In 1860 Mr. Campbell said:--"For thirty-eight years we have never failed to pay you [his readers] our regular monthly visits. I still desire to continue this blessed service, and my thoughts are now as ever bent upon the interests and the glory of Zion. I can not agree to be cut off from my long accustomed communion with you, my Christian friends and readers. I will not be dismissed from the army of the faithful.

      "I am happy to announce to you, that we have made arrangements, for the future, to have the editorial services of our long tried and gifted brother Isaac Errett, well known as, for several years past, the corresponding secretary of the American Christian Society. He will henceforth aid us, by his pen and his the editorial conduct and management of the Millennial Harbinger."

[A. C.]      

      Tolbert Fanning, in the Gospel Advocate, comments as follows (Harbinger, 1861, page 116): "We regard this as a most fortunate movement in the managers of the paper. We rejoice much at the [549] accession of Bro. Errett to the corps editorial. In our candid judgment, he is one of our ablest, soundest and safest teachers. We feel an abiding confidence that his heart is in the work, and we believe we know his spirit well. Sorry, indeed, are we that he did not visit our State, a few weeks since, in more favorable circumstances, to become acquainted with more of the brethren. Welcome, Bro. Errett, to the editorial brotherhood. We rejoice in the hope that we can labor shoulder to shoulder in defense of the institutions of our Master, freed from all human appendages. With the Divine Oracles as our platform, and the church of God as our fostering mother, we have nothing to fear but dereliction from the Prince of our salvation. While our hands and hearts are uplifted in the defense of the truth as it is written, the armies of the faithful will gloriously triumph over the King's enemies; but should we, in an evil hour, forsake our colors, or falter at the majesty of truth, the Lord will abandon us to perish, with all who attempt to build towers by human folly to reach the heavens. Our sole strength is in God, and the word of his grace. The sails of our old ship of Zion are all fair to the breeze, and if we will but remain on board, with our Captain at the helm, we shall soon be wafted into the haven of rest."

[TOLBERT FANNING.]      

Sources:

1. Alexander Campbell. Extract from "To Our Readers." The Millennial Harbinger 31 (November 1860): 654.

2. Tolbert Fanning. Extract from "The Millennial Harbinger and Its Future Editors." The Millennial Harbinger 32 (February 1861): 116.

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