Various Matters by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 11.

Various Matters.

By Editor

THE camp-meeting in Los Angeles will be held May 15 to 25.

IN a note in the Review of Feb. 26, Eld. Loughborough announces that himself and family intend to start for California, April 1. He will receive a hearty welcome.

THE difficulty in the telegram noticed last week was occasioned by an error in transmission. Instead of "third" the original copy read "13th." The meeting in Fresno was appointed for March 13. We trust there may be no disappointment, as steps were taken to correct the notice.

B. D. A. You can procure a pamphlet at this office, or at the office in Battle Creek, entitled, "Vindication of the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Unjust." Your query, and all others of like intent you will find answered there.

To E. A. D., and others: the relation of the seventy weeks of Daniel 9 to the two thousand three hundred days of chapter 8, you will find fully explained in the book entitled, "The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred Days," and "Thoughts on Daniel," and in "Life Sketches," and in the tract on the Sanctuary, and in places "too numerous to mention" in our papers and other works.

THE record of creation in Gen. 1 and 2 : 1-3, is complete in itself—a synopsis of the whole work. The division, chapter two, should have been between verses 3 and 4 of the chapter as it now stands. With verse 4 a new and more extended account begins, in which are noted many points, especially relating to man, which were not noticed in the first brief account. Read it in this manner and your difficulties will vanish.

T. B. C. Eph. 1:13 and Rev. 7:2 do not refer to the same thing. We can only express our surprise that any one should assume that they do. A little study of the subjects presented in the two texts must convince all that they differ. "The earnest of the Spirit" is the seal of the new covenant, without which no one is recognized as a servant of God. The sealing in Rev. 7:1-4, is a special work, at the very close of the dispensation, the same as in Eze. 9:1-4, and is placed only upon those who have fully proved themselves servants of God by rejecting the worship of the beast and his image and his mark. One is in the forehead; the other in the heart. One is in a prophecy with symbols; the other is not. See "Thoughts on the Revelation," remarks on chapter 7:1-3.

CALIFORNIA'S dreaded dry season is greatly disappointing the people. As we close our paper it is still storming, after a long storm of unusual severity. The rain is accompanied with much hard wind. The rainfall in the southern counties is almost without precedent in amount, and the damage to railroad and other property runs up into the millions. Just enough to caution Californians against boasting over the East!