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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 21.

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RECOMMEND THE REVIEW.

By Editor

We are anxious that the Review should have the widest circulation possible. We want to see it going everywhere, and penetrating into every family where there are any who love truth and are willing to obey it. To this end the paper must be recommended. The world is too full of everything, and men are too much absorbed in the rush and roar of business and pleasure, to take notice of every new thing they meet. Before they will be induced to take any notice of the REVIEW some vivid idea must be impressed upon them of its character, and the tendency of its teaching. We want all our friends therefore to recommend the REVIEW throughout the extent of their acquaintance and influence.
But how recommend it? Not by loud words and pompous speeches; not by overdrawn and flashy puffs, which are sought and obtained at moderate prices for the literature of the day. How then? Answer. By your life and deportment. This is the only true basis for all operations of this nature. Let a person recommend a religious paper with mere words though they be long and loud, and at the same time exhibit a godless life, and how much influence will it have? But let a person recommend a paper and at the same time show to all around a holy life and godly conversation; let him show that sobriety, meekness, humility, patience, brotherly love, kindness, justice, and equity, which the Bible enjoins upon its followers and which can but be admired by men everywhere; and let him give them to understand that the paper which he recommends inculcates and enforces these very traits and their associate graces, and that it is by the influence of its teaching that he is aided in carrying them out; and men, admiring the character, will think well of all the means which conduce to form it.
That the tendency of the REVIEW shall be to develop these principles, all connected with it will zealously labor; and that all our friends will recommend it in the manner above described, we earnestly hope. Again we say, Recommend the REVIEW; but remember that its best recommendation is a holy life on the part of its friends. Be living recommendations, both of the paper you sustain, and of the cause you love.