EDITORIAL NOTES by Editor

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 18, 1879

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 25

EDITORIAL NOTES.

By Editor

No paper next week. According to our present arrangement to commence the two yearly volumes, of 25 numbers each, at the beginning and middle of the year, number 1 of the new volume will be dated Jan. 1, 1880, when we will extend to our increasing family of subscribers a happy New Year's greeting.

There have been five Supplements to the REVIEW, including the present one, issued during the past volume. This gives the reader more than 26 numbers to the volume, though he is charged for only 25. The Supplements this week and last are equivalent to the paper which is to be omitted next week.

Many thanks to friends who have sent us by letter or marked papers notices of interesting movements and items of news that we might not otherwise have obtained. A number of good articles are still on hand, some in type, which have waited long, and put the patience of their authors, no doubt, to a severe test. We thank all for their forbearance, and solicit a continuance of their kind endeavors to aid in the work. We will do the best we can for them with the present limited size of the paper.

One of our young preachers who lately went out from the College into the great harvest field, and who, having met with some opposition, has found from practical experience how well adapted the truth is to withstand it all, writes: “I praise God for the truth. ‘The pure testimony will cut its way through.’” Thus have we all reason to feel.

The Detroit Evening News says: “In these days of storms and general atmospheric disgruntlement, if a man is in a hurry about getting a dispatch to Sault St. Marie, the surest and best thing he can do is to take it there himself, afoot.” It is no small evidence of the fearfully disturbed condition of the atmospheric and other elements, that it has led to the invention of such a word as “disgruntlement.”

We are happy to acknowledge the receipt of the first number of a new Journal entitled America, to be devoted, as its name implies, to a record of the material progress of America, and a discussion of all the great questions, scientific, religious, and political, which affect its prosperity. We give from its columns the article in this number entitled “America; its Material Progress,” in which our readers will find much statistical information which will be of special interest to them; though we do not, of course, from our views of prophecy, go with the writer in his anticipations for the future. Terms $2.00 per year. Published by Price & Co., 13 West Broadway, New York.

A voter in Syracuse, N. Y., says the Baltimore American, put into the box at the last election a ticket inscribed, “For governor—the Devil.” And the American adds: “Isn't there enough hot pitch and sulphur in politics already?” This is altogether too limited a view of the matter. What use is there in voting for a being as governor who is and has been, not only the governor, but the god, not of New York-only, but of the whole world, for the past six thousand years. If the voter referred to thinks the personage for whom he cast his ballot has been spending his time as a private individual without taking any part, and without having a wonderful influence, in politics, he is a marvel of simplicity and innocence.