Various Matters by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 26, 1883

Various Matters.

By Editor

No SIGNS will be published next week, May 3. We expect to attend the meetings appointed in Healdsburg, stockholders' meeting, April 27, and general meeting, April 28, 29.

By telegram we are informed that the Upper Columbia Camp-meeting will be held June 6-12, instead of May 30 to June 6, as published last week.

THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Publishing Association, and the State Quarterly Meeting of the Missionary Society, were of much interest. We are not able to give the proceedings this week.

IN answer to certain queries, coming especially from Iowa, we recommend the friends to thoroughly circulate a pamphlet published in Battle Creek in 1868, written by the editor of the Review, containing complete answers to objections to the Testimonies written by Mrs. White.

Special attention is called to the first article in this paper—An Impressive Miracle—by Mrs. E. G. White. It is instructive, as all her articles are, and, as the title says, it presents an impressive lesson in the great work of the Saviour.

We invite attention also to the article entitled, "Bible Truth above Science." It is from Prof. Pettingell's work, "The Life Everlasting." We heartily indorse its positions. We have no sympathy with those who appear so very solicitous to "harmonize the Bible with science," especially when their efforts are professedly to save the Bible! We have no fears for the Bible; it will stand all the assaults of opposers in the future as it has in the past. Miracles are above science. To admit that the Bible may be tested by science is to admit that it is not what it professes to be.

The comments on the lessons in the Sabbath-school department of the SIGNS are proving highly acceptable to the Sabbath-school workers. Much labor is bestowed upon them. This department is under the charge of our assistant editor, who is a practical Sabbath-school helper.

We spent Sabbath, April 14, in Healdsburg. We were much gratified to find their Sabbath-school so large; about 160 members. A great responsibility is thrown upon the Healdsburg church by the location of the College. It is to be feared all will not realize the importance of the privileges they enjoy.

Our visit to the College was very brief, but gratifying. The school is prospering, and all seem to be of good courage.

Miss Willard addressed the people of Oakland in the First Congregational Church on the evening of April 12. It is impossible to give any idea of this address. She is thoroughly in earnest and hopeful in her work, and has plenty to say. No brief report could do any justice to her address; it was full of thought, good thoughts, from beginning to end.

THE Pacific once more makes room for some one in the southern part of the State to get rid of a little superfluous venom. Of course it is all directed against the "Saturday Adventists," and especially "their paper in Oakland," whose position on the Sabbath question he proceeds to demolish with an extravagant zeal that is equalled only by his lack of knowledge. He fairly takes our breath away by the fierceness of his onslaught. Eight times, in an article of a column's length, we are accused of simple falsehood; twice, of "intellectual falsehood;" and once of "sophisticated falsehood." We have no hard feelings toward this man; we believe he has done his best, and has used the best arguments that can be found in favor of the Sunday cause. While we pity him, our joy is increased to know that we have the truth, and are not obliged to resort to such language in its support.