Formerly the SIGNS OF THE TIMES issued only fifty numbers a year; but for the last four or five years it has furnished fifty-two numbers a year, and fifty-three when its publishing day occurred fifty-three times.
But now, when moving to Mountain View, we omit the paper for September 14. We are sure our subscribers and friends will generously permit this without finding fault.
If it were the mere moving of the paper, the subscription list, and editorial force and paraphernalia, we would omit no number; but heavy presses have to be taken down here, shipped, transported, unloaded, and set up there; and one week is too short a time. Therefore we omit the issue of September 14. The next issue after that, the Lord willing, will bear the following date:—
Mountain View, Cal., September 21, 1904.
Our machinery will then be ready, we expect, but our editorial offices will not be ready for weeks. But we, by the grace of our Master, hope to get along and get out our paper on time.
These are days of intensity; we hope to be remembered in the prayers of our readers.