Tin-Pan Supper! by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 33.

"Tin-Pan Supper!"

By Editor

A FRIEND in Yolo County, Cal., sends us the following item, clipped from some paper; name not given:—

"Judicion acknowledges an invitation to a musical festival and tin-pan supper to be given in the Advent Church, Fairfield, the 14th. A varied and attractive programme has been prepared."

We suppose that it refers to Fairfield, Solano County, Cal. In all cases where correspondents want items noticed, they should give the name of the paper from which they are taken. The sender says:—

"I read in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES so much against these suppers that it does people so much good to talk about it. I want to investigate these so-called tin-pan suppers that are said to take place in the Advent Church."

1. The SIGNS will always speak against these suppers, and our churches will always be sure to keep aloof from them.

2. The Seventh-day Adventists have no church in Fairfield, so the above notice has no reference to our people.

3. Adventists of all classes are generally opposed to such festivals, and we have never known them to hold them.

4. Inasmuch as we know of no church which calls itself "the Advent Church," we are left to conjecture whether this is an Episcopal Church, called "the Church of the Advent," which is a quite common name with them, or a "First-day Adventist Church." Our acquaintance in Fairfield is too limited to enable us to determine this. But we know it does not refer to the Seventh-day Adventists.