p. 64 | This Week's Review by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1866

This Week's Review.

By Editor

We have not room in any number to call the attention of the reader to every article which we think would be of interest and profit to him; and we would by no means be understood as intimating that those pieces which we pass by are unworthy of perusal. We design to publish only that which will well repay the time and labor of a careful reading or close study as the case may be. Inasmuch, however, as long pieces are passed by, if any are, we would this week call attention to the article on the transfiguration. A perusal of it cannot fail to clothe with new interest the records which the evangelists give us of that wonderful scene. The proofs that it was a literal transaction, and above all that its object was to present a miniature of the glorious kingdom of Christ as it is shortly to appear, are calculated to lend to it attractions above every other representation of the sacred record. From an expression or two, we might infer that the writer regarded a person in death as in a conscious disembodied state. But as he considers that Moses was present as a real being, and a representative of the resurrected saints, he must have been present in his resurrected state, to be such representative.

— Bro. Sanborn's review of Elds. Law and Delap, contains extracts from Catholic works, which have several times appeared in past volumes of the Review. The paper has now many new readers to whom they will be of great interest.

— "To Correspondents." As will have been seen by the Review for a few weeks past, we have adopted the plan of informing correspondents as to the acceptance or rejection of their communications. We do this because it is not always convenient to publish immediately articles that are received, and we think it will give better satisfaction to all, to know what disposition is made of their contributions, even if they are rejected, than to be kept in suspense. It cannot be expected that everything that is sent to an office will be published. But this need not deter any from writing. If for any reason your communication is declined, the effort will at any rate have done you good, and you may receive some suggestion which will render you better prepared to try again. So let your pens keep moving. Write to the point and in the spirit of present truth, and let the Review go forth glowing more and more each week with the living testimony.

— From "Matters in Iowa," all should take warning. A number, and some whom we least expected, have in the past made shipwreck of the faith; and others we see fast following in their steps. From this we may learn the import of the many exhortations we receive from the word of God and other sources, to be steadfast, and of the startling testimony given some years since, concerning "a fearful shaking time before us, of which it would almost seem that we are now having the solemn fulfillment. "He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."

— Report from Bro. Cottrell, and Quarterly Meeting in Carlton, are encouraging; and the believer will find good consolation in the article, "The Morning Cometh."

— We will only add further, Be in earnest, as you are poetically counseled to do on the first page, listen to "The Solemn Warning," on the third page, and heed Bro. Van Horn's exhortation not to be "found wanting." So will you be prepared for the coming of the Master, who is at the door.

"We are in the time of waiting, Soon we shall behold our Lord, Wafted far away from sorrow, To receive our rich reward. Keep us, Lord, till thine appearing, Pure, unspotted from the world, Let thy Holy Spirit cheer us, Till thy banner is unfurled."