FROM

THE

MILLENNIAL HARBINGER.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. VII.	B E T H A N Y,   V A. JUNE, 1843.	NO. VI.

      SEVERAL things have retarded for some months past, the usual circuit of the Messenger. The rivers have been so locked up with ice, that paper could not, till very recently, be obtained. Another reason was, that so many of my patrons have failed to pay their small dues for the Messenger, for the two last years, that I was unable to prosecute the work without involving myself more deeply in debt. A third reason, and not the least, is, that in my old age I feel the infirmities, attendant on years, pressing on me very sensibly, and which incline me to retire from all labor, and to seek repose. But I am persuaded once more to venture, but not till I had associated with me a co-editor, brother David P. Henderson, one of our successful Evangelists, whose editorial talents will doubtless be very acceptable to you.

B. W. STONE.      

[The Millennial Harbinger (June 1843): 287.]

      Barton W. Stone's "To My Patrons" was first published in The Millennial Harbinger, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1843. The electronic version of the notice has been produced from the College Press reprint (1976) of The Millennial Harbinger, ed. Alexander Campbell (Bethany, VA: A. Campbell, 1843), p. 287.

      Pagination in the electronic version has been represented by placing the page number in brackets following the last complete word on the printed page. I have let stand variations and inconsistencies in the author's (or editor's) use of italics, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in the notice. Emendations are as follows:

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