The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, OCTOBER 29, 1885. READ the Prospectus of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for 1886, on the preceding page. Also show it to your neighbors. FROM Brother A. La Rue we have received copies of Honolulu papers noticing the mission work in the islands. The work done by our missionaries is meeting with some opposition, and the end is not yet. IN a recent letter, Elder Haskell speaks most encouragingly of the success of the missionary work in Australia. Of the canvassing work he says: "Brother Arnold has taken about three hundred orders for 'Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.' He has taken as high as eleven orders in one day, and usually averages about six or eight, or from thirty to forty per week." ALL our readers will be interested in Brother White's report of the Swiss Conference, found on another page. We have also on hand, to appear next week, quite a full report of the European Council of Seventh-day Adventists, recently held in Basel. We have read it with the deepest interest. We shall also give some extracts from a very interesting letter from Sister White. We are glad to hear from our co-laborers across the water, and we are sure that all friends of the cause will look with the greatest eagerness for reports from them. THE Sabbath Memorial for October has just reached us. This number seems to us more than usually interesting. The article on "Sunday Guess-Work" is one that we would like to have everybody read. The Memorial is doing faithful work for the Sabbath of the Lord, trying to induce men to walk in the "old paths." The subscription price is only thirty cents a year, post-paid, and our American Sabbath-keepers would do themselves as well as the editor a favor by sending that amount to W. M. Jones, 56 Mildmay Park, London, N. AGAIN we would call attention to the bound volumes of the "Testimonies for the Church," Vol. 4 of which, containing nearly 700 pages, is now on our table. The entire set can now be furnished promptly, substantially bound in cloth, for $6.00. We regard this as extremely low, since there are about twenty-six hundred pages of reading matter in the set. There are few publishers who furnish an equal quantity of reading matter, in as good shape, for so little money. Such books could not be bought at the book stores for less than $2.00. And when we take into consideration the quality of that which they contain, we think they are cheap at any price. Let the orders for them come in, and then let them be read with carefulness. WE have now on hand a new lot of binders for the SIGNS, which we can furnish, post-paid, at the low price of one dollar apiece. A new volume will soon begin, and many will want to preserve the valuable information which it will contain, for future reference. When a series of articles on any subject is completed, if a person can read the whole in one connection, his interest in it will be much greater, and his knowledge of it much increased. But ordinarily some of the papers will be lost or soiled, so that such connected reading is impossible. By means of this binder, the papers may be preserved and kept clean, ready for reference at any time. When no more than two papers are in the binder, it forms as perfect a book as though it contained the whole volume. Those who wish to keep all their papers, can do so by obtaining a new binder each year, and the expense will be less than it would to have them bound at the close of the year. With the binder, your papers are bound all the time. We would not be without one.