In Our Next Issue by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 23, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 21.

In Our Next Issue

By Editor

Our next issue will bear date of January 6. It will be a sixteen-page issue, a sample of others to follow throughout the year.

There will be no paper next week. We promised but fifty numbers; this is fifty-two. There are fifty-three Wednesdays in 1908.

In Our Next Issue.

In our January 6 number will be a report direct from the great church federation meeting held this month in Philadelphia. There will be many other good things.

December 3, the news came that President Nord Alexis, of Hayti, had taken refuge on a German ship, and that General Simon was in command of the city, everywhere received with the greatest enthusiasm and welcomed as a deliverer.

The monthly "Signs of the Times" is an entirely separate periodical from this journal, which is weekly. We say this not because there is not the greatest harmony between them, but for the benefit of our correspondents. The editor of the monthly is Asa Oscar Tait. Articles and communications to the editor should be sent to him. The weekly is under the same editorial management it has been for some years.

Do you wish to make your friend a New Year's present, a gift which will stay with him? There is nothing more appropriate than a good, weekly paper. And where can you find one which will teach more Bible up-to-date truth than the SIGNS will for 1909? He or she may not agree with it altogether, but the candid reader will find more and more to agree with as the days go by. And then is it not worth while to have a paper which stands for something? that has convictions? that holds to the Bible? These are days of shifting sands; is it not time to stand on the Rock?

The Bible has been well likened to a solid rock cube. Men overturn it, but it is just as broad-based, just as solid, just as firm and secure as ever. Man may remove it a little farther away; he alone is the loser. Next time the Bible meets him it is just as strong, just as square, just as settled as ever. There is no overthrowing of the Bible. Man may be rebellious and lose his hold on God, but the word abides steadfast forever—a rock of refuge for all who flee to it in faith.

The "Signs of the Times" is glad to commend the courage and decision of The Boston Herald to abandon the publication of the comic supplement in connection with its Sunday issues. What a blessed thing it would be if the whole daily press in the United States would follow suit. Even the little humor, a thing which was manifested in the comic supplement when it first started, has been worn out, and of all the inane, senseless, mischievous, inartistic things for a long time, the colored comic section of the Sunday paper bears off the palm. The Boston Herald should be repaid by increased circulation.