p. 16 | Our Correspondents by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 3, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 23.

Our Correspondents

By Editor

We have an index for volume 33 of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for 1907. It is very full and complete. To those who desire to bind the numbers for last year we will send an index if they will enclose postage stamp and give their address. Several volumes bound, containing the index, will be sold on application.

We call the attention of our readers to the London Letter, giving a complete review of the doings of note in the United Kingdom. We are sure that there is no weekly newspaper in the country which gives a better review from month to month of the great, important affairs of the British empire than does the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

We call the attention of our readers to a notice in our Missions Department of the California camp-meeting to be held in Oakland. That will be an excellent meeting; good help will be furnished and the blessing of the Lord will no doubt attend it in great measure. It will be a splendid opportunity for our brethren and friends in the central and northern part of the state to come together and get better acquainted with each other and with God.

One of the cruel things connected with medical studies is vivisection, in other words the cutting up of living animals to see what the effect is upon them. Mr. Stephen Coleridge in a paper in The Contemporary Review goes on to show in statistics which cover twenty years that among those diseases where vivisection is said to be an aid in their treatment, the death-rate has greatly advanced. While, on the other hand, the death-rate has diminished among the diseases where vivisection is supposed to furnish no aid. He certainly demonstrates, if his statistics are correct, that the benefit to be derived from vivisection is nothing. And the cruelty which it fosters is fearful.

Our Correspondents.

The editors of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES write many letters in response to questions. Some of these must be done hurriedly or not at all, because there are so many; but they always endeavor, if possible, to help their correspondents. We do not know whether this is done many times or not; it is sowing beside all waters. Once in a while, however, we get a letter like this:

"Dear Brother: Many thanks for the kindness of your criticism. A candid and experienced judgment was just what I needed and appreciated. Faithfully."

There may be others who feel just as appreciative as does this good Christian. There have been times when we have wondered whether it paid at all to answer questions in the way we have endeavored to do, but a few letters of this kind make us hope that there are still others who are helped by the feeble efforts that are put forth to aid them.

It is thus, another speaks; and we have many letters like this:

"I am so delighted with the paper; have taken it for four years, and could not get along without it very well. It gets better all the time, and seems to entirely fit our spiritual needs. Shall continue and try to get new subscribers, for I would like to see it in every home."

Three new names are sent in with this. Another who is not a Christian writes that he has read the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for over two years and has found only one thing during that time that he questions seriously, and then, rather than misjudge us over that, writes to know what we mean by it.

We wish it were possible to publish all the good letters which come to us in this way, but we thank our readers and correspondents, and ask their co-operation and prayers that the SIGNS OF THE TIMES may be made still better thru all the years to come, till its work shall be finished.