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Signs of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 5.

The Duty of Christian Conferences
Earlier text: The Warning Message of Our Day

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502. French Morocco, limp, round corners...................1.35
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514. As No. 513, with round corners........................2.60
510. Turkey Morocco, boards................................2.20
511½. Turkey Morocco, limp, round corners...................2.35
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552. French Morocco, limp, round corners...................2.20
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563. Persian Seal, Divinity circuit, silk sewed............3.15
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666. As No. 665½, Brown Levant.............................5.50
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THE SIGNS IN PAPER COVERS.

By Editor

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"LABBERTON'S HISTORICAL ATLAS AND GENERAL HISTORY."

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WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Nov. 17, 1886.
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By Mrs. E. G. White.
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Christianity and Basket Socials

By Editor

THE following we clip from a secular paper published in an interior town:—
"The basket social given at the Christian church last evening was very well attended, and was a very pleasant and enjoyable affair. The mating brought about by the sale of the baskets was voted a most happy thought, and created no end of fun and laughter. After the supper, a season of social entertainment was had, and at a late hour the meeting broke up, all present having had a jolly good time."
This was in a "Christian" church. If it were indeed a Christian church we would not greatly blame those who see no need of their becoming Christians. People can do such things as that without the trouble of making a profession of Christianity. In the days of Noah, people were doing the very same things; but they were not the ones who went into the ark. In the days that were before the flood, "they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage," no doubt having "a jolly good time," and "no end of fun and laughter," until the day that Noah entered into the ark. So absorbed were they in their fun that they "knew not until the flood came, and took them all away." And "so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
THE Christian Union makes merry over the regulations of the West Boston Bridge Corporation, one section of which stands thus: "And the said proprietors shall meet annually on the first Tuesday of June, providing the same does not fall on Sunday." Well, that does sound funny, but the lawyers who drew it up doubtless knew what they were about. They had evidently read the "arguments" for Sunday-keeping, in which we are gravely informed that the first day of the week is "the eighth day," and they very naturally concluded that it must be easier for the first and the third days to be identical than for the first and the eighth, especially since there are but seven. Since the Sunday advocates have shown us how variable the days of the week are,—the first day being both the seventh and the "eighth,"—people can't be too careful in specifying, if they want them kept separate.

INTERESTING AND USEFUL.

By Editor

THE "Seventh-day Adventist Year Book for 1887," is before us. It contains more matter and a greater variety than that of any previous year, as will be seen by the following table of contents: Ministers Directory—General Directories—General Conference Proceedings—Seventh-day Adventist Statistics—International Tract and Missionary Society Proceedings—Summary of work done by Int. T. and M. Society—Summary of work done by City Missions—Proceedings of International S. S. Association—American Health and Temperance Association—Central S. D. A. Publishing Association—Pacific S. D. A. Publishing Association—S. D. A. Educational Society—Healdsburg College Stockholders' Meeting—Health Reform Institute—Sanitarium Improvement Company—Rural Health Retreat Association—European Missionary Council—Constitutions of the State and General Conferences, Tract Societies and S. S. Associations—Sketches with cuts of the various publishing houses of the denomination, and of the educational institutions—Postal Guide—and Sketches of the Foreign Missions, and of nearly half of the City Missions in this country.
The whole makes a neat pamphlet of 144 pages, and is sold at the nominal price of ten cents. It furnishes information which every Seventh-day-Adventist should have and which he should be anxious to get in the hands of his friends. Address, Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.; or Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.

Payment for Papers

By Editor

We send no paper from this office without pay in advance, unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon for pay. Please read the papers and hand them to your friends to read.

Unidentified Money Received

By Editor

A FEW weeks ago we received an envelope containing two post-office money orders, and some postage-stamps, but not a line to indicate from whom the money came, nor where it should be applied. Whoever has sent money from which he has received no return, would do well to communicate with us at once. We would like to know what to do with the money.

Michigan State Board of Health Report

By Editor

THROUGH the courtesy of J. H. Kellogg, M. D., member of the Michigan State Board of Health, we have received the thirteenth annual report of that body. It contains many interesting statistics, and directions for avoiding disease. The book also contains the report of Professor Vaughan's experiments with poisonous cheese, some extracts from which we shall give in our Health and Temperance Department.

The Saturday Half-Holiday Movement

By Editor

WE clip the following item of news from a secular paper:—
"The Saturday half-holiday movement promises to be stronger than ever in the East the coming summer. A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature making the entire day Saturday a legal holiday, and there is a strong popular sentiment behind it."
This means the enforced observance of Sunday; for the advancement of the counterfeit sabbath is just in proportion as the Sabbath of the Lord is depreciated.

Solomon’s Wisdom

By Editor

WE learn from the report of a sermon by Rev. Dr. Stebbins, of San Francisco, that although Solomon "has been called a very wise man," he possessed wisdom only to a limited degree, "but was not a wise man nor a profound man." The learned speaker said that Solomon "was always asking questions about everything, never seeing into anything." This declaration is in the face of the following words addressed to Solomon by the Lord: "Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee." 1 Kings 3:12. But Solomon didn't live in the nineteenth century, and was consequently ignorant of many things that are known by modern "divines." However, we would rather know only a few things that are true, than to know so many things that are not so.

Explosives and Modern Warfare

On another page mention is made of the new explosive, roburite, which the Germans have discovered, and which is considered to be far more powerful than melinite, which has recently been invented by two French officers. Of course the composition of both explosives is a secret, but they are known to have terrible power. Melinite is said to have ten times the destructive power of nitro-glycerine. A shell charged with a quantity of this explosive would be capable of doing deadly work. It is also reported that while the manufacture of this material is going on, its inventors are experimenting with a new rifle powder which explodes without making any smoke, and which will enable a body of infantry to fire on the enemy from cover, without betraying their position by clouds of smoke. Science has been developed to its present state of advancement principally for the purpose of enabling armies to exterminate one another as speedily as possible. As has been remarked, "chemists are developing into wholesale slaughterers of men."

Saloon Licenses and Public Schools

By Editor

A RELIGIOUS exchange says:—
"Omaha has 160 saloons paying $1,000 per year license, and that money goes into the school fund. The result is that the public schools of Omaha are as fine as any in the country."
What a blessing saloons are, to be sure! It is evident that if Omaha only had a few more saloons, it might have the very best public schools in the country; and since nothing is more desirable than good schools, it follows that a few more self-denying philanthropists ought to start saloons in that city. How good the honest drunkard-makers must feel to have the assurance of the religious press that they are the principal supporters of civilization and education. The journal, however, forgot to note two points: (1) That in order to get that one hundred and sixty thousand dollars for the public schools, the people of Omaha and vicinity must pay the saloon-keepers not less than one million dollars, at a low estimate; and (2) that Omaha is about the hardest town in the interior of the United States. Six hundred per cent. per annum, besides hundreds of criminals and paupers, is a pretty high rate of interest to pay for money, even for educational purposes.

THE "TRUE EDUCATOR."

By Editor

We have seen a good many college and school journals "edited and conducted wholly by the students," and there are a few that come to us occasionally. The most that can be said for the majority of such journals is that they serve to keep the students out of worse employment. Too often they are filled with local notes and jokes which can interest no one but the students themselves, and which have anything but an elevating effect on them. The True Educator, published at South Lancaster, Mass., is emphatically not one of this class. While it is published by the "Academy press," and the mechanical work is done by the students, it is edited by the principal of the Academy, Prof. C. C. Ramsey, who is making it just what it claims to be, a journal "for teachers, students, parents, and school officers." We can conscientiously say of it that it improves with every number. Professor Ramsey is one who believes that "it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing," and is untiring in his efforts to make both the Academy and the journal worthy of the patronage of all. The True Educator is warmly recommended by some of the best teachers in the country, because it is just what its name implies. Subscription price per year, seventy-five cents; combined with the American Sentinel, one dollar, the price of the latter paper alone being fifty cents. Address, The True Educator, South Lancaster, Mass.; or Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.

Unpunctured Ears and Good Sense

By Editor

IN recording an interview which she recently had with a lady of some note, Miss Frances Willard says: "I was glad to note her fair, unpunctured ear—a proof of wholesome instincts." Miss Willard is a woman of excellent sense. While it is true that many ladies of refinement and taste do disfigure their ears with rings and pendants, it remains a fact that the custom is borrowed from the savage races. The more barbaric a people are, the more so-called ornaments they put on. When we see a lady with unpunctured ears, we involuntarily, like Miss Willard, give her credit for good sense or else for good training.

Correction Regarding Gospel Manual

By Editor

In our notice of the "Gospel Manual," two weeks ago, we stated that "where two or more of the evangelists have recorded the same thing, only the fullest account is given." This was an error on our part.
The author says: "I am not aware of a single chapter or page where this is done. My aim was to produce a book which should embody the entire contents of the four Gospels, except where two or more of the evangelists have recorded the same thing in the same words. Verbal differences of statement, embodying faintest shades of meaning, are all interwoven into the general narrative."
This feature is certainly an important one, and greatly enhances the value of the book. We very gladly do the author the justice of correcting the error which arose from a too hasty examination on our part.

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