Items of Interest by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 28, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 21.

Items of Interest

By Editor

THANKS to brethren LaRue and Scott for Honolulu papers.

SEE notice of appointment of Nebraska camp-meeting in this paper.

ARE you reading carefully the articles on Geology which are now being published in the SIGNS? If not, you are losing something worth having.

WE are making preparations to issue the Pacific Health Journal and Temperance Advocate, early in June. Remember the notice in last week's SIGNS.

THE "Rural Health Retreat," at St. Helena, Cal., is now open—we trust to stay. Steps are being taken to give it a thorough advertising throughout the country.

NEXT week we intend, providence permitting, to resume our articles on "The Church." The general meetings lately held broke in upon our work so we were obliged to suspend some things.

LAST Sabbath we spoke in San Francisco. We have not had the opportunity before of meeting with that church since our return from the East. We were much pleased to see the increase of their numbers both in the Sabbath-school and in the congregation.

THERE is not that attention paid to the subject of church schools among our people which its importance demands. Do the officers of the churches ever speak of this to their charges? If not, why not? There are hundreds of children who need their advantages.

THERE is prospect that negotiations for peace between England and Russia will not prove successful. Gladstone is wise in seeking to avert war if possible, for, to all appearance, a war between these nations would be a terrible one. But it will come, even if it is delayed for the present.

THE well-known California lawyer, "Zack Montgomery," has been nominated by Attorney-General Garland for Assistant Attorney-General. But there is strong opposition, principally because of Montgomery's having published papers strongly opposed to the American system of common schools.

IT has been arranged to publish at this office, beginning in July, an 8-page monthly entitled "THE AMERICAN SENTINEL." This is in accordance with a resolution passed at our last General Conference, and with the action of the Stockholders of the Publishing Association at the recent meeting in Oakland. Particulars will be given next week.