The Jews' Return by Editor

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Jun 12, 1855

"The Jews' Return."

By Editor

SEVERAL brethren, east and west, have referred to the article in No. 30 on this subject. We have no desire to agitate the Jew question in any of its forms; and we are more than ever convinced that the REVIEW should be silent on such questions. It has a more important work. To the great truths connected with the present message it should closely adhere, and feed the flock of God with present truth, with "meat in due season." The article referred to was published in our absence. We presume it is not perfect, though we think the writer much nearer the truth then, than now.

Others, before us, have left present truth to engage in fruitless discussions on the Jew question and future age. Fruitless!—there has been fruit, but of the sourest, bitterest kind. The Advent body has been torn in pieces by the discussion of such questions, and darkness and death have followed. The present truth will feed, strengthen and unite the flock of God, and gather them to the "unity of the faith." If others, at the risk of union, and the prosperity of the cause make prominent their views of subjects on which we may not all agree, they will of course be responsible for the result. The REVIEW will be silent on these questions, unless the Committee decide otherwise. We do not choose this course because we fear we cannot maintain our positions; for we have not the least fear in this respect. We do it for the cause's sake, and would affectionately exhort all who have any regard for the prosperity of the cause of present truth, to make prominent the great, leading, vital truths connected with the present message, and waive, as far as possible all subjects on which we may not at present agree. If we should, in consequence of the propagation of what we deem to be error, judge it duty to give our views in regard to the events of the seventh millennium, even then there will be no necessity of giving them in the REVIEW.—Ed.