News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 13.

News and Notes

By Editor

OUR Annual meeting in Oakland is drawing near. We hope that all the meeting-house pledges will be redeemed on or before that time.

BEAR in mind the date of the Los Angeles camp-meeting, and the offer of reduced fare. Let those who wish to go give early notice to this office.

THOSE who have read Mrs. White's Sketches from the Life of Paul will be pleased to learn that it is now offered as a premium with the SIGNS on the same terms that the Life of Paul by Conybeare & Howson is offered.

LAST Sabbath was another good day for the church in Oakland. Sister White gave an impressive discourse, the effect of which will not be lost to the hearers. In the afternoon we held a Bible-reading on the subject of the Sabbath.

VERY cheering reports are coming to us from the ministers, of their interest in the SIGNS, and their success in laboring for it. They have our thanks, and we believe they have the approbation of the Head of the missionary work.

THE news from Utah is cheering. The several denominations are opening "foreign missions," or missions among the foreigners in their own tongues, in that Territory. If this work is followed up vigorously it may come most nearly to a solution of the Mormon question.

THE Baptists of Maine tried to stop the running of Sunday trains to camp-meetings (the Baptists do not hold camp-meetings!), whereupon the Gardiner Home Journal said: "We do not ride on railroads Sunday, because we do not want to; but we should want to if they said we shouldn't, from the simple fact that they were trenching on our rights." And multitudes will feel just so, and when it is said they shall not, then will come a conflict which will be dire in its consequences.

To "A New Subscriber," Greeley, Col. 1. The Third Angel's Message may be found in Rev. 14: 9-12. It is the last message of warning and of duty given to the world before the Lord comes. See the rest of the chapter. For explanation, see pamphlet published at this office entitled, Three Messages, or, Biblical Institute; or other works. 2. We do not pretend to know the reason of the "red sunsets." Men of science have given several causes; but, as all of them cannot be true, we have no great faith in any of them. 3. Your first quotation is from Acts 1: 16-20; the second is in Jer. 6: 4.