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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 2, 1878

The Review and Herald.

By Editor

Battle Creek, Mich., Fifth-Day, May 2, 1878.

The regular series of articles on Baptism, by Bro. Waggoner, comes to a conclusion in this number. Next week we shall commence an article from the same writer, on “History and Trine Immersion.”

The article we give on our first page on “The Socialists” is from a lengthy article in the Chicago Tribune. It is the view of the subject presented by the police authorities of that city. The Tribune itself, while it does not deny that the police take this view of the matter, affects to consider it a groundless alarm. But it is difficult to see why the police should so represent it, unless there was some ground for their expressed apprehensions. This view is greatly confirmed by the article given next in order, from the N. Y. World, on the Paris Communists in America. There are troublous times before us. Let the servants of God cut loose as fast as possible from this world, and transfer their effects over into that kingdom which cannot be shaken, by investing them in the cause of truth at this present time.

The general social meeting of the B. C. church last Sabbath afternoon, was one of a good degree of interest. One hundred and fifty-seven spoke in one hour and ten minutes.

It was found necessary to divide the church in Battle Creek into two divisions, for the celebration of the ordinances last Sabbath. Six of the thirteen classes of which the church is composed, met in the evening at the commencement of the Sabbath, and the seven remaining classes in the evening after the Sabbath. The house was filled on each occasion with as many as could be comfortably accommodated. Thus to suitably provide, on such occasions, for the number of Sabbath-keepers already here, we need a house of worship having a capacity double that of our present building.

The Advent Christian Times, started some years ago in Western Michigan, by J. V. Himes, but latterly published in Chicago, and which prospered until it was wrested from his management, has at length yielded to the pressure of the hard times, or the divided counsels of its supporters, and has been merged in The Bible Banner, published in Philadelphia, Pa. In consequence of this move, the question is now agitated of locating the latter paper in Chicago.