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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 1.

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VOLUME FIFTY-ONE.

By Editor

Figures, this time 51—1878, again remind us of the lapse of time speeding past like an arrow. We look into the future. The figures that mark the coming years grow dim and are soon lost in the darkness of the great day of the Lord. The wiles of the enemy are everywhere visible to those who are the children of the day. Every effort is made to draw the minds of men away from that to which they should now give their most earnest attention,—the soon-coming end. Or, if they will look to the future, then the policy of the adversary is to give them a perverted or false view of coming events, and lead them to settle down into fancied security, anticipating the enjoyment of every good, instead of preparing for the realities of that day which shall sweep away all refuges of lies, and try every man’s work as by fire.
This deceptive dream must be broken. The world must hear the true warning. Blow the trumpet in Zion, says the prophet, when the day of the Lord cometh, when it is nigh at hand. And the prophecy will be fulfilled by those who will give the trumpet no uncertain sound. The REVIEW is one of the important agencies through which the note of warning is to be sounded.
A new volume is before us. We enter upon it feeling more than ever the need there is for such papers as the REVIEW and its co-laborers in the same field. These alone put in all the links in some important lines of prophecy, down to the very end. These alone bring out the practical truths taught in the prophecies themselves. Others are heralding the near coming of Christ and the great day of the Lord; but they do not lead men to the observance of the commandments of God, which is the great preparation needed for that day; but, on the contrary, some of them even bitterly and maliciously oppose this work. They talk about holiness and a preparation for the coming of Christ, and grow zealous, enthusiastic, and boisterous over such themes, while they leave out the very foundation upon which such a character must rest. “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus,” is the last prophetic announcement respecting that people who are ready for the coming of Christ. It is of no use for any one who keeps the first day of the week for the Sabbath of the Lord, in place of the seventh day, to claim that he is keeping the commandments of God. He is not. And on this vital point the world must hear.
The prospect was never better for the progress of this work. The truth is clearer. Its friends are more numerous, and better organized. Unity prevails, and a feeling of courage and good cheer is abroad. The REVIEW asks the continued co-operation of all its subscribers and contributors. In return it will endeavor to observe closely the signs of the times, proclaim them faithfully, maintain uncompromisingly its defense of the down-trodden truths of the Bible, and act well its part in preparing a people for the coming of the Lord.