WHAT OUR CONTEMPORARIES SAY.
By Editor
FROM the many good words which come to us from our contemporaries, for which we are truly grateful, we present the following as a fair sample of many more, some of which we will print later:— The Seville (Ohio) Weekly Times of December 22 says:— A copy of the first number for 1899 of a religious illustrated weekly family journal called THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, which has been published for a quarter of a century, comes to our desk. We have looked it through critically and find it to contain the best of illustrations. There are sixteen pages of pure, elevating matter, such as should be found in every home in our beautiful land for children to read, instead of so much trashy story literature as is given to them in the ordinary story papers; and for older ones to study, that they may better understand the meaning of the one great Book of all ages. This journal, fifty-two times, of sixteen pages each, or 832 pages a year, can be had from the publisher for only $1.00 per year. Address THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. This from the Seneca (Ill.) Record of December 23:— In illuminated, handsomely-designed cover, the Quarter-Centennial number of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal., was a most welcome visitor this week. Topics pertinent to the nature of the publication, fully illustrated, are discussed, and twenty-five-year progress noted. With a few hundred circulation in 1874 to a present 40,000 and over list, and a 1,000,000 circulation of the special number, the management has reason to be proud of its past successes and brilliant future prospects. From the Troy (N. Y.) Daily Record of December 26:— The Pacific Press Publishing Company, Oakland, Cal., have just issued a fine Quarter-Centennial number of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES for January. Many of its illustrations were made expressly for this paper. New York artists furnished the half-tone color design for the cover, and the photographs from which were reproduced the pictures on pages 12 and 13 were secured in London, England, the only place where they are said to be obtainable. They represent the men of influence in Europe for the quarter-century. Students in astronomy will enjoy the article by Professor Burckhalter. It is a review of what twenty-five years have done in this grand science. An article on "The Perfect Salvation" is by Dr. E. J. Waggoner, editor of The Present Truth, London, England. From the Carolina Spartan (Spartansburg, S. C.), December 28:— We have received the Quarter-Centennial number of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, published at Oakland, Cal. This is the organ of the Adventists out on the Pacific, and the circulation is about 40,000 copies weekly. The paper is admirably printed, and the average Christian would consider it first-class in its teaching, if the editors did not insist on the world giving up the Christian Sunday and adopting the Jewish Sabbath. But with the Adventists we have no quarrel. People who establish fine schools and colleges, provide for the poor and distressed, build the best hospitals and sanitariums, and contribute most liberally to their church, and endeavor in all good conscience to obey the teaching of the Bible, are not be very wicked. From the Middlebury (Vt.) Register, December 23:— The Quarter-Centennial number of THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (Oakland, Cal.) is a handsome 32-page magazine, finely illustrated. A million copies were issued on this anniversary occasion—the greatest single edition ever put out by a religious journal. THE TIMES devotes this issue to a retrospect of the world's progress, and an added interest is given to the subjects treated by the well-chosen illustrations.