The Review and Herald by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1865

The Review and Herald.

By James White

BROTHER L. has just returned from the post office (Janesville, Wis.,) bringing the sad news—"The Review has not come." What a disappointment! We have been from the Review Office one week, and feel exceedingly anxious to see a new paper, edited, and some of the matter received, and some written, and all printed since we left home. We would gladly give one dollar for a copy to take on the cars this afternoon on our way to Madison.

The Review is an excellent paper; but still we think it can be, and should be, improved. And we would suggest that one of the best improvements that can be made in the Review, is to have all our preachers furnish something for it each week. If they cannot find time to write a column each week, they can furnish half a column, or a quarter, or an eighth of a column, or at least a half-dozen lines.

What a paper we could have if all would take hold of the work in earnest. Some could furnish a doctrinal article, some experimental and practical, and sketches of Christian experience, while others could give reports of meetings, facts of the progress of the cause, and items and incidents of interest.

Brethren in the ministry, you should not say that you have neither time nor matter to write. You can take time; and certainly, if you walk with God, a meek laborer in his service, its toils and joys, and incidents of blessedness will furnish matter for a short article for the Review. We say, Take time to speak each week to the thousands of readers of the Review. These very lines we are penciling on the train, hastening its lightning speed from Janesville to Milton Junction. Time to write! Yes, indeed, and enough to say.

But this important duty does not devolve on ministers alone. J. Clarke of the Review, is not a minister, and he seems always full of something good to write for the Review and Instructor. There are hundreds of school teachers, Sabbath-school teachers, mechanics and farmers, who love the present truth, and can talk and write well on other subjects, who do not, but should, write for the Review.

We are not now calling for common, prosy, dry articles, made up of common-place expressions which have been repeated for the hundredth time, written so carelessly as to puzzle both editor and printer.

We design to fill a column or more each week, with the permission of the editor. Come, brethren, let us do what we can for the Review, and give Bro. Smith time to revise "Thoughts on the Revelation" for a noble volume, soon to appear, we hope. J. W.