Camp-Meetings in 1885 by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 25.

Camp-Meetings in 1885.

By Editor

MINNESOTA, Mankato, .......................July 1-7 TEXAS, ---, -----------------------July 24 to Aug. 4

THE summer re-union and picnic of the Oakland Sabbath-school will be held at Piedmont Springs, July 6. Neighboring schools are invited.

As our mission in Honolulu, and that now being started in Australia, give interest to the islands of the Pacific, we this week give a map with a brief description of the Hawaiian Islands.

ALL the mail yet received from our Australian missionaries was from the island of Samoa. A telegram only was received after their arrival at Sydney. We suppose they are all now in Melbourne.

IT is to be hoped that every reader of the SIGNS is giving the articles now being published, on Evolution, a careful reading. They will bear close examination, and every one who yet clings to his Bible can but esteem them.

IN remarking upon the "growing and reckless license of the press" the Albany Law Journal says: "Nothing is safe or sacred. Knowledge is unnecessary; reason is superfluous; truth is immaterial; sensation is all that is required."

SOME one disputes our assertion that the believers in Mr. Miller's views of the prophecies and the second advent did not put on ascension robes in 1844. But our correspondent discreetly neglects to sign his name to his assertions! We will notice this again.

TIMES are confessedly hard, but there has not been so much building done in Oakland in any year since 1875, as is being done this year. The outlook for crops in California is not quite so bad as appeared some time since; the estimate is now about half a crop in the whole State.

IF San Francisco wishes to be respected in the world she must select officers who will not disgrace her. One of her former mayors and her present coroner are enough to sink the reputation of any city. The coroner neglects his duty, and goes around the country inciting to riot and arson. If justice were done, San Francisco would require the services of another coroner.

WE have forwarded to the president of the General Conference Elder Haskell's remarks on the advisability of sending a minister to Honolulu. California moved out nobly to establish that mission; but she has no more laborers to spare just now. We think that the president of the General Conference ought to attend our Conference next September. If Elder Haskell should be detained in Australia, and Brother White goes East, the General Conference will not be represented here unless some one comes from the East. The growing interest and importance of this field demand that Elder Butler should come here this fall.

WE have received a pamphlet entitled "Commonism not Communism. Great Labor Problems Solved." The author starts out with Acts 4:32 as his model State, and labors to show that society or Government must be reconstructed on the basis of Bible requirements. We agree with his principle, if not with all the deductions he tries to draw. And now remains one little problem yet: How shall the whole world be brought to adopt this system? When this is also solved, then we shall take a deeper interest in the theories. Our view is that Christianity is the Heaven-ordained means to bring things into proper order. But, alas, the receivers have always been the few. The many choose another road.