Various Matters by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 8, 1883

Various Matters.

By Editor

WE hoped that we should receive definite information concerning the death of Brother Andrews, in time for this week's paper, but it has not come to hand.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Thursday, Nov. 29, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer throughout the United States and Territories, in accordance with the annual custom, and for the reasons usually assigned,—the blessings of peace and general prosperity.

OFTEN we are perplexed to know what to do about obituaries sent in to be published. We are more than willing to publish all such notices; but when a notice of a death, perhaps of a child, is sent to us, and no place given, not even the State, we cannot think it would be of any possible interest to our readers. Please remember these things.

BRO. BRIGGS makes a good point in his report, noticing the position of a minister who said that the patriarchs religiously kept Sunday, for they circumcised their children on the eighth day! As it was the eighth day of their age, that would indicate that all the male children at least were born on Sunday. And that is as "cogent" as any of their talk about the eighth day for Sunday. No other doctrine can show so much nonsense, put forth in its favor as the Sunday.

AT the Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., there is to be opened a school for instructing and graduating students in nursing. There is nothing in "the healing art" more essential than good nursing, and there is no place in all the world where instruction can be better given than at the Sanitarium. We recommend this school, not only to those who expect to follow nursing but to those who would properly care for their own families.

WE keep standing a notice that money orders, drafts, registered letters, and all business matters which pertain to the office, should be made to the "Pacific Press," and not to any individual. We once received an order drawn to a person then in Texas, and the sender wondered why his business was not attended to promptly! We have had letters follow us from place to place when we were absent, which contained business only, which ought to have been attended to at once, and would have been if it had been sent so that it could have passed directly into the hands of the clerks.

THE papers are speaking confidently of the suppression of polygamy, as there are only about 137,000 Mormons who are in favor of it, and more than 50,000,000 of people against it. A lame way to put it. There are 137,000 bigoted, intensely determined advocates, and probably not half that number in all the country who care enough about the question to meddle with it, or put forth any special effort to have it suppressed. The politicians and office-holders cannot be expected to pay any attention to it for the next year or two, as there is another President to be elected, and the party spoils to be distributed!