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California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 14, 1875

THIS WEEK'S PAPER.

By Editor

We come before our readers this week with a good variety of reading matter. In addition to the series of articles on Saints' Inheritance, Ministration of Angels, and Morality of the Sabbath, we commence this week an interesting series from the pen of Elder James White, on the Signs of the End, or an exposition of Matthew Twenty-four. The article from the pen of Bro. Wm. M. Jones of London, on Every Day Life in Palestine is good. It gives some important facts on the numbering and reckoning of the days of the week among the Arabs. These facts are full of meaning, as applied to the Sabbath question.

The article, Among the Nations, is full of interest, and speaks for itself. I will here say, in addition to statements there made, I received a letter a couple days since from South Africa, from a friend who went there from California, making anxious inquiries respecting our cause. He had been there three years, had heard but little of anything from the United States. Said he had sent half a sovereign to Battle Creek for the Review, and hoped to receive it.

A letter from Dacotah to this office speaks of quite an interest awakened in one neighborhood there by reading the SIGNS. The same letter contained several new subscribers. A letter from Northern Michigan speaks of a community there where quite an interest has been awakened by reading the SIGNS, several confessing the truth, and they were expecting Bro. Corliss to give a course of lectures.

The Missionary Department this week is full of good things. Read it carefully. And may we all learn to do, and cheerfully labor on till deliverance comes.

The receipts this week are encouraging, and show that our readers realize that substantial aid is necessary to the prosperity of the publishing work. God's hand is set to this work, we expect it to succeed. Pray for us. J. N. L.