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 Rowly, 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.
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.
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.
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
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REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Michigan.
MRS. ELIZA PALMER, Sec. N. E. Tract Society, South Lancaster, Mass.
S. E. WHITEIS, Sec. Nebraska T. and M. Society, Fremont, Neb.
ELD. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Ravenswood, Shirley Road, Southampton, England.
MRS. C. L. BOYD, Salem, Oregon.
Various Matters.
By Editor
WE hoped that we should receive definite information concerning the death of Brother Andrews, in time for this week's paper, but it has not come to hand.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Thursday, Nov. 29, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer throughout the United States and Territories, in accordance with the annual custom, and for the reasons usually assigned,—the blessings of peace and general prosperity.
OFTEN we are perplexed to know what to do about obituaries sent in to be published. We are more than willing to publish all such notices; but when a notice of a death, perhaps of a child, is sent to us, and no place given, not even the State, we cannot think it would be of any possible interest to our readers. Please remember these things.
BRO. BRIGGS makes a good point in his report, noticing the position of a minister who said that the patriarchs religiously kept Sunday, for they circumcised their children on the eighth day! As it was the eighth day of their age, that would indicate that all the male children at least were born on Sunday. And that is as "cogent" as any of their talk about the eighth day for Sunday. No other doctrine can show so much nonsense, put forth in its favor as the Sunday.
AT the Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., there is to be opened a school for instructing and graduating students in nursing. There is nothing in "the healing art" more essential than good nursing, and there is no place in all the world where instruction can be better given than at the Sanitarium. We recommend this school, not only to those who expect to follow nursing but to those who would properly care for their own families.
WE keep standing a notice that money orders, drafts, registered letters, and all business matters which pertain to the office, should be made to the "Pacific Press," and not to any individual. We once received an order drawn to a person then in Texas, and the sender wondered why his business was not attended to promptly! We have had letters follow us from place to place when we were absent, which contained business only, which ought to have been attended to at once, and would have been if it had been sent so that it could have passed directly into the hands of the clerks.
THE papers are speaking confidently of the suppression of polygamy, as there are only about 137,000 Mormons who are in favor of it, and more than 50,000,000 of people against it. A lame way to put it. There are 137,000 bigoted, intensely determined advocates, and probably not half that number in all the country who care enough about the question to meddle with it, or put forth any special effort to have it suppressed. The politicians and office-holders cannot be expected to pay any attention to it for the next year or two, as there is another President to be elected, and the party spoils to be distributed!