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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 35.

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Editorial Notes

By Editor

THE Editor is still absent in Nevada. He will return before the issue of another paper, in which he will doubtless give a more extended notice of the camp-meeting than appeared last week.
WE would call the attention of all to the notice of the new work on the Atonement, which will be found on the preceding page. Orders for the book will now be filled as fast as received.
IT happens that both our own lesson and the International Lesson for this week are review lessons. The International committee provided no lesson for the last Sunday of each quarter, leaving each school free to conduct its own review, or to insert a temperance lesson. In our own lesson all the points have been commented upon, so we simply print the questions, in order that none may lose the connection.
WE were made very sad Sabbath morning by the receipt of a telegram announcing the death of Sister Barbara Rice. For five years she served the cause in this State, as efficient secretary of the Tract Society, and also of the Conference. Not only the Oakland church, of which she was a member, but all who knew her, will mourn her loss as that of a beloved sister and a faithful Christian worker.
IT was our good fortune to listen, last Sunday, to a most eloquent sermon by Bishop Foss, of the M. E. Church. The text was, "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." John 20:30, 31. The sermon was a brief but clear analysis of the four Gospels, their characteristics and purpose, and a powerful statement of the nature and character of Christ himself, and of the nature of his work. The "old, old story" was told with a vividness that must certainly have left a lasting impress on many hearts.