The Review and Herald by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1878

The Review and Herald.

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Battle Creek, Mich., Fifth-Day, Nov. 28, 1878.

THURSDAY, Nov. 28, is appointed by the Governor of Michigan as a day of Public Thanksgiving.

To-day, Nov. 25, the bell has been removed from the old church, and has given its first utterances from the tower of the Tabernacle.

Do not overlook nor pass by the important article on our first page. Read it once without fail, twice if convenient, three times if possible. And then ever after put it in practice.

The article, “A dark but True Picture,” in another column, is said to have been written by Mr. E. P. Whipple, one of the best essayists and literary critics in the country.

Speaking of the pre-millenarian view, the Independent says that “the history of the church is black with the story of its demoralizing effect when preached to the common people.” Rome thinks just so of the Bible itself.

The Wesleyan Methodist Conferences, with the exception of Wisconsin and Tennessee, before which the subject was not brought, have unanimously adopted resolutions very full and explicit in behalf of the National Reform movement. This denomination has 17 annual Conferences, 600 ministers, and nearly 30,000 members.

A movement is already set on foot by citizens of New York toward the holding of an International Exhibition in that city in 1889, the centennial anniversary of the adoption of the United States Constitution. “The same occasion, or a date chosen soon afterward,” says the Christian Statesman, “will seem to some a fitting time for the revising of the National Constitution; and it is possible that a Convention will be called in due time for that purpose.” We greatly miscalculate on the celerity of movements in these last days, if this is not brought about long before the date named.