PURSUANT to article 6 section 2, of the By-Laws of the Pacific S. D. A. Publishing Association, the ninth annual meeting of the stockholders of said Association will be held at the Pacific Press Office, corner of Castro and Twelfth Streets, Oakland, Cal., on Monday, April 28, 1884, at 9:30 A. M., for the purpose of electing a board of five directors, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. W. K. VICKERY, Secretary.
Camp-Meeting Notices and Other Items
By Editor
SEE appointment of Upper Columbia Camp-meeting at Walla Walla, June 5-16.
THE Wisconsin Camp-meeting will be held at Baraboo, Sauk County. Particulars will be given soon. Time, probably, June 12-17.
SPECIAL invitation is given to come to our Oakland meeting. Stockholders who cannot come, be sure to send proxies in good season for the Publishing Association meeting, April 28.
A TELEGRAM from Elder Israel says of the Los Angeles meeting: "Camp-ground located second block above our church, on Sixth Street." We hope to get particulars to send out to Southern California with this paper.
To H. P. G.—1. We are not permitted to hire out our teams or wagons for Sabbath work. 2. We are permitted to rent farms without any reserve. It is entirely different from hiring or permitting people to work on our premises which are under our control. A rented farm is not.
THE Oakland church was favored with a discourse by Elder Loughborough last Sabbath. He will assist in the meetings to commence in Oakland the 18th inst., where we trust many of his old friends will be pleased to greet him after his absence of about six years.
WE have received from Hon. John A. Anderson, of Kansas, his speech in the United States House of Representatives on the Postal Telegraph Bill. This subject is attracting much attention. One of California's Representatives is earnestly laboring in its behalf.
APRIL has given California more heavy rains, which have done more damage to railroads and other property. All the repairs on the railroad this side of Los Angeles, made after the other destructive storm, were destroyed, and traffic and travel were stopped for several days. Much damage was done to the road and to trains on Mojave (Mo-ha-ve) desert. The San Francisco papers give lengthy accounts of the damage done in and around that city by the rain on Friday, April 11, especially in the evening. It literally poured down, eastern fashion. A cyclone struck Fresno City last week which destroyed one house and barn and injured others. The war of the elements will not be confined to the East.
The Great Controversy, Volume Four.
By William Clarence White
IT is now expected that the fourth and closing volume of the "Great Controversy between Christ and Satan," by Mrs. E. G. White, will be printed in June, and that it will be ready for delivery in the last of July.
Most of the manuscript is now written, and we can speak confidently of the contents of volume four.
Several chapters are especially devoted to an exposure of the great deceptions by which the arch-rebel has led the world captive, and to a vivid portrayal of his subtlety in introducing these heresies one by one into the church.
The following are a few of the subjects treated in this volume:—
Destruction of Jerusalem—Persecution in the First Centuries—The Waldenses—The Great Reformation—The Two Witnesses—The First Angel's Message—A Tarrying Time—The Midnight Cry—The Sanctuary—An Open and a Shut Door—The Advent Movement Foretold in Prophecy—The Seal of God—Origin of Evil—Agency of Evil Spirits—Spiritualism—Snares of Satan—The Loud Cry—The Time of Trouble—God's People Delivered—The Earth Desolated—The Controversy Ended.
Earnest Christians of all denominations will find in it encouragement and instruction in the delineation of the struggle maintained by men raised up of God in each successive age to preserve the pure and true religion, and they will see that the world has been led to accept one after another of Satan's devices till her teachers are corrupted with false doctrines and with infidelity.
While reading the manuscript of this volume we have been deeply impressed with the importance of placing it, as soon as published, in the hands of thoughtful people of all sects and classes; therefore we have decided to employ agents and sell this with the three preceding volumes on the subscription plan.
We have prepared a prospectus book of 80 pages containing contents, and sample pages of volume four, and a list of the subjects treated in volumes one, two, and three. The two styles in which these volumes are bound are also shown in the prospectus.
For several years volumes one, two, and three have been upon the market, and although highly prized by those who have read them, not one fourth as many have been sold as ought to have been in this time. We hope by the subscription plan to deliver, as many of volume four in the next six months as has been sold of all the other volumes in the last six years.
To accomplish this, we want a faithful agent in every town, city, and village in the land. We shall offer to each State Tract Society the general agency of this work for the territory covered by the society, therefore all desired information about this work may be obtained of the Secretary of your State Tract Society or the Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.