe for the past, and commence now, with the new, enlarged, and improved volume, by paying two dollars in advance.

Churches, and scattered brethren, should see that the worthy poor are furnished with the REVIEW. To such, when paid for by others, we will send the REVIEW for $1.50 per year. And to all who wish to take the REVIEW on trial, and to those who order it for friends, it will be furnished for $1.50 per year.

One year since, we received about five hundred subscribers at half price. Friends of the cause sent us the names and addresses of their friends, with one dollar for each, that they might receive the REVIEW for one year. It was suggested that during the year, many of the reasons of our faith and hope would be given. This has been done on our part as far as possible. We are loth to part with any of the five hundred subscribers, and shall wait three weeks for them to renew their subscriptions, or for their friends to renew for them. If, after we have sent three numbers of the enlarged sheet, their subscriptions are not renewed at $2.00 a year, we shall be compelled to take up the painful task of erasing their names from our lists. J. W.