"Saturday is becoming more and more a day of rest. . . . And when we make Saturday a day of rest, we shall get the Sunday we need."
What is the Sunday they need? We had thought all the time that Sunday was the day of rest that they so much needed. Surely that has been the substance of all the argument on the question. But now it seems that such is not the case. Or is it so that they must rest on Saturday to get a good ready to rest on Sunday? If it be so, then they will have two days of rest each week, and then what becomes of the "one-seventh-part-of-our-time," the "one-day-in-seven," argument which is the sole basis of all their Sunday claims? Here is a dilemma which we wish they would explain, while we wonder to what senseless shifts Sunday will next be reduced to obtain the recognition that its devotees demand.
Rapid Book Production
By Editor
OUR office is still crowded with work, and all on the very best kind of orders. Last week we mentioned the fact that on an order for 10,000 copies of a cloth-bound book of 200 pages, bound copies were in the hands of the author in three days from the time that work commenced on it. This week the same thing has been repeated in a book of 160 pages.
A New Edition of Great Controversy
By Editor
THE fifth edition, 5,000 copies, "Great Controversy" Volume 4 (illustrated), has just come from the press. It is printed on heavier and better paper than any previous edition, and makes a fine-looking book. Every copy of the last edition has been sold and orders are still rapidly coming in. One agent alone has taken orders for nearly one thousand copies this summer. As soon as presses are at liberty we shall commence another edition.
California Camp-Meetings
By Editor
WEDNESDAY, July 28, Elder J. N. Loughborough, Elder E. J. Waggoner, and Professor S. Brownsberger, left San Francisco for Eureka, Cal., to attend the Humboldt camp-meeting. To meet the wants of the cause, the California Conference is obliged to hold five camp-meetings the present season. This not only shows what a large scope of territory is embraced within the bounds of the Conference, but is a gratifying evidence of the growth of the cause in this State. For all of which we are thankful to God.
Diversity in Sunday Observance
By Editor
IN noticing that one-thousand-dollar prize-essay on the Sunday-Sabbath question, which we reviewed a short time ago, the Watchman says:—
“If among those of us who are agreed in recognizing the observance of the Lord's day as a duty and a blessing, it could be equally agreed as to what is a due observance, it would give us an advantage which we much need in our endeavors to urge the obligation upon others. There is a diversity of usage, many Christian people allowing themselves upon the Lord's day to do things which others feel bound to abstain from. We seem to be at cross purposes.”
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Healdsburg College
By Editor
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE opened August 3, with a full corps of teachers. We cordially recommend this institution to all parents on the Pacific Coast, as the very best to which they can send their children. The managers are men who fear God, and watch the steps of the youth committed to their charge, in such a way as to guide them in the way that will develop character, and fit them for real usefulness in life. Don't think that you cannot send your children to the College because you cannot go there to live; send the children along; they will be just as well off as they are at home. The "Students' Home" is a home, not only in name but in fact, to all who dwell there. We know this, for we have lived there.
Sister Burnham Goes to Australia
By Editor
THE evening of July 31, Sister E. J. Burnham sailed from San Francisco on the steamship Alameda for Melbourne, Australia. Sister Burnham has been working in this office over two years. She now goes to help in the publishing work in Australia. This makes the third to Australia, and there are four in Europe, who have been sent from this office alone. Although such demands take our best hands every time, we shall only be pleased to furnish them, because such calls but represent the cause to which we have devoted our lives. We only ask the favor of God in raising up other persons to meet other calls which we know must soon be made. We wish Sister Burnham a prosperous voyage, and congratulate the brethren in Australia in the addition to their force of such an efficient worker.
The Peculiar Methods of Riots
By Editor
The San Francisco Chronicle says that "the riot that broke out last month in Hongkong was a good example of the peculiar methods of the Chinese secret societies." Only week before last there was a riot in San Francisco, and lately there have been riots in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and other cities in the United States. Has the Chronicle heard anything of these? If it has, we should like to have its opinion as to what peculiar methods these riots are examples of. There was, however, one thing in connection with the Hongkong riot which was certainly peculiar, at least it would be if it should happen in this country. "The authorities promptly seized several of the ring-leaders, and banished them." It is devoutly to be wished, yet scarcely to be hoped, that such peculiar methods as this last should become so prevalent in this country as to be deemed anything but peculiar.