EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE.
By Editor
Before the readers of the REVIEW receive the first number of the new volume, a new year will have dawned upon us. We wish to say a word in regard to the campaign for 1879. The cause of present truth was never growing more rapidly than at the present time. And every advance step and every new development in the way of growth gives many new items of interest to report, and adds new interest and importance to the REVIEW. Our columns are already overcrowded with matter. To fitly represent the growth of the work and the stirring interests connected with the proclamation of the message, four more pages are needed for the REVIEW each week, making the number of pages twelve, instead of eight as now. This lack is partially supplied by the Supplements which have been, and are to be, issued in connection with the REVIEW. The regular quarterly Supplements in behalf of the T. and M. work are already assured, and the press of other matter will probably make it necessary to issue others from time to time. During the past year the quarterly Supplements have been issued, and four others in addition, making in reality fifty-four papers for the year. When the change in the postal laws made it necessary for publishers to pre-pay the postage on their papers, the price of the REVIEW was not increased. And now, considering the amount of reading matter we give our subscribers, the REVIEW is as cheap a paper as is anywhere published. The larger papers devote a great share of their space to advertisements, which are not only of no interest or advantage to the general reader, but are a source of immense profit to the publisher, giving such papers a great advantage over papers which, like the REVIEW, give reading matter only, and entirely new matter every week. No pains will be spared to make the REVIEW the coming year better than ever before. The truth is clearer. Every year is adding to the experience and wisdom of the pioneers in this work. Prophecy is fulfilling. Startling events are transpiring. And as the mercury shrinks at the footfalls of coming winter, so all nature seems to give evidence of its fearful forebodings of the coming day. These are no times for sloth or indifference. The powers of darkness and the agents of evil are all astir, and they find, alas! strong allies in some of the popular religious teachers and papers of our day. If any class should be awake and filled with unwonted activity and zeal, it is those who have the great truths for this time to proclaim. Shall not the REVIEW list rise at once to from ten to fifteen thousand subscribers, the number that it ought to contain? Something has been done in this direction the past year, for which we are very glad. Our subscription list has been increased over one thousand. But we want to see much more done. May we not look for prompt renewals from all? and shall we not see avenues opened to thousands of new homes for its weekly visits? The REVIEW, we believe we can safely say, will be of special interest the coming volume and coming year, to those who love the truth, and be so conducted we trust, as to create a love for the truth in many hearts which as yet have it not. Contributors have done well, for which, one and all, they have our thanks. They have waited patiently for the appearance of their contributions, and some are waiting still. We shall relieve their patience as soon as possible. But now for a grand and general rally for 1879. Time is short. The little remnant left is daily growing less, and what is not done soon, will not be done at all. Beware, lest in this critical time some neglect occur which will result in eternal loss.