Do we not hear more from the brethren and sisters, through the Review? The Review is the acknowledged medium of a people who are mutually striving for holiness of heart and life, seeking for the truth; its columns are open for the most unworthy of us who are honestly seeking for the truth, purity and holiness, and as great indulgence is granted to liberty of speech and freedom of expression as is consistent with order and good and wholesome rules. And its usefulness and interest is greatly increased by means of its varied correspondents who from week to week and from time to time vent their feelings in the expression of their desires, their victories, their troubles, their conflicts and trials, queries, doubts, &c., thus as it were producing a weekly paper wholly devoted to truth and godliness, taking the place of a weekly conference of all the remnant. Here all earthly distinctions, such as pertain to wealth and rank, are lost sight of, and ample scope is given to all who will, to enter the lists and bear testimony to the goodness of God, or their desires for holiness and truth.
There are thousands of Sabbath-keepers who read the Review, and most of these dear people of God do welcome it to their dwellings very much as they would welcome a tried and faithful friend, (this is no fiction, no flattery, but fact); and many a tear of joy and gratitude to God falls upon its pages as they trace in its columns the progress of the cause, and the struggles of the honest ones to get free from Satan's chains. Many an honest heart swells with emotion as it realizes something of the grandeur of the last great effort of heaven in behalf of poor lost man, as promulgated in the message of the third angel.
Many a heart is filled with pity in view of the stupidity of our race in rejecting this great light upon prophecy, and as from week to week testimony is found in the columns of the Review from almost all parts of our country and Canada, proving that in every locality Satan is doing his best and most desperate work of deception and preparing the snare which is to ensnare the whole world.
Many a lonely one who never greets a brother or sister of like precious faith, situated among hypocrites, wolves, beasts of prey (figuratively speaking), whose only earthly companion and guide to the temple of truth is the Bible, many a persecuted one is delighted weekly as the Review presents its honest, cheerful face, and away in some corner it is hidden perhaps until a favorable opportunity occurs in which it may be read, free from fear of some domestic friend who would burn it if it were discovered.
We live in peculiar times, in a land of peculiar institutions and laws. Strange things are daily being enacted under the banner of the stars and stripes, and many of the remnant are alive to the perils of the times, but I aver some are asleep, or we should hear from more, and oftener. I do believe that if any one in the present truth does with good motive open his heart to the lovers of God and his truth in any proper and fitting place, time and manner, as in conference or social meeting, or in the Review, God will bless him. I appeal to those who have tried it if it is not so.
J. CLARKE.