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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1879

EDITORIAL NOTES.

By Editor

Storms the past week have so delayed the mails that some matter is just arriving which would otherwise have appeared in this paper.

The College has just procured an interesting collection of casts of some of the most celebrated fossils in America and Europe. These illustrate some forms of life which have long been extinct, and will greatly facilitate instruction in geological and kindred studies.

The winter term of the College has opened very auspiciously, about three hundred students being present on the first day. Others are daily arriving, and the term bids fair to be more fully attended and prosperous than any preceding. The teachers resume their places with good cheer and courage in the work.

We would call attention to the following expression in Bro. White’s article, “THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES,” in another column of this paper, as equally applicable to the REVIEW:—

“These [reports from ministers] should be directly to the point, and necessarily brief. If they are lengthy because of rambling to points of no real interest, the editor will either reduce them, or throw them to the moles and bats. Save him the trouble by spending ten minutes in arranging in your mind what you wish to say on paper before you take up your pen.”

The director of Dist. No. 4, Pennsylvania T. and M. Society, sends a strong appeal to the workers in that district, which we have not room to publish, hence we call their attention to the matter in this way. He appeals to you by the responsibilities upon us, by the shortness of time, the clearness of the truth, to come up to every duty,—circulating reading matter, visiting, living out the truth, reporting, letting your light shine before all, that some may be saved by your means, and the “Well done” be said to you at last.

This Office has issued an elegant calendar for 1879, 11x14 inches, containing some new and novel features. Twelve calendar sheets, 5½ by 7½, in two colors, give the day of the month and the time of the sun’s rising and setting each day. The back of each one gives all the information given in an almanac for the month. Four other sheets give astronomical and meteorological phenomena for 1879, postal laws, interest laws, statutes of limitations of debts, election days, &c. Around and among these are interspersed the business cards of the Office. Though designed especially for local use as an advertising sheet, some of our brethren may thank us for saying that a limited number can be sent out by mail, post-paid, for 20 cts. each.

A correspondent sends us the following item concerning our late camp-meeting, Oct. 2-14, 1878, which is going the rounds of the press, and asks us if it is correct:—

“During the late session of the Seventh-day (Baptists) Adventists at Battle Creek, Mich., revival meetings were held with wonderful results, the number of conversions often reaching one hundred in one day.”

The item was evidently penned by a stranger. The facts are these: At several times during the meeting sinners and backsliders were called forward for prayers. These were powerful seasons, and sometimes between two and three hundred would respond; never less than one hundred. Many of these, though not all, were new converts, and it is not, perhaps, strange that a person beholding these scenes, and not knowing the facts, should write such an item concerning it as the foregoing. Just the number of new converts, we are unable to state. One hundred and nine in all were baptized at the meeting.