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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 1.

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This Week's Review

By James White

THIS WEEK'S REVIEW.—The reader will observe some changes in this week's paper, all of which are in accordance with our earnest wishes. We are happy to see Bro. Smith standing before our people, the Editor of our paper, receiving a compensation for his arduous, confining, and often perplexing, duties, which approaches nearer to the amount worthy of his labors. He needs our sympathy and prayers. You that can and should write for the Review, may God help you to write. Our preachers should send in reports as often as semi-monthly. Brethren, do awake to your duty to God in this respect, to your duty to the scattered flock, and your duty to Bro. Smith.
It is a pleasing task for the Editor to select from a bountiful table of good articles those suitable for each week's Review. This is properly his duty, to select and write. But when it comes to this, that he must read forty poorly-written articles to get twenty, and these must be corrected, and perhaps re-written and nearly made over new, his task is a gloomy one. "Please correct and publish," is often appended to miserably-written articles. The Editor is ever glad to make necessary corrections when the writer has done his best. But to write hurriedly and carelessly, and then throw the task of correcting upon the Editor, is cruel. Help the Editor, brethren, and let him have a little time to enjoy the free air of heaven, instead of toiling over your productions, and growing weary, worn, sad, and gloomy.
You will be happy to see Both Sides again this week, occupying its appropriate position in the paper.
Another good conference is past with all its cares to some, and joys to all. The Lord is with his people, praise his exalted name! May God still bless those who enjoyed this meeting, and may the blessing of Heaven go with the fragments of this great feast which are sent out to the scattered flock in this week's issue. Our interest in the Review shall be the same. What we may write will be over the initials—J. W.