THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
By Editor
The Signs is our missionary paper, and is circulated everywhere. One brother here in California during the year 1879 sent away upwards of 2,700 copies, and he has a large, interested correspondence with people in several countries besides our own. Our V. M. Societies are constantly receiving letters expressing appreciation of the papers sent them, and not a few come here to this office. We give a few extracts from some recently received:— A gentleman writes from Kansas: “I have been a reader of the Signs of the Times for over six months, and I love the paper dearly. I have now received the last number, and at the present time I am unable to pay for it in advance, but if you will send it for a year I will pay for it before the time expires. I have accepted the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. Myself and wife are the only ones here who observe the Bible Sabbath. We have been persecuted on every hand, have been charged with infidelity for holding for the Sabbath, but we have contended earnestly for the truth, since embracing it. We very much desire that some minister may come here to present and defend the truth.” Another writes from Georgia: “Through some unknown friend in the State of New York, I have been favored with a copy of your paper. Some of the views advanced on the advent are very suggestive. For the unity of all Christians, in love and fellowship, when sectarianism shall be known only in name, and the church shine forth in purity as a bride adorned for the bridegroom, is the prayer of your humble servant.” Another, writing from New York, says: “I am very much pleased with the Signs of the Times. I have read with care, and find very many useful lessons which have enabled me to understand more clearly the subject of the immortality of the soul; also the quotations are the most correct of anything I have ever read. Light is thrown all through the dark passages of the Scriptures. I have handed the papers to my neighbors for perusal; some are highly pleased with them, and read them over and over again. If you continue the Signs to me I shall accept it as a great favor. I am a member of the Wesleyan church. I have much reading matter and ought to be influential in the cause of Christ, doing good when and where I can. May the Lord be with you and crown you with success.” A lady writes from Wisconsin: “Please send me the Signs of the Times for one year. I enclose $2.00. An old schoolmate in Minnesota has sent me the paper for more than a year, and I truly thank God for her kindness. I am keeping the Lord’s Sabbath, and have been for nearly a year. I loaned the papers to one of my neighbors and she has sent some of them to a daughter in Kansas, and all three of us are trying to keep the commandments of God. We feel as though we could not get along without the Signs.”