About Us
In 1848, at the home of Otis Nichols in Dorchester (near Boston), Massachusetts, the brethren were studying and praying concerning their responsibility to herald the light that the Lord had caused to shine upon their pathway. As they studied, Ellen White was taken off in vision, and in this revelation, she was shown the duty of the brethren to publish this light. She recounts the incident in Life Sketches.
After coming out of vision, I said to my husband: ‘I have a message for you. You must begin to print a little paper and send it out to the people. Let it be small at first; but as the people read, they will send you means with which to print, and it will be a success from the first. From this small beginning it was shown to me to be like streams of light that went clear round the world.’Life
– Sketches p.125.
The vision was a divine directive, and James White felt the compulsion to move forward by faith. So, with his seventy-five cent Bible and concordance with both covers torn off, James White began to prepare the articles on the Sabbath truth and other kindred topics to be printed in a little paper. Using a printing company in Middletown Connecticut a thousand copies of the paper were printed. James White transported them from the Middletown printing office to the Belden home where he and Ellen had found a temporary refuge. The little sheet was six by nine inches in size and contained eight pages. It bore the title The Present Truth. The date was July, 1849. The little pile of papers was laid upon the floor. Then the brethren and sisters gathered about them and with tears in their eyes pleaded with God to bless the little sheet as it should be sent out.
Then the papers were folded, wrapped and addressed, and James White carried them eight miles to the Middletown post office. Thus, the publishing work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church began.
In 1855, the publishing work eventually moved to Battle Creek, MI for a time and throughout the years numerous periodicals were produce to instruct our people and the world. Imagine what it must have been like to receive one of these papers back then in the mail and read the treasures they contained.
The REMNANT REVIEW is owned and operated by faithful Seventh-day Adventist laypeople out of Battle Creek, Michigan. After reading a letter from the Prophet of the Lord, we felt convicted to move out in faith as did James White had done over 150 years before.
Mrs. White writes,
I have had presentations regarding the deceptions that Satan is bringing in at this time. I have been instructed that we should make prominent the testimony of some of the old workers who are now dead. Let them continue to speak through their articles as found in the early numbers of our papers. These articles should now be reprinted, that there may be a living voice from the Lord’s witnesses. The history of the early experiences in the message will be a power to with stand the masterly ingenuity of Satan’s deceptions. This instruction has been repeated recently.
– Ellen G. White Letter 99, 1905
THE REMNANT REVIEW has taken articles strictly from our past periodicals and reprinted them in a nostalgic looking paper for you to enjoy. It is our prayer that these wonderful articles of the past will encourage, strengthen, and cause the love of this precious truth to be more fully established in your minds and hearts.
Yours in the Blessed Hope,
Don and Kara Jezierski
I have had presentations regarding the deceptions that Satan is bringing in at this time. I have been instructed that we should make prominent the testimony of some of the old workers who are now dead. Let them continue to speak through their articles as found in the early numbers of our papers. These articles should now be reprinted, that there may be a living voice from the Lord’s witnesses. The history of the early experiences in the message will be a power to with stand the masterly ingenuity of Satan’s deceptions. This instruction has been repeated recently.
– Ellen G. White Letter 99, 1905