p. 688 | Various Matters by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 43.

Various Matters.

By Editor

THE President has designated Thursday, the 27th of this month, as a day of general thanksgiving.

G. W. J., Loganville, Ga.: You will find the views of Seventh-day Adventists on the subject of Sanctification, in the pamphlet entitled "Bible Sanctification," by Mrs. E. G. White. Price ten cents. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

THE Boston correspondent of the N. Y. Observer says: "The Salvation Army have been quietly at work here for seven weeks, and claim one hundred converts." Quietly at work! Can they not afford a fife, and big drum, and tamborine? They must have a different kind of "army" in the East from what they have in California.

THE Review, which comes to hand just as we close up, reports favorably of the opening of the General Conference. The editor of the Review states that "there is a more general representation of the different State Conferences by delegates than at any previous meeting, every field being thus represented except Canada, Upper Columbia, and a few of our foreign missions."

A CORRESPONDENT asks if we can find space in the SIGNS to answer the question, "What do the different churches believe?" Not in one issue, nor two. If we take all the churches collectively, our answer would be that they believe almost everything; there are few imaginable things that are not held by some one or other of the denominations. To specify the differences in the belief of the different denominations would require a large volume. Our work is to point out to the best of our ability what the Bible teaches, and thus give people an opportunity to test by the true standard the various opinions that may be advanced.