Example or Legislation
By Editor
Men use slang for two reasons: Some because it seems smart; some because they lack thought or knowledge as to how to express it. This is the last issue of our large-page SIGNS OF THE TIMES. But do not get the idea that the paper is suspended. It will be published weekly just the same as ever at the same price, but in more convenient form. The first issue in each month will be larger, and will contain much more reading-matter. The subsequent issues of the month will be the same number of pages as at the present, but one half the size. For terms, etc., see pages 14 and 15. Do You Wish a Share in This?—A sanitarium for the colored sick and suffering ones is soon to be opened in Nashville, Tenn. It starts in very limited circumstances. The manager writes us and asks what we can do for them in the typewriters we have offered for sale. We have three Wellingtons and one L. C. Smith. The Wellingtons are $60.00 machines, the L. C. Smith a $100 machine. All have been used some, but are practically as good as new. The Wellingtons would be worth for wear at the regular price about $45.00 to $50.00 each; the L. C. Smith, from $75.00 to $80.00. We will donate a Wellington at one half this price if some friend or friends of the work will donate the other half. If we receive more than enough to send a machine, we will donate it to the institution itself. Let us hear from you quickly. This is the last and only notice, except to state results. Send to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Mountain View, Cal., stating the money is for colored sanitarium typewriter. "A London vicar," writing to the Church Times, says, in speaking of the clergy of the Church of England: "Surely we are the last people in the world to raise a voice in favor of any sort of legislation as to Sunday labor or Sunday trading, while facts are what they are. If we are to guide the public conscience in this matter, let us first bring our practise into line with our preaching in the management of the affairs immediately under our control—that is, in the conduct of the public worship of the church." That is ever true. Christianity can ever do more by consistent teaching and example than by legislation. With the former there will be no plea for the latter.