THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD.
By S. N. Haskell
In the efforts of the tract societies to circulate the SIGNS and the REFORMER, the ADVENT REVIEW should not be neglected. As a pioneer paper to introduce the present truth, THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES accomplishes more than any other periodical. It has many advantages over tracts, the reading matter being both doctrinal, practical, and miscellaneous. For attracting the attention of a prejudiced public, nothing is so well calculated as THE HEALTH REFORMER and health publications. But it is not designed that the SIGNS OF THE TIMES or THE HEALTH REFORMER should in any case take the place of the REVIEW. This is our church paper, and no other paper can take its place. The tract society officers should see that all our brethren and sisters have THE REVIEW AND HERALD. There are many poor among us who are unable to pay for the paper, and many who are able are not taking it. Their subscription has run out, and they borrow the paper of their neighbors, and neglect to renew their subscription for it. Every family of our brethren and sisters should take the REVIEW. There are few families that cannot pay two dollars in twelve months. When I find that the paper is missing in a family, I also find a waning interest in the truth. Such families are not as particular on the Sabbath as they were formerly; they have lost a sense of the sweetness of the holy rest-day. In short, imperceptibly to themselves they are drifting downward, and unless they realize their situation sooner or later, they will leave the present truth. Each church should look after its own members. The Vigilant Missionary Society should make this one branch of its work. Every family should not only take the REVIEW, but read it. They should read it through each week. Watch the Progress Department. Notice the editorials and the sermon. These articles are just what you need to make you intelligent upon the present condition of the cause. Without them you meet with a loss that nothing can make up; and that so many of our brethren do sustain this loss, our missionary workers are in a degree responsible. The same may be said of the REFORMER. The enemy is watching in every possible way to come in upon us, and to wound one here and another there, and to destroy the third, and so on. God's providence has furnished us many helps, and the REVIEW is one of them; and all should avail themselves of every such means, lest they be found wanting in the day of God. When a course of lectures is given, and people embrace the Sabbath, the REVIEW is the paper wanted. It is well for our brethren to take both that and the SIGNS, but in no case let the SIGNS take the place of the REVIEW, and so some of our brethren fail to receive its weekly visits.