p. 4 | VOLUME FIFTY by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1877

VOLUME FIFTY.

By Uriah Smith

These are the figures which mark this new birth-day of the REVIEW. We enter this week upon a volume which, when completed, will make half a hundred volumes of this preacher of righteousness, and exponent of the signs of the times. These cover a period of nearly twenty-seven years. And we can look back over all these years and see the prospering hand of God with this journal. The progress of the cause of which it is the organ and representative, has sometimes been slow, but always steady and sure.

We occupy to-day advance ground. The paper never had so many nor so strong friends as it has to-day. The truth was never brighter, nor the foundations of the work broader or deeper. No support has given out, no step has been taken backward. In a thousand directions the way is opening. The notes of our solemn message are beginning to sound in other lands. Circumstances are everywhere ripening for a great work.

We have nothing which should lead to boasting or presumption, but everything to inspire trust and courage. The consummation of our hope is drawing near. In the language of another, we can both feel and say, “Cowardice to the rear, courage to the front.” U. S.