This Week's Paper by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 29, 1877

This Week's Paper

By Editor

We are happy to learn, from private letters, of the continued improvement of Bro. White's health, and glad that he is able to speak so fully in this number of the REVIEW. The reader will find in his articles the usual proportion of interesting matter, and thoughts worthy of consideration.

Those who have requested that something be published in the REVIEW in relation to the organization of churches and the holding of church property, will find articles on those subjects in this number. We call especial attention to them in this manner, that they may not be overlooked.

This Week's Paper.

THE Thanksgiving Hymn on our first page, carrying the mind from these earthly seasons of re-union and gladness, to the great gathering and eternal re-union at the close of our mortal pilgrimage, will incite in many hearts a more earnest longing to join at last the festal throng in our Eden home.

The Watch Tower department is filled with significant items relating to the signs of the times. The death of the pope, now daily expected, is looked forward to as an event which will bring a great crisis in the affairs of Europe. The facts brought out in the article “An Extraordinary Season,” are startling.

In the department of general articles, we call attention to Bro. Butler's report of a Missionary Sermon and Remarkable Tradition. What a lesson for missionary workers in this more favored land. The article on Church Organization, showing how to organize churches, was published some years since in pamphlet form; but the edition was long ago exhausted, and the article is now published by the request of those who desire the information here given. The same may be said of the directions for organizing legal societies to hold church property, as published on page 175. This applies only to Michigan. The law in other States may differ somewhat from this.

Bro. E. R. Jones on page 171 touches upon an important point. That any family of Sabbath-keepers should be without the REVIEW, REFORMER and INSTRUCTOR, is wrong. The increase of subscribers to the REVIEW should keep pace with the increase of believers in this message. But while believers are multiplying on every hand, and membership in the different Conferences is rapidly increasing, the REVIEW list is not growing in any such proportion. Will all our ministers and T. and M. Societies please look after this matter?

The interest still continues in Massachusetts, according to the report of Bro. Carright; while at the other side of the continent, the organization of the North Pacific Conference, for Washington Territory and Oregon, will mark a new era for the work on the Pacific coast.