p. 516 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 43. (11/15/1883)

Earlier text: Tea Drinking and Its Dangers

International Tract and Missionary Society.

By Stephen N. Haskell

THE International Tract and Missionary Society was organized Aug. 13, 1874. It has furnished health and religious publications to co-operative missions and individuals in every State and Territory in the United States, and to every civilized nation on the globe. During 1883 it placed in free public libraries in this country over 6,000 volumes of standard religious books at a cost of over $6,000, two-thirds of which was donated by other funds and the publishers. It has also placed valuable books in many libraries in England, and supplied reading-rooms with health and religious periodicals.

It has a free reading-room, No. 371, Third Avenue, New York City, where it will keep constantly on hand Health and Temperance publications to furnish co-operating missions and branch offices on the Atlantic Coast and in Europe. William J. Boynton, 200 East 27th Street, manager and city missionary.

It has also a free reading-room, 316 Fremont Street, San Francisco, Cal., from which place all ships are visited which enter that harbor. Andrew Brorsen and H. C. Palmer, city missionaries.

Free reading-room at H street, between Sixth and Seventh, East Portland, Oregon. Boston, Mass., J. R. Israel, residence Rowley, Mass. New Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Anna H. Bradford, residence Acushnet, Mass. The ship work at Liverpool, England, is under the charge of Geo. R. Drew, 40 Price Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng. Eld. A. A. John, 161 Willingham Street, Great Grimsby, Eng. At the above-mentioned places the public are cordially invited.

The society is sustained by the liberalities of friends of missions. Donations by draft or otherwise will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged by any of the above-mentioned agents, or Miss M. L. Huntly, Secretary South Lancaster, Mass., U. S. A.

S. N. HASKELL, President.

San Francisco.

By Editor

PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the church in San Francisco next Sabbath, Nov. 17.

EDITOR.

EARLY WRITINGS OF MRS. WHITE.

By Editor

Comprising "Experience and Views" and "Spiritual Gifts Volume One," bound in one volume. This makes a neat and attractive book of nearly 200 pages, and should be read by old and young. The matter and the style in which it is presented are so interesting that no one who has read one chapter will forego the pleasure and profit of reading the remainder. Price, 75 cents.

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

A MINE OF INFORMATION.

By John Nevins Andrews

HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.

By Eld. J. N. Andrews.

The Bible record of the Sabbath; the secular history concerning it; the successive steps by which the change to the first day was made, and the work of restoration, are given in detail.

EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious Index enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian.

Should be read by everybody. 528 pp. Price, $1.25.

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

NEW MUSIC! THE LAST IS THE BEST!

JUST PUBLISHED,

By GEO. D. RUSSELL, 126 Tremont Street, Boston, a new book of Music, entitled,

PEARLY PORTALS.

By D. S. HAKES.

The music and words of this book are mostly entirely new, and well adapted to the Sabbath-school and social circle. It is receiving the most unqualified praise from all who have examined it. The music is of a high order throughout, and yet not at all difficult.

160 pp. Per copy, 35 cents; $3.60 per dozen. Bound, 50 cents; $5.00 per dozen.

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

A NEW PAMPHLET.

By Eld. J. H. Waggoner.

A concise yet comprehensive exposition of this important Scriptural doctrine; being a conclusive argument, covering the principal features of the subject upon which theologians and denominations take issue. 40 pp. Price, 5 cents. A liberal discount by the hundred.

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES,

By Editor

PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT OAKLAND, CAL., FOR THE

Missionary Society of Seventh-day Adventists.

A twelve-page Religious Family Paper, devoted to a discussion of the Prophecies, Signs of the Times, Second Coming of Christ, Harmony of the Law and Gospel, with Departments devoted to Temperance, The Home Circle, the Missionary Work, and the Sabbath-school.

Price Per Year, . . . . . $2.00

In Clubs of five or more copies to one address, to be used in Missionary Work, . . . . . 1.50

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal

—OR—

REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Michigan. ELD. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, RAVENSwood, Shirley Road, Southampton, England. MRS. ELIZA PALMER, Sec. N. E. Tract Society, South Lancaster, Mass. MRS. C. L. BOYD, Salem, Oregon. S. E. WHITEIS, Sec. Nebraska T. and M. Soc. Fremont, Neb.

Notice

By Editor

Notice. — We send no papers from this Office without pay in advance, unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving them are not indebted to the Office.

Money orders, drafts, etc., should be made to "Pacific Press;" NEVER to individuals, as they may be absent, and business thereby be delayed.