Among the many changes made at the late General Conference, one came very near to Dist. No. 3. Our director, Bro. Mead, was called to a distant field of labor. While we are sorry to lose him from our midst, let us give him up cheerfully, realizing that our loss will be others’ gain; and as he goes to work in an untried field, may our earnest prayers follow him. Bro. Calvin Green, a tried and faithful laborer; has been chosen to fill the vacancy. Shall we not do all we can to make his labors pleasant and profitable? W. C. SISLEY.
Arranging Transportation for Students Bound to Battle Creek College
Those coming to Battle Creek College should write to A. R. Henry before starting, as he may be able to assist them in their transportation.
Sabbath Question Reply by Eld. R. S. Webber
The Bath (Me.) Daily Times, of Nov. 13, 1884, contains an able article on the Sabbath question, by Eld. R. S. Webber, in reply to a writer who advocates that now almost universally discarded doctrine, the change of the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day of the week. We are glad to see the testimony of the Scriptures on this subject laid before the readers of such papers.
THANKSGIVING
At the Thanksgiving services at the Tabernacle, we were favored with a discourse from Sr. White, on true thanksgiving, showing how we can best manifest our thanks for the blessings which God gives us, and that is by becoming ourselves a blessing to others. After the discourse many expressed their feelings in regard to what they had heard, and their appreciation of the mercies received. Meanwhile solicitors passed through the congregation taking down pledges and payments such as any chose to make for the benefit of the poor. The report showed that some three hundred dollars had been pledged, and one hundred and fifty besides paid in
NOTICE
PROF. H. Veysey will respond to calls for lectures on physiology, hygiene, tobacco, and temperance, on Sundays, or any evening of the week, at places from which he can return in season for his work in the College on the following morning. He has a series of large English charts prepared expressly for the illustration of such lectures. Brethren desiring his services will address him at Battle Creek College, Battle Creek, Mich.
PASS IT ALONG.
Pass the following good words from the Watchman around among those thoughtless and reckless speakers and writers who charge Christ with Sabbath-breaking, and thus make him a sinner of whom the apostle affirms that he knew no sin. Copy them in your pocket scrap-book, and have them always ready to meet that wicked charge:—
“ ‘Christ,’ says a writer in the Andover Review, ‘broke the law of the Sabbath with impunity.’ It is painful to read such utterances. Our Lord distinctly denied that he broke the law, and vindicated himself by the authority of the Old Testament. He broke through the meshes of Pharisaic tradition, and even denounced those traditions as subversions of the law. Whoever asserts that Jesus broke the law, admits that the Sanhedrim justly condemned him. Christian writers ought to write concerning their Lord with more reverent thoughtfulness than to allow such slashing remarks.”
THE DECEMBER SENTINEL
By Editor
The November number of the Sentinel was a little delayed on account of the Conference, as already announced. The December number, which will be issued soon, will complete the volume; and then, according to the decision of the committee to whom the matter was referred, as reported in another column, its publication will be suspended till such facilities shall be provided as will enable those having it in charge to issue it under more favorable circumstances. The principal drawback has been a lack of help to bestow upon it the attention and labor which was designed in the beginning, and which it should receive in order to answer fully its design. We do not anticipate that the suspension will be long continued; for there is a field for such a journal to fill. But no more subscriptions should be sent in till further announcement. Most of the subscriptions expire with the volume; but a thousand or more are dated from the middle of the volume, and will not expire till July, 1885. What is due on these subscriptions will be made up in any other publication at the option of the subscriber. All that is necessary is for them to send a postal stating what they will have. But if any have not sufficient choice in the matter to do this, we will at the expiration of three weeks from the time the last number is issued, send these persons back numbers of the Sentinel from the beginning of the volume to the time when their subscription commenced, thus giving them the full volume of the Sentinel. The first numbers are equally valuable with the later ones; and the whole volume is worth preserving for future reference.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
By Stephen N. Haskell
It will be noticed in last week’s REVIEW, and also in this, that special arrangements have been made with the REVIEW AND HERALD and Signs Offices to make a combined offer with the Signs and “Sunshine.” Special rates have been made with the REVIEW Office on “Sunshine,” to be used only for this purpose.
In order to secure the prices which these Offices have made, the International Society purchases them in lots of not less than ten thousand. For this number the International Society pays cash. It then sells them to the different tract societies in such quantities as they can use. There is no tract society, unless it be those in the South, such as Tennessee, Virginia, or Kentucky, that cannot use from a thousand upward; and it is expected that none of these societies will use a single copy without placing the Signs of the Times with it; that is, if a society takes one thousand “Sunshine” at the reduced rates now offered, it will be expected to send from its State depository, or to order from the Signs Office, a copy of the Signs for at least three months to each subscriber; so that when the one thousand “Sunshine” are sold, the Signs will be visiting as many different families.
Business should be done through the State society, which has the privilege of forwarding the names to the Signs Office, the papers being sent directly from there. But we think it better for each tract society to take the Signs in large clubs from the Signs Office, and furnish them to the subscribers themselves.
The object of this notice is simply to call attention to the fact that should the tract societies use the “Sunshine at Home” alone, without the Signs, they forfeit the right of obtaining “Sunshine” at the rates now offered. We have assured the Publishing Association that not a single copy should be used without the Signs going with it. The canvassers sell “Sunshine” at regular rates unless the subscription for the Signs is taken for a longer term than three months. The canvasser receives the same per cent on “Sunshine” as formerly, so there can be no excuse for not furnishing the Signs of the Times with it for at least three months. Six months would be far better, and the increase in price is but a trifle. Particulars on these points will be given in the circular. We shall expect a sale of ten thousand before the holidays are over.
Those tract societies wishing less than one thousand copies of “Sunshine,” who have not arranged with me at Battle Creek, will please write me at once at South Lancaster, as it is the International Society which furnishes these books to the tract societies. The money should all be sent to the REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich., and the books will be shipped from there. They must be ordered at once, in order to be delivered to subscribers in time for the holidays. The Signs should in no case be sent to subscribers until after the book has been delivered. We would suggest that it would be well to commence the subscription with the first number of the next volume.
S. N. HASKELL.
Be Like the Sun, Moon, and Stars
— Be like the sun, that sends its ray
To glad and glorify the day.
Be like the moon, that sheds its light
To bless and beautify the night.
Be like the stars that sparkle on,
Although the sun and moon be gone.
Be like the skies, that steadfast are,
Though absent sun, and moon, and star.