CLOSE OF THE VOLUME by Editor

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

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

CLOSE OF THE VOLUME.

By Editor

It was the aim, when this volume commenced, to give, besides the continual flow of good reports from the great harvest field, a large variety of doctrinal articles, on all the prominent points of our faith; practical articles to stir up to holiness of heart and godly living; warnings, to guard against spiritual dangers; admonitions, to prompt to the discharge of imperative duties; exhortations to watchfulness of the signs of the times; notes of the more important secular and political events transpiring in the world; and items calling attention to significant movements, religious or otherwise, that the reader might have a general idea of passing events, the progress of our cause, the signs of the times, and the foundations of our faith, and so be edified, or built up, in the service of Christ.

How well this aim has been met, the twenty-five numbers of this volume are, of course, the only competent witnesses. But the testimony is now all in, and the reader can make up his verdict. While we are conscious of many imperfections and failures, we trust the verdict will at least concede an evident intention and effort to reach the high aim cherished from the beginning.

This aim we shall still cherish, and the efforts we shall try to increase in efficiency and multiply in number; and with whatever power may come from increased experience, with the continued co-operation of our friends and patrons, and with the Holy Spirit, without which we can do nothing, given the place of chief factor in the accomplishment of the work, the paper can and will be made still better than it ever has been.