The Review by Joseph Clarke

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 19, 1863

The Review.

By Joseph Clarke

The interest we felt in the Review, when we first embraced present truth, has not abated; but rather has become more deep, and fixed.

It is but just, to give to those who control this sheet, their meed of praise, for the nice sense of honor and right, which they have all along displayed, in most trying scenes; but far above all these agencies, one must discern a more than human wisdom, in the ways and means God has ordained, in conducting and sustaining this paper.

It is alone; it stands pre-eminent above the host of religious periodicals, in its clear and manly vindication of the truth. Here are no advertisements of business, no loud sounding essays, or angry clerical debates, or sectarian animosities. It is free to all that is pure, free to all that is comely and suitable. Its rigid adherence to propriety, its plain dealing with sin and iniquity, its regard to right and honesty, mark it as emphatically a religious paper.

A person who wishes for purity and holiness of heart will love the Review; while he who would oppose the work of Bible sanctification, through the truth, will drop such a paper as this; it is dry and tasteless to him.

Some years have passed since we embraced present truth as advocated by the S. D. Adventists, and to-day we are more settled and fixed in these truths than ever. The Review is more interesting, the cause is more precious to us, the church is more dear to our hearts, the truth shines brighter, and our hearts cry out more earnestly to God for his pure love.

We love the Review for the truths it advocates, for the lessons of wisdom it inculcates, for the spirit it breathes, for the experience of the dear saints scattered abroad, which appear in its columns. And, as a whole, we love the Review, because it bears the impress of heaven upon its face. Praise God, in these perilous times, for such a paper. JOSEPH CLARKE.