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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 1, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 45.

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MISSIONARY WORK.

By Editor

THE following letter has been received at this office. It explains itself, and will be read with interest. We do not know who sent the SIGNS, but the Oakland V. M. Society voted to send the paper and books to the Library of that League. We would suggest that the paper and the Discussion on the proposed Constitutional Amendment be placed in the library of each Liberal League in the country. We have known persons to call themselves infidels who were not so much infidels to the teachings of the Scriptures as to something presented to them in the current religion as the teachings of the Scriptures. "Sow thy seed. . . Ye know not whether shall prosper, either this or that."—ED. SIGNS.
"M——, Pa., Nov. 12, 1881.
"S. D. A. M. SOCIETY: Your literary organ, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, has been coming to my address for some time. As you have been sending it as a missionary document, I have been placing it in the hands of the Liberal League, of which I am secretary.
"Most of us are entire unbelievers in the divinity of Christianity, but your paper has been attracting considerable attention as a novelty, until the two last numbers; they are considered good, and have received considerable approbation on account of the articles on the 'Change of the Sabbath' and 'The Mound Builders.'
"Several members have requested me to ask your society for the gift of books, containing your peculiar views, to our library.
"A member has clipped the article on the 'Mound Builders' and forwarded it to the Bureau of Ethnology at Washington, D. C.
"Should you deem it advisable to send us any of the publications of your church, they will be judiciously shelved with our other religious works kept for circulation. Very truly yours, "W. F. B."