The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, APRIL 2, 1885. REMEMBER our meetings in April. Prepare your proxies for the Publishing Association if you cannot come. But we would rather see you than to receive your proxy. WE frequently receive inquiries why we should not commune with denominations which do not keep the commandments, the fourth included. We have noticed these queries a number of times; and now we ask the privilege of reversing the order for a season. Will some of our friends please give us a reason why we should? To F. B.—We cannot see how anybody can be troubled in regard to the two deaths referred to in the notes on the lesson for March 7. After speaking of “the second death,” Rev. 21:8, the note says: “In Adam all die,” both righteous and wicked, old men and little children; and “so in Christ shall all be made alive.” We marvel that any of our readers should query for a moment whether we teach that all, both righteous and wicked, old men and little children, die the second death! The note distinctly says that Christ raises all to life, “because no one is to blame for being the descendant of Adam, and thus mortal. When all have been made alive, it will be seen who are worthy to have life continued to them, and those who have died in their iniquity shall die the second time.” The fact that Rev. 21:8 and 1 Cor. 15:22 are both quoted in a paragraph which speaks of two deaths, affords no ground for any to say that we connect these two texts.