CLOSE OF THE VOLUME by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1862

CLOSE OF THE VOLUME.

By Editor

This number closes the nineteenth volume of the Review and Herald. With it also closes Bro. Andrews' History of the Sabbath. We stated in the first number that we designed to give in this volume the reasons of our hope and faith as far as possible without crowding out other important matter. The Sabbath question, so ably defended in Bro. Andrews' book, and by other writers, has occupied its full share of space in this volume, and if our readers have studied well the evidence presented, they are prepared to give the reasons of their faith in regard to this unpopular subject to all who may wish to hear them.

The gift question has also received considerable attention, and we trust is better understood as resting upon the firm basis of the word of God. There are other subjects of equal importance which have not found as large a place in this volume. But we design that they shall in the next.

It is with a degree of satisfaction that we look over our file of papers of the present volume, and see that much truth has been clearly presented by the different writers; also review the evidences that those discouragements which have been burdening the cause are being lifted from it. Our people are evidently approximating a state of permanent union, such as they have not enjoyed. Trials seem grievous, but when well endured by the honest and the true, they yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness.