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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 37.

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FIELD NOTES.

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OUR valuable colaborer in London, the Present Truth, reports a sale from house to house of 6,000 copies weekly.
ELDER H. A. ST. JOHN reports the baptism of five persons in San Francisco, and increasing attendance at the Sabbath meetings of the church.
A SERIES of tent meetings is being conducted in Walla Walla, Wash., by Elder R. S. Donnell and Brother D. E. Scoles, and a good interest is reported.
ELDER WM. INGS attended the quarterly meeting at Sacramento, Cal., held four meetings, and baptized four persons. Arrangements have been made to hold meetings every Sunday evening.
CALIFORNIA TRACT SOCIETY, 1059 Castro Street, Oakland, advertises three tracts in the Chinese language: "The Sinner's Need of Christ," price 2 cents; "The Judgment," 5 cents, and "The Love of God," 3 cents.
THE church at Burrough, Fresno County, Cal., was recently increased by the addition of three members. Brother H. S. Guilford, who has labored in that vicinity for some time, has changed his field of labor to San Joaquin County.
BROTHER T. T. STEVENSON, secretary of the Texas Tract Society, sends this notice: "Our new post office is now in operation, and hereafter our mail will be sent to Keene, Johnson County, Texas, instead of Cleburne. Will all our correspondents please take notice, and save us extra trouble and expense."
A DISCUSSION of the Sabbath question in Williamstown, Australia, is quite fully reported in the local papers. The participants were Elders M. C. Israel and J. O. Corliss, and Rev. E. Handel Jones (Congregationalist). The latter takes the ground that "The Old Testament dispensation is superseded by the Lord Jesus Christ." The difference between this statement and the truth is thus expressed by Christ himself: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Mr. Jones admits that the moral law, including the Sabbath, was fulfilled by Christ; and Paul, in the eighth chapter of Romans, says thatGod sent his Son "that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."