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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 13, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 39.

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OUR PAPER.

By Editor

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES is one of the very few religious papers in the world, which refuses to advertise. The circulation being large, fully ten thousand copies, and going to all parts of this country, and to every part of the world where the English language is spoken and read, makes it a desirable advertising medium, and offers have frequently been made which would be profitable to the office. But the managers have persevered in the determination to make it purely a religious paper, consulting the good of its readers, rather than its own pecuniary benefit. A limited space is occupied in each number, in noticing our own publication list. This is so limited that only a small part of our books, pamphlets, and tracts are enumerated in any one number. A Catalogue will be furnished on application.
This paper is not published to benefit those who conduct it. No individual or individuals have any special pecuniary interest in it. Those who work upon it receive moderate wages, the proceeds being strictly devoted to the circulation of the truth.
It is owned by Stockholders, who receive no dividends on their stock, all being donated to the cause. It is under the control of a Board of Directors, who are elected annually by the Stockholders. The Directors receive no salaries.
Our sole object is to extend the knowledge of the truth of God's word, to strengthen the faith of believers, and to convince the world of the truthfulness of the Bible, and the certainty of "the sure word of prophecy." 2 Peter 2.
Our faith is peculiar in a few points, chief of which are,
(1) That we accept the Ten Commandments as "the law of God"—"a synopsis of all religion and morality," as Alexander Campbell aptly styled it. We accept the Ten Commandments just as Jehovah declared them, without change or diminution. Consequently, we observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." The Bible recognizes no other weekly Sabbath.
(2) We believe the present dispensation is near its close; that "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh," James 5; that, in the providence of God and in fulfillment of his prophetic word, a warning is now going forth to the world, which is a harbinger of the advent of the Saviour. No truth is more important than this. Nothing more demands our candid, unprejudiced attention.
THE TIME of the advent of Christ we do not know; it is not revealed in the Scriptures. We only rest on the words of our Saviour—to watch the signs of the times in the fulfillment of prophecy, and to "know that it is near, even at the doors."
"Hear, then judge." Come to our meetings; read our papers, and other publications. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1 Thess. 5.