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Preface
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Starting the
Review and Herald
As James and Ellen White traveled from place to place, staying
a few months here and a few months there, they arranged for the
publishing of a few issues of the paper. Finally the eleventh and
last issue was published at Paris, Maine, in November, 1850. Mrs.
White contributed several articles to
The Present Truth
. Most of
these are to be found in the first part of
Early Writings, 36-54
.
Also in November, a conference was held in Paris, and the
brethren gave study to the growing publishing work. They decided
to enlarge the paper and they changed its name to
The Second Advent
Review and Sabbath Herald
. It was published for a few months at
Paris, Maine, then at Saratoga Springs, New York. It has been
published from that day to this as the church paper of the Seventh-
day Adventists
.
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The Publishing Work Grows
While living at Saratoga Springs, James White arranged in Au-
gust, 1851, for the printing of Mrs. White’s first book titled
A Sketch
of the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White
, Now pages
11-83 of this work. With its 64 pages, it was only a pamphlet
.
In the spring of 1852, the Whites moved to Rochester, New
York, and there established an office in which they could do their
own printing. The brethren rallied to the appeal for money with
which to purchase a printing press and six hundred dollars was
raised to secure the equipment. How happy the early believers were
when our papers could be issued on a Sabbathkeeping press! For a
little more than three years, they lived in Rochester and published the
message there. In addition to the
Review and Herald
and the
Youth’s
Instructor
begun by James White in 1852, they also, from time to
time, published tracts. Mrs. White’s second pamphlet,
Supplement
to the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White
, was
published in Rochester in January, 1854. This is now in
Early
Writings, 85-127
.