Various Matters by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 22, 1883

Various Matters.

By Editor

THE post-office address of Eld. C. L. Boyd is East Portland, Oregon.

WE have the promise of a report of progress from "our College" in Healdsburg. It may be looked for next week.

READ thoughtfully the report of the Bible-reading Institute in Battle Creek, Mich. We believe that this subject opens a new era in our work.

GOVERNOR STONEMAN has supplemented the proclamation of President Arthur, and appointed Thursday, Nov. 29, a day of thanksgiving, and a public holiday.

THE folding machine of which we spoke last week, has arrived in apparent good order. When we get this in operation we shall be able to put our paper in the mail in shorter time.

THERE will be Thanksgiving Service at the Seventh-day Adventist church in Oakland, Nov. 29, at 11 o'clock. All are invited. Let us not "appear empty," but remember the poor.

THIS is an unusually favorable season in California. The rains have fitted the ground for farming work, and the weather is all that could be desired. This State should have a genuine thanksgiving.

WE hope that all will read carefully the article in last week's SIGNS entitled "Our Lord's Last Passover." It was prepared with much careful study, and we think it will bear criticism. It is continued in this number and will be concluded next week.

NEXT week we shall commence a series of articles on "Nehemiah," written by Mrs. E. G. White. We are glad to know that her writings are ever welcome to our readers. One fact—a rare fact—we would notice. The reader may follow her a year, yes, through her life, and never find a paragraph or a single sentence which does not afford good instruction or breathe a reverent, truly Christian spirit.

TO F. E. H.—We cannot imagine wherein 1 Cor. 3:5 needs any explanation. The apparent paradox of verse 18 is easily explained. The wisdom of this world is opposed to the wisdom which is from above. If the truth of God, or the cross of Christ, is examined in the light of worldly wisdom they will not commend themselves to the understanding. But if the wisdom of the world is laid aside, and we approach the cross without pre-judgment, as knowing nothing, but having everything to learn, then we may become truly wise.

NEXT Sabbath, Nov. 24, and Sunday, 25, the Sabbath and Sunday-schools of California take collections in behalf of the Association to provide a Home and School for Feeble Minded Children. Parents whose hearts delight in their own bright little ones would do well to bring a thank offering for the goodness of Providence to them. Let the children also bring an offering to Him who gave them their reason. Each school should report the sum it raises, and it is requested that the name of each person who gives not less than half a dollar be reported to the Secretary of the Association.