This Week's Paper by James White

Pacific Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 19, 1877

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 16.

This Week's Paper

By James White

One issue of the SIGNS is necessarily omitted in consequence of the Biblical Lectures which have been given in this city during the last two weeks by Elder Uriah Smith, of Battle Creek, Mich. These have been given rapidly, two or three each day, and as most of our helpers in the Office have attended them, it has been very convenient and even necessary to omit one number of the SIGNS. We have labored, however, to get the present number out one day ahead of time, and to make up as far as possible for the disappointment by the excellence of the present issue.

We bespeak a close and careful reading of the second and third pages of this paper. We speak pointedly upon the Sabbath question, and we doubt not that the candid and patient reader will excuse us for great plainness of speech under existing circumstances. Let each point be thoroughly examined by the reader.

The rapidly increasing patronage of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, the place that is given it in the wide field, and the hold it is obtaining upon the minds and hearts of its numerous readers, induce its conductors to spare neither labor, means nor care to make the paper what it should be. The general interest taken in the SIGNS is strongly indicated by the receipts in this number. J. W.

The Biblical Institute has exceeded our expectations. Elder Smith has a good class who study hard, and are doing well. One feature is most pleasing; students think closely, and manifest a desire to go to the foundation of important subjects, without manifesting a desire to show themselves especial critics. God bless this class. A score of them should enter the field at once, as Bible readers, Scripture comparers, and publication circulators. J. W.

One instance that shows how the SIGNS is prized by the old friends of the cause abroad we will here state. We received an order the 15th, from the church at Battle Creek, Mich., for 153 copies weekly for one year, for which they pay $229.50. These are to be used in tract and missionary work, as has been explained in the SIGNS, and in the Review and Herald. If all our churches would follow the example of the Battle Creek church we should soon have the pleasure of sending out 20,000 copies of the SIGNS. J. W.