The Paper Chart by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1858

The Paper Chart

By Editor

We had designed to furnish a larger share of the editorial matter for this paper; but our week has been almost entirely occupied in preparing for the press, the paper chart. To condense the greatest amount of information into a small space, and give such dates, important and prominent facts of history, with authorities, as shall meet the present want in this direction, has been a source of no small amount of study and anxiety. We have labored to make it suitable for the private study of believers in present truth, generally, and also convenient and valuable as a sheet of reference. If we have succeeded in this, all will at once see that it is just the thing to place in the hands of those who are beginning to investigate the subjects which so deeply interest us, or those whose attention we may wish to engage in their examination. By presenting prominent and interesting facts before the mind, and showing, as it were, at one view, chains of prophecy from their commencement to their close, some may be led to see the harmony of the prophetic word, and take an interest in these things who could not otherwise be reached. We hope it will be the means of spreading light and doing good.

Bro. O. Davis, of North Berwick, Me., writes: "I approve much of the plan of getting out a cheap chart. I think it may give light on present truth (if its style is easy and simple) where it would be difficult to get it in any other way."

For the information of those who have inquired, as well as all others, we would say that it will probably be printed before the issue of another paper. The reading it contains, in explanation of the symbols, is about equal, we think, to 24 pages of our common tract print. Price, single copies, 25 cts.; five for $1; $2 per dozen.