Signs of the Times: Series on the Great Controversy
By Editor
This Number of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is a valuable number, and we hope to make the remaining numbers of the year still more valuable. The article by Elder A. T. Jones will be followed by others on the same topic and kindred subjects.
A COPY of the Hongkong Chinese Mail, of July 31, gives a graphic account of a cyclone which had just occurred in the colony of Macao. Many Chinese junks were wrecked, and many lives lost, while the damage to coast property runs up into the hundreds of thousands.
IN our next issue we shall begin a series of articles on the Great Controversy of the Ages, as outlined in the twelfth chapter of the Revelation. We believe that the study will be of interest to all. Now is a good time to subscribe for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, beginning with this issue. It treats of subjects of as much more importance to man than the present political matters discussed, as the heaven is higher than the earth, and eternity is of more importance than time. This is not saying that these political questions are unimportant. The questions of righteousness and life are, however, vastly more important.
ONE D. M. Hudler, of Lanark, Ill., issues a public challenge to any Seventh-day Adventist preacher in the United States to a public discussion of the Sabbath question. Who or what Mr. Hudler is, or whom he represents save himself, we do not know. Many men seek notoriety in this way, altho that may not be the case with Mr. H. Mr. Hudler further wishes to affirm three negative propositions, which, stated in brief, are as follows: (1) That the Sabbath was not kept by any one from Adam to the Exodus of Israel. (2) That it was not commanded to any other people to keep in the past or present. (3) That the seventh-day Sabbath is not binding on either Jews or gentiles in this dispensation. We should hope that no one would be so unwise as to accept a challenge under such propositions as are presented. It is easy to affirm denials. The truth can be presented in a better way than by proving to some man, who denies it that he is mistaken, or in other words, to deny his denials.