The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1886. We send no papers from this office without pay in advance, unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon for pay. Please read the papers and hand them to your friends to read. THE Pacific Press Publishing Company requests all its friends to send to this office all newspaper notices of the American Sentinel. THE reader will find that "the law and the prophets" are receiving due attention in the SIGNS. Every article is prepared with much care; every position is carefully considered, and guarded against valid objection. THE Pacific Press has just issued number 2 (for February) of the American Sentinel. Those who have read it think that it keeps up the reputation gained by the first number. It is being well received. THE Pacific Health Journal, No. 5, is ready for the press. It is got up with the same care that marked the other numbers, and we trust will be found equally useful and interesting. The friends of health and temperance ought to give this journal a wide circulation. It is gratifying to know that so many are interested in the mission of the SIGNS, and are laboring to extend its circulation. This is right; every lover of the cause of Bible truth has the same interest in its success that we have at the office of publication. Our list is on the increase, being considerably larger than it was this time of last year. The prospect is every way encouraging. MANY correspondents are expecting letters from the editor, and they must accept an apology instead. Both of our assistants are absent,—one at the College, and one at the Rural Health Retreat. Sabbath, January 23, we were violently afflicted in the midst of a sermon in San Francisco. We finished the discourse at a great risk. After hours of intense suffering, we were providentially relieved, with the assistance of a skillful physician, but entirely prostrated. We have been able to do considerable work during the week, but have no strength to spare for labor beyond that which we are compelled to do. And we feel assured that it is an error to work as we have to through the week, and preach on the Sabbath. We shall try to reform. We know our friends who have looked for letters will bear with us.