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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 24, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 44.

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OLD SOLDIERS' HOME.

IT appears that there are not less than ten thousand old soldiers in the State of California. Of these nearly one hundred are in the almshouse of the State. This is a humiliating position to be occupied by those who took their lives in their hands to "go at their country's call," and by whose patriotism, under the blessing of Heaven, we are permitted to enjoy the privileges of freedom and home to-day. "A movement has been inaugurated to provide a Home for all the disabled soldiers of the Pacific Coast." It has been requested that the pastor of each church in the State present this matter to his congregation on Thanksgiving day, and ask every member to give something toward accomplishing this desirable object. It is but an act of justice to provide such a Home before these wounded patriots shall find paupers' graves.