Review of The Normal Offering Magazine
We have received the first number of “The Normal Offering,” published by B. F. Merritt and A. J. Dennis, at Normal, Illinois. A magazine for the Household. Monthly, 32 pages. Price $1.00 a year. During 1878 it is offered at half price, in order to introduce it. The contents of this first number show a good variety and excellent quality of matter. It advocates the observance of the seventh day as the Sabbath, and the doctrines of the unconscious state of the dead, and the soon-coming of Christ. We wish it might have abundant success, but fear that it will find it uphill business to make these views welcome doctrines in a sufficient number of households to furnish the needed support.