Various Matters by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 22, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 20.

Various Matters.

By Editor

AN aged brother, long a member of another church, was providentially detained in Healdsburg during the ten days' meeting in January, and, although full of prejudice as he said, he heard and embraced the truth. He gave an account of his experience in the SIGNS of January 31, over the signature of "A Stranger." In this number will be found an interesting letter from him, written from an Eastern State.

IN answering some queries on the subject of the second advent we promised to give some of the Scripture evidences that it is near. But so many other matters have pressed upon us, so many things that could not be put aside, that we have not been able to fulfill the promise. But it is not forgotten.

READ carefully, every week, the camp-meeting list at the beginning of this page. Sometimes changes are made in the dates, as is the case with the meeting of Wisconsin. Our camp-meetings are all-important meetings; our people need them, and should by no means neglect them. Go early, and go to stay till the end.

CALIFORNIA has "the best climate in the world," but the weather is becoming wayward. Last week there were very heavy showers in the southern part of the State, and in various other parts. About 8 o'clock, the evening of the 17th, the lightning began to play in successive flashes, denoting that it was storming to the northward. About 10 o'clock the storm reached Oakland with thunder and rain. The storm is reported as being quite heavy in some places to the north of this.

AT the meeting of the stockholders of the Pacific Publishing Association there was a resolution passed inviting those who had money to spare to make the office a place of deposit. Have the moneyed men noticed this? As was stated at that time, the SIGNS takes so much of the time of our presses (and we expect that the list will increase), that it is absolutely necessary to increase our facilities in this respect. It is not the intention of the Board to increase our interest; this must be kept down. Money would be an accommodation to the Association just now. Deposits here are always safe to the depositors.