Various Matters by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 12, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 23.

Various Matters.

By Editor

A LETTER from the president of the New York T. and M. Society contains the following: "The camp-meeting supplement is indeed very neat, and we shall probably want a large supply. Please give us your best terms on ten thousand of them."

THE Republican Convention at Chicago last week resulted in the nomination of James G. Blaine, of Maine, and John A. Logan, of Illinois, as President and Vice-President of the United States. The nomination is generally considered a strong one, and much enthusiasm is manifested over it throughout the whole country.

WE have no words to fitly express our admiration for the masterly manner in which Wesley handled the law. We believe all our readers will agree that in the extract from his sermon on the law (p. 354 of this issue), we have given them a treat. In our younger days we sometimes read novels; but we never yet found a novel that charmed and fascinated us more than this. There is more of the same kind, from the same source, which we promise for the future. We are sure that all our Methodist friends will be delighted with the selection. We believe, though, that to many of them it will come as a new revelation.

WE wish to call attention to the advertisement of "Sunshine at Home," in this paper. The book is rightly named, for it is as bright as sunshine, and cannot fail to carry sunshine into every home where it is received. It is a book for old as well as young. The beautiful pictures that adorn every page will amuse the very small children; while the descriptions, historical anecdotes, etc., cannot fail to entertain and instruct the older members of the family circle. There is nothing trashy about the book.

By the way, there is nothing with which an agent, especially one who is just gaining an experience in canvassing, can succeed better than with this book. It recommends itself everywhere. One agent in Fresno County has just ordered 100 copies; another, in Humboldt County, orders 200; several others ordered twenty-four to thirty each. Send for an outfit.