REMOVAL TO NEW YORK CITY.

            This number closes our engagement with our subscribers for 1852; yet renewable, we trust, from year to year until the king of Israel comes to his own in power and great glory; when the instruction and warning of the press will be required of us no more; and we shall exchange the pen for the two edged sword of judgment—Psalm 149: 6; Daniel 7: 22, when ‘judgment shall be given to the Saints of the Most High.’

            Circumstances beyond our control, (through which, we take it, God gives expression to his providence concerning us) render it expedient that we transfer the publication of the Herald of the Kingdom and Age to Come from Richmond to New York City. Whether the move will be for the better, we cannot say. We are not hypersanguine, seeing that the fortunes off the truth will not be materially benefited until ‘the time comes for the Saints to possess the kingdom.’ There will be there, however, more ample scope for our well meant endeavours. In Richmond, we have been long convinced, there is none; and have therefore ceased for years to make it other than a place of publication, our post office, and a sort of caravanseral abode. We spend, however, necessarily many Lord’s days in the year in one place, being detained there writing, and superintending the Herald. These days require to be more profitably employed than they can be here in the nature of things. We have advised with our friends in Eastern Virginia and elsewhere on this subject; and though they express regret at our removal farther off, yet considering the cheap and rapid facilities for locomotion, they say they doubt not the change will be for the better in every respect. We hope it will. Here there are only 16,000 whites out of a population of 32,000 to operate upon. These are subdivided into papists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, universalists, Campbellites, politicians indifferent to all sects and principles, and ‘the baser sort,’ styled by Jesus, ‘dogs and swine.’ In New York there are all these in proportionately greater numbers; but then there are more abounding ‘odds and ends,’ who believe that truth is more precious than gold and popularity, and who are willing in a Berean spirit to ‘search and see.’—The population of New York and its suburbs is over half a million, with great facilities for divergence to all points of the compass. The Jews also are concentrated there in considerable numbers; and printing is cheaper than in this city. The field presenting these attractions is not to be neglected. Its cultivation is worth a trial, we have therefore concluded to go, and sow ‘the word of the Kingdom’ in hope of some fruit springing up to everlasting life. By this change, however, expenses will be considerably increased. We trust, therefore, that the friends of the Herald, both in America and Britain, who profess themselves to be under great obligation to Elpis Israel, for the knowledge they have obtained of the ‘great salvation,’ will redouble their diligence in its behalf; and remember that the press cannot be kept in operation without money to pay the expenses of the work. The friends of truth are few, and fewer still the friends who believe and love ‘the truth.’ It is necessary therefore for them to do more, to devise more liberal things, and that spontaneously as cheerful contributors, than if their numbers were of a large amount. —We are reproached by the Adversary because we are few, as if that were an evidence against the truth of the things we plead! We accept the reproach, and follow Jesus, who is ‘the truth,’ without the camp forsaken of all his friends. He died for that truth, and maintained it by his single testimony. We are not yet reduced to one; but are hundreds. Will it not be to our eternal disgrace, if we allow our public testimony in the face of the scoffing world to be suppressed for the want of funds, seeing that many of us have enough and plenty to spare? Let not this be our reproach, whatever else may come. Let us all put our shoulder to the wheel with cheerfulness. The truth has nothing to fear from the enemy. Let its friends be true, and it defies the world.

            To New York, then, we remove after the issue of the present number. Our correspondents after its receipt are therefore respectfully requested to direct their letters and papers for us to the care of Mr. Stacy, 234 Wooster Street, N. Y., until further notice. The January number will be issued thence; and when received will be a hint, tendered in the most respectful manner possible, that the season has returned for sending on subscriptions in advance according to the usual terms.

EDITOR.

            Subscribers in Britain and the Provinces will receive their papers for 1853, when their names are forwarded to us by Mr. R. Robertson, 89 Grange Road, Bermondsey, London; and by our other agents, according to our ‘Timely Notice’ on page 215.

EDITOR.