Editorial Notes and Items of Interest
By Editor
WE regret to chronicle a break in the articles "Review of Sunday Legislation in Century Nineteen." By some mishap it failed to reach us. It will doubtless appear in the next number. IN our Home department will be found a "Dream Story," which should not, in the truths it teaches, be a dream to our readers. It presents a similitude of hard, cold facts in the world of poverty, and presents wholesome principles which should mould the lives of all Christians. THE Midwinter Fair of San Francisco opened in a blaze of glory, in true California style. It is said that no great exposition of its kind was ever before so fully completed at the time of its formal opening as was this. It presents many attractive and interesting sights, and is in itself a miniature world. MANY of our correspondents have asked explanation of 2 Corinthians 3. We have not space for an explanation of that scripture at present. We hope soon to give an article on that chapter, which we believe will be helpful to all who desire to know the truth. Let those who have asked for such keep watch. In the meantime let them study God's word, by the aid of his Spirit. THE Literary Digest of January 20 has the following note:— The observance of the Jewish Sabbath is threatened. The movement against it, among the Hebrews of London, began several years ago, and that feelings have been quietly gathering force is shown by a letter of "A Jew," to which the Pall Mall Gazette, London, gave prominence the other day. The writer enforces his plea for a transference of the Jewish Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, with great force and eloquence. All this is to be expected. The true Sabbath keeper is the one who acknowledges God as supreme in all things. By faith he accepts God's ways, God's wisdom, God's commandments; but these are revealed through Jesus Christ, and for all these the Sabbath stands. All who will not accept Christ will give up the seventh-day Sabbath. And the time is not far distant when the Jews who reject Christ will have repudiated his day, and yet be deceived by their own wisdom in accepting a pseudo-Sabbath of the Lord, the first day of the week. When men's minds are blinded, by expediency or profit, to the plain commands of God, it is easy to lose all discrimination between the common and holy, the unclean and the clean. The Jews among others are becoming drunken with the wine of Babylon's fornication, and, like Nadab and Abihu of old, are offering "strange fire" on God's altar. THE little sketch of "Remarkable Thunder and Hail Storms" in another column is suggestive of that time when the "treasures of the hail," which God has "reserved against the time of trouble," fall upon a guilty world. Of that hailstorm it is said that every stone is "about the weight of a talent." Rev. 16:21. ATTENTION is called to the article on "The National Christianity Question," which will be finished in our next number. This number of the SIGNS and the next should be placed in the hands of those who have become imbued with the "Christian nation" idea. Read also in this connection the article—also concluded next week—entitled "Religious Liberty versus Religious Tyranny." THE latest report is that Joan of Arc will not be made a saint. The esteem in which she is held is said to be only a consequence of the patriotic part she played in France, and that has been greatly overestimated; while, on the other hand, no single miracle was accomplished by her prayers or intercessions. She therefore lacks the qualifications, and cannot be canonized. Some we presume will be disappointed, but it will be no loss to Joan of Arc.