Writing for the Paper by Angelia J. Edmunds

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1871

Writing for the Paper.

By Angelia J. Edmunds

We should do all we can to make the pages of the REVIEW interesting, by furnishing original contributions for its columns.

It is not a small matter to write for our papers. They have been dedicated to the service of God. They are winged messengers of life, silently passing east, west, north, and south, bearing the last solemn warning, the third angel's message, to the people of this world, entreating them to prepare for the soon coming of our dear Saviour, by keeping all the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

We should be very careful to put every sin away from us, and live every day and night as it becomes Christians to live. If we do not, and our names appear in print, we shall be the means of bringing a great reproach upon the cause we profess to love; for those with whom we associate will expect our lives to correspond with the truths we teach.

Our motives must be right. We cannot work for Jesus without a preparation of heart; and every time we write we should feel how dependent we are, and that unless we have help from above, it will be in vain for us to attempt to write anything that will meet with the approving smile of our heavenly Father, and be blessed by him to the good of others.

The more we strive to get right before God, the greater anxiety we feel for those around us. We see the great day fast nearing when all that do wickedly shall be destroyed. Oh! how we long to raise the warning cry. We go to God in prayer. We ask that his Holy Spirit may help us to write, and that some word written by us may find a place in some heart, that perchance one soul may be saved by our efforts. Brethren and sisters, in the last great day we shall not be sorry we used some of the precious time allotted to us in this way. But how the enemy works to keep us from doing our duty. When we feel that we must write, then our work presses, or we suffer the various cares of this life to hinder. This should not be so. May the Lord forgive, and help us to faithfully perform every duty.

ANGELIA J. EDMUNDS.

Johnstown, Mich.