Novel by Editor | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 50.

Novel

By Editor

“Novel.”—The Chicago Inter Ocean recently reported that a Christian Endeavor society of that city had a “novel entertainment” to which the name of a ‘weight social’ was given. An excellent program having been rendered, numbered tickets were distributed to the ladies and gentlemen. The gentlemen sought the ladies whose tickets bore the number corresponding to their own, and, having found them, the ladies were weighed, each gentleman paying 1 cent for every four pounds his partner weighed. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served, and all voted the social a success.” All such things are “novel,” or new. They form no part of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, nor of Christian endeavor. Those who vote such things a success are those who can be counted to vote for a Sunday law.