Responses to the Weekly Paper Proposal
By Editor
Bro. R. Hicks writes from Providence, R. I., May 18th, 1853:— "We notice in the Review for May 12th, the following excellent suggestion: 'When 1600 readers will pay $2 a year, we will send them the REVIEW weekly, and, also, be able to send it to 1000 without pay.' Therefore, we gladly embrace this early opportunity in responding to the above, by cordially saying that we wish to be enrolled among the 1600, as above, and for this end, we enclose the money in this letter. "Seeing as I do, the merit of the third angel's message, and also the exigency of the times; and likewise observing the perfect union of Spirit and sentiment now prevailing among the brethren, it gives me the strongest confidence to expect that a weekly paper will be forthcoming. "It is easy for nominal Adventists to misrepresent us, and say, 'Psychological spirit,' 'Sabbatarian delusion,' 'delusion of the devil,' &c., but much harder for them to expunge the decalogue, or any precept of it. This they cannot do. No. The conclusion of the whole matter is this: 'Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.' Eccl. xii, 13. Praise the Lord." [The above is one of many responses to the proposal for a weekly paper.]