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THE NEW YEAR

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 20, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 3.

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THE NEW YEAR.

By James White

Sabbath, January 1, 1876, was the most important day in the history of Seventh-day Adventists. In addition to that good day being the holy Sabbath of the Lord, it was the first day of the new year, sacredly observed by our people, throughout the length and breadth of our land, for humiliation, self-examination, confession, fasting, and prayer. The day was important and profitable to the congregations at Oakland and San Francisco, and we are expecting cheering reports from all parts of the wide field. Having commenced the year 1876 well, God grant that it may be the best year to our people and our cause that they have ever enjoyed.
Thousands renewed their covenant on the first day of the current year to serve the Lord with singleness of heart all the days of their life. May they keep it unto the end. And thousands resolved to be more forgiving, less exacting, less censorious, and more consecrated in life and efforts to advance the cause of Christ. May God help them. Under the solemnities of the occasion, during the services of the worship of God on that Sabbath, promises, vows and consecrations were made with comparative ease. But now comes the battle of the year, yea, of life, until the Master shall come, to perform.
With the new year the SIGNS starts in to make its weekly visits to its patrons, and to all who may become such during the year. Its prospects of success are cheering. The receipts in the present number, and in the previous one, are principally from new subscribers, and indicate the deep interest taken in our paper. Our friends may depend upon the SIGNS weekly.
We commence the series of articles setting forth the reasons of our faith and hope, in this number, with the article on another page upon the millennium. These articles will continue in proper order quite through the year. Sketches of the life of Mrs. W. will also continue, and will be very important to those who should know the facts in her remarkable experience.
And we shall very soon commence a series of articles under the caption, The Matter Reversed, or, Christ in the Old Testament, and the Sabbath in the New. We design to thoroughly ventilate the question.—J. W., in SIGNS, Jan. 6, 1876.