p. 432 | Various Matters by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 17, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 27.

Various Matters.

By Editor

THE California Camp-meeting will probably be held this year in Oakland. This is the decision, but the ground has not yet been obtained. We have no doubt it will be here. It is a good selection in every respect.

A TENT-MEETING will be in progress in Oakland by the time this paper reaches its readers. It will be held on the corner of Tenth and Poplar Streets, near the “Cole School.” It will be principally carried on by Eld. J. O. Corliss, assisted by others as circumstances may permit.

OUR Missionary Department is overflowing this week; but there is not a paragraph which we could spare. It is necessary that we give quite fully the proceedings of the Coast Conferences. This condition of our paper will not again exist; the omission of a paper last week made it unavoidable just now.

ARRANGEMENTS are being made to have regular preaching in San Francisco, both on Sabbath and on Sunday evenings. Our health once broke down under efforts to keep up regular appointments there in addition to other arduous labors. We are very glad that circumstances are making it possible to have such an arrangement.

THE excessive labor of the northern Camp-meetings prevented our doing as much for the SIGNS the last two months as we expected to do. Soon after our return we were called away to a funeral, so that we have hardly yet got “in position” for work. We are making arrangements to increase our working force on the paper. We are happy to make this announcement.

“WILL it pay?” Yes; many fold. We learn by letter from New York that it is expected that the Conference will be to an expense of $500 for the Syracuse camp-meeting. We are very much in favor of the most rigid economy in handling means belonging to the Lord’s treasury; but a wise outlay of means is the best economy. We believe that our New York brethren by thus doing will cast bread upon the waters which will return after not many days. Let our important camp-meetings be pushed to success.

A CONTEMPORARY, which occupies the same ground as does the SIGNS on the subject of the state of the dead and the coming of the Lord, publishes an article which it admits contains nothing but vagaries. The reason it gives for so doing is sympathy for an aged brother who has done good work in the past, and to illustrate its principle of independency in journalism. In such a case we would manifest our sympathy by trying to set the erring brother on the right track, and our independence by putting the article into the waste basket. It requires more independence to publish only truth than to publish everything.