PREFACE. It is with gratitude to our Heavenly Father that Volume Two of the ELDERS' JOURNAL has been published, a book replete with varied and instructive matter. It is now cheerfully committed to its errand of enlightenment, under the assurance that it will prove of great worth to the honest and the upright, and the seekers of light and truth. It will be treasured up as one of the most interesting and important little papers published in the missionary field. Much credit is due to our subscribers for the alacrity and liberality with which they have supported the ELDERS' JOURNAL. We have in consequence been enabled to present before them a considerable amount of valuable information, which otherwise would never have reached them. The next volume will contain about one-third more reading matter, as it will be published in smaller type. We would admonish all to treasure up every word of God that may fall from His mouth through any of His appointed agencies, whether spoken or written in the pages of any of the works which have been established for your edification and instruction. Every year that passes brings us to the consummation of all things-of that happy time when Christ shall reign as King of nations, and when His sceptre shall be swayed over an earth redeemed and sanctified. BEN E. RICH. |