Contents of the Signs

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

Contents of the Signs.

WE have not considered it necessary to call attention to the contents of our paper, trusting confidently in the judgment of our readers, that they will appreciate the many articles of real weight and merit which appear in it. Chief among these we place the series of articles on the first page of each paper, by Mrs. E. G. White. The closing paragraph of the article in No. 3, Jan. 19, reads as follows:—

The law of God was not given to the Jews alone. It is of world-wide and perpetual obligation. "He that offendeth in one point is guilty of all." Its ten precepts are like a chain of ten links. If one link is broken, the chain becomes worthless. Not a single precept can be revoked or changed to save the transgressor. While families and nations exist; while property, life, and character must be guarded; while good and evil are antagonistic, and a blessing or a curse must follow the acts of men—so long must the divine law control us. When God no longer requires men to love him supremely, to reverence his name, and to keep holy the Sabbath; when he permits them to disregard the rights of their fellow-men, to hate and injure one another—then, and not till then, will the moral law lose its force.

We doubt whether many such tributes to the cause of God—so comprehensive, and yet so brief—can be found in the English language. It is an unanswerable argument, applying the law of God in few words, to all the relations of life in a manner to silence opposition and caviling. These articles deserve more than a hasty reading.