Our Paper by Julia E. Green

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1875

Our Paper.

By Julia E. Green

We love it; and I often wonder if every denomination so highly prizes its paper as we do ours. Every week the REVIEW comes to us laden with a feast of fat things. It contains words of cheer to the weary and disheartened, words of comfort to the sorrowing, words of admonition to the erring, and invitations to the wanderer to return to the fold. It contains news, good news of progress from all parts of the field. These are a few of the many good things served up to us weekly by our faithful friends at the Office.

When I read the short, well written articles from the pens of so many contributors, I feel a strong desire to add my mite. “You do not know how much good your piece did me,” said one friend to another. I thought, Truly, we do not know how much good we can do. We may never know that our efforts have been blessed to the good of any, but it may be none the less our duty to speak, though we have but one talent and that a very small one. We know not but some despairing soul may be stirred up to a new effort for victory by our broken remarks. I have many times begun to write, and have laid aside the articles incomplete. “We shall be judged by what we do, not by what we thought to do.” God is looking at us too, and can see if we are really desirous to improve. Let us ever remember that the eye of a holy God is upon us, and that for all our words and actions we must render an account.

JULIA E. GREEN.

Hebron, Jeff. Co., Wis.