The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, vol. 75

June 14, 1898

“Evangelistic Temperance. What Is Not Good Food” The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 75, 25, p. 377.

II

IN last week’s article the principle was stated that anything, the effect of which is only to stimulate, is not food, and therefore is not to be used all; and its correlative, that anything that carries with it any stimulant is not good food, and is therefore not to be used if it is possible to avoid it. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.1

This is one of the reasons that flesh-meats are not good food. Flesh-meats have in them stimulating properties akin to those in tea, coffee, cocoa, etc. Perhaps we had better have the proofs of this statement, too, so here they are. The “Encyclopedia Britannica,” in discussing tea and its kindred stimulants, says:— ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.2

“The theobromine of cocoa is closely allied to theine, and the characteristic components of the extract of meat shows certain points of contact with these stimulant bodies.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.3

And Dr. Foote rights on this point as follows:— ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.4

“All flesh contains excrementitious products, upon which depend its so-called stimulating properties, as well as the strong or distinct flavors which may take the flesh of the feeders. Those who are unaccustomed to the use of meat are, by its occasional use, noticeably stimulated by the so-called ‘extractive matters’—so-called because they can be extracted in the laboratory, though it is not possible to eliminate them from the butcher’s meat. The Abyssinians other tribes addicted to occasional gluttonous sprees, when they consume immense quantities of raw meat, have been observed to exhibit signs of intoxication, as if stimulated with wine.... It is a common observation that children are made restless, irrigable, and quarrelsome by much meat-eating, due to the fact that they are very susceptible to it stimulating properties.... The origin, nature, and effects of... these extractive matters ... are analogous to those of alcohol and ammonia. Every drop of venous blood is laden with them, so much so that if an animal is not well bled it is killed, the meat is rendered quickly putrescent, and is not a safe food. All waste products of living tissues, when applied to other living tissues, produce the effects which are called stimulating. To the hungry stomach and faint heart these affects give a sort of quick satisfaction, and this is soon followed by the more staying gratification of the real food properties of the meat.... Meat-eaters are generally impatient of any delay of their meals beyond the usual hours; they miss their accustomed stimulus at the expected time. The stimulating effects of meat are probably the cause of that habit of the system which makes it seem sometimes unwise as well as difficult to do without it. Those who are prompted by their finer feelings to rid themselves of what they have come to regard as a savage propensity, are often held in the strong bonds of appetite and habit, and reluctantly conclude that it will be ‘unnatural’ for them to do without it.”—“Food: What’s Best to Eat,” pages 18, 19. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.5

After these plain statements of scientific authorities as to the stimulating properties of flesh-meats, perhaps I may be allowed to present, without being counted an extremist on health reform or the Testimonies, the statement the Lord made to us thirty years ago, that “meat stimulates.”—Testimonies for the Church 2:486. And in view of the fact that so “high” and authority as the “Britannica” shows the stimulating effects of the extract of meat to be akin to the stimulating effects of tea and coffee, it may not be to “strong meat” to present a statement to the same effect upon the authority of the Lord from the Testimonies:— ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.6

“We do not hesitate to say that flesh meat is not necessary for health or strength. If used it is because a depraved appetite craves it. Its use excites the animal propensities to increased activity and strengthens the animal passions. When the animal propensities are increased, the intellectual and moral powers are decreased. The use of the flesh of animals tends to cause a grossness of body and benumbs the fine sensibilities of the mind.”—Id., 63. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.7

This and other statements concerning the injury is the effects of flesh-meats are followed immediately with the statement of the injury is effects of tea and coffee. Thus these things are classed together in the Testimonies, just as they are by the scientific authority. And this was done for us thirty years ago. Shall we, then, allow the evil effects of the stimulant in flesh-meats to hold us “in the strong bonds of appetite and habit,” any more than we shall allow the kindred stimulants in tea and coffee and cocoa to hold and injure us?—Not if we are to be temperance in all things; not if we are to practise temperance—self-control—indeed. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.8

There is another thing which should be mentioned in this connection before we close,—a thing that makes me much more injuries than it would otherwise be, and much more injuries than it was in olden times. That is the way in which it is killed, and the length of time between the killing and the eating of it. The way that animals are taken to market, the way that they are killed, the way that the meat is handled, and the length of time that it is kept after the animal is killed before the meat is sold,—all these things are only direct and positive means of manufacturing those “extractive matters” in which lie the stimulating properties. Besides, such usage puts the meat in a condition where the fiber of the meat itself begins to break down in the first stages of putrefaction; and to eat such meat is to take into the system that which can only loaded with deadly humors. And this is the kind of meat that nine tenths of the people use meat, buy and eat. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.9

“Those who subsist largely upon flesh cannot avoid eating the meat of animals which are to a greater or less degree diseased. The process of fitting the animals for market produces in them disease; and fitted in as healthful a manner as they can be, they become heated and diseased by driving before they reach the market. The fluids and flesh of these diseased animals are received directly into the blood, and pass into the circulation of the human body, becoming fluids and flesh of the same. Thus humors are introduced into the system. And if the person already has impure blood, it is greatly aggravated by eating of the flesh of these animals. The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat-eating.”—Id., 64. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.10

“Could you know just the nature of the meat you eat, could you see the animals when living from which the flesh is taken when dead, you would turn with loathing from your flesh meats. The very animals whose flesh you eat are frequently so diseased that, if left alone, they would die of themselves; but while the breath of life is in them, they are killed and brought to market. You take directly into your system humors and poison of the worst kind, and yet you realize it not.”—Id., 404, 405. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.11

These statements could be abundantly corroborated from the writings of others; but what is the use of it? If a person will disregard the evidence is here presented on this subject, he would disregard all the evidence is that could possibly be brought together. The evidence is here given clearly show that flesh-meats, cocoa, tea, and coffee form but a graduated scale of stimulants and intoxicants, and that flesh-meats, as they are to-day, are not the least injury is in the scale. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.12

As true temperance is not to use any stimulant at all, it therefore excludes all foods which contain stimulants; consequently, true temperance excludes flesh-meats from dietetics. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.13

“Will the people who are preparing to become wholly, pure, and refined, that they may be introduced into the society of heavenly angels, continue to take the life of God’s creatures, and subsist on their flesh, and enjoy it as a luxury? From what God is shown me, this order of things will be changed, and God’s peculiar people will exercise temperance and all things.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.14

There are other things yet to be named that are not good food; but we shall consider them later. In the meantime, be sure that in leaving off these things that are injurious, you do it by taking that which is good, and only good, and good for you. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 377.15

“Editorial” The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 75, 25, p. 380.

THE Lord is coming. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.1

He is coming in glory. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.2

He is coming “to be glorified in his saints.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.3

He is coming that his saints may be glorified in him. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.4

And so, coming “to be glorified in his saints,” and that his saints may be glorified in him, he is coming that “we may be glorified together.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.5

In order to be glorified with him, we must be “joint heirs with him.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.6

In order to be joint heirs with him, we must be “heirs of God.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.7

In order to be heirs of God, we must be “sons of God.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.8

And in order to be sons of God, we must be “led by the Spirit of God.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.9

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.10

In order to be led by the Spirit of God, we must have the Spirit of God. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.11

In order to have the Spirit of God, the Spirit itself must “bear witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.12

“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joined heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.13

“The wise shall inherit glory.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.14

And it is “eternal glory.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.15

Glory! ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.16

“Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.17

“Editorial Note” The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 75, 25, p. 380.

WHEN God had created man “in his own image,” then “God bless them.” This was on the sixth day. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.1

Then came the seventh: “and God blessed the seventh day.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.2

God blessed the man, and God bless the seventh day. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.3

That blessing upon man was a reality. It was a substantial thing which was put upon the man by the Lord for the benefit of the man. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.4

That blessing upon the seventh day was likewise, and just as certainly, a reality. That, too, was a substantial thing which was put upon that day by the Lord. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.5

That blessing upon the seventh day was also for the benefit of man; because the seventh day is the Sabbath, the Sabbath was made for man, and that blessing is one of the things that made the seventh day the Sabbath for man. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.6

No one who knows that there is such a thing as the blessing of God, can deny that the blessing with which God blessed the man was a reality. No one who knows what God’s blessing is can deny that when he blessed the man, there entered the life of the man a substantial good,—one which the man could not possibly disregard without substantial loss. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.7

And the blessing with which God blessed the seventh day was just as real, just as substantial, and just as much for the good of man, as was the blessing with which he blessed the man. This can not possibly be denied. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.8

In that blessing which God put upon the seventh day, there was a substantial good for the man, which the man could not possibly disregard or forfeit, any more than he could the blessing upon himself; and forfeited also the blessing of the seventh day, because only the blessed man can share the blessing of the blessed day. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.9

Yet the Lord did not leave the man in his lost condition. He creates him new in Christ Jesus again, “after the image of him that created him.” And man, being again “in the image of God,” is blessed of God. Acts 3:26; Ephesians 1:3. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.10

And the blessed day “remaineth” for this blessed man. Hebrews 4:3-9. The blessed man can enjoy the blessed day. And only the blessed man can enjoy the blessed day, because that blessed day “remaineth” “to the people of God.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.11

Yet said it is that so many people who claim to be, and who indeed are, such blessed men, and to enjoy the blessings of the blessed man, utterly disregard, and even reject, the blessed day, which was made, and which “remaineth,” for these very blessed men. They wholly lose, and seem content, and even determined, to lose, the blessing of the blessed day, which was made, and which “remaineth,” especially for blessed men. Surely, they know not what they do. They know not what they are losing. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.12

Why will blessed people, why will any people, reject the blessing of God because he placed it for them upon the seventh day? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.13

“Studies in the Book of Daniel” The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 75, 25, pp. 380, 381.

THE Babylon of the days of Daniel did certainly fall. Those days, too, were the days of Babylon highest splendor and greatest glory. Yet that was the time she fell. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.1

This fall was foretold over and over in the word of the Lord by his prophets; it was proclaimed in Babylon by the public reading their of the word of the Lord concerning Babylon; all who were the Lord’s people, or who would be the Lord’s people, were called to leave Babylon, that they might not be taken in her fall; signs were given by which all might certainly know when to forsake her, and how she would be overthrown. All this was made plain to all by the word of the Lord. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.2

Isaiah proclaimed the message of a vision declared unto him, in which Elam and Media were to go up and the siege; and in a “night of pleasure,” of eating and drinking, the watchman would cry, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.” Isaiah 21:1-10. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.3

The same prophet also wrote to her of her pride and her wickedness, saying: “Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee: thou shall not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee, which thou shalt not know.” Isaiah 47:11. He wrote plainly the name of the man—Cyrus—who would lead the forces in the overthrow of the city. Isaiah 45:1-7. He also wrote, “Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The Lord hath redeemed the servant Jacob.” Isaiah 48:20. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.4

In Jeremiah 50 and 51 is written “the word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.” Jeremiah 50:1. In these two chapters there is given an account, even to particular, of the fall of Babylon written more than half a century before the time. This account was sent to Babylon by a prince of Judah, who, when he arrived there, was to stand in the broad street of Babylon by the river Euphrates, and “read all these words.” And when he had read the words, he was to exclaimed, “O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.5

And when he had spoken these words, he was to bind a stone to the manuscript, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates, and say, “Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her.” Jeremiah 51:64. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.6

And all that the Lord had spoken, and that the prophets had written, came upon Babylon. Babylon did fall. In her iniquity she fell, and because of her iniquity she fell. And this, not because it could not have been otherwise, but because she would not have it otherwise. For the Lord would have healed Babylon; but she would not be healed. His people there for that very purpose; but when she would that be healed, they were obliged to forsake her, and go everyone to his own country; for her judgment reached and the heaven, and was lifted up even to the skies. Jeremiah 51:9. So Babylon was left to her fate, and sank to rise no more at all. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.7

So much for the Babylon of the book of Daniel and of the days of Daniel. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.8

But now there is a Babylon of the book of Revelation, and of our days—the last days. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.9

What means the word concerning a Babylon of the last book of the Bible and of the last days? What does it mean unless it be that the world of the last times is to become like the Babylon of those other days, and is to come to the same end as did the Babylon of those other days? If that is not the lesson in it, then there is no lesson in it. The term “Babylon,” written so often in the book of Revelation, and of the last times, is meaningless if it does not mean that the last days, and the world of the last days, will be such as was Babylon in her last days. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.10

Why was the fall Babylon proclaimed in old time? and why is the fall Babylon proclaimed in the last times? Isaiah 21:9; Jeremiah 51:8, 47, 49, 58; Revelation 14:8; 18:2. Why, unless there is to be a Babylon to fall in the last times as certainly as there was a Babylon in old time to fall? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.11

Why was the judgment of God to be visited upon Babylon in old time? and why is the judgment of God to be visited upon a Babylon of the last times? Isaiah 13:1, 19; 14:22; 47:5, 7-11; Jeremiah 50:9-16, 28, 29; Revelation 17:1, 16, 17; 18:6-10. Why, unless there is to be a Babylon in the last times as certainly as there was a Babylon in old time? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.12

Why were the Lord’s people called out of the Babylon of old time? and why are the Lord’s people called out of the Babylon of the last times? Jeremiah 51:6, 45; Revelation 18:4. Why, unless the Babylon of the last times terms herself in iniquity as did the Babylon of old time? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 380.13

Why was it that the messenger in Babylon of old time it ended his message by casting a stone into the midst of Euphrates, and exclaiming, “Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her”? And why is it that, at the close of the message concerning the Babylon of the last times, a mighty angel takes up “a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall the great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Jeremiah 51:61-64; Revelation 18:21. Why, unless there is to be a Babylon in the last times to sink, and that will sink, as certainly as there was a Babylon of old time to sink, and that did sink? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.1

Why was it that, at the noise of the fall of the Babylon of old time, the earth was moved, and the cry was heard among the nations? And why is it that, at the fall of the Babylon of the last times, “the kings of the earth... bewail her, and lament for her,” and that their cry is heard among the nations? Jeremiah 50:46; Revelation 18:9, 10, 15-19. Why, unless the judgment upon the Babylon of the last times is just as real as and as terrible as was that upon the Babylon of old time? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.2

Why was it that when the Babylon of old time fell, so at Babylon there fell also the slain of all the earth? And why is it that when the Babylon of the last times falls, there is found in her “the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth”? Jeremiah 51:49; Revelation 18:24. Why, unless the Babylon of the last times is just as wicked, just as cruel, and just as impressive, as was the Babylon of old time? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.3

Why was it that when Babylon of old time fell, the heaven and earth, and all that was therein, were called to “sing for Babylon”? And why is it that when the Babylon of the last times shall fall, the word will be, “Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets”? Jeremiah 51:48; Revelation 18:20. Why, unless it is a thing to rejoice heaven and earth to be freed from the curse of the Babylon of the last times as readily as it was of the Babylon of old time? ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.4

But what I call attention to any more parallels? Is it not perfectly plain that there is a Babylon of the last times that is a complete repetition of the Babylon of old time? Is there not a Babylon of the book of Revelation has really as there is a Babylon of the book of Daniel? Is there not a Babylon of our days as really as there was of the days of Daniel? And is not this Babylon of the last days to sink under the judgments of the Lord as really as did the Babylon of old? When that judgment was written for the Babylon of old, was it not at the same time written: “This is the purpose that is purposed upon the earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations. For the Lord of hosts hath purposed and to shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and to shall turn it back?” Isaiah 14:26, 27. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.5

Why talked, then, about a millennium—unless, indeed, it be a millennium of ruin and waste in this and desolation? Did Babylon of old have a millennium of any other kind than of ruin and waste this and desolation, swept “with the besom of destruction,” “a possession for the bittern and pools of water,” “as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah”? Isaiah 13:19; 14:22, 23; Jeremiah 50:40. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.6

Why talked, then, about the conversion of the world? Was the Babylonish world of old time converted? Did she sink because she was converted?—She would not be converted. She sank because she was overwhelmingly wicked. And the Babylon of the last times is just like her. And thus with violence shall Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.7

“Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached and the heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” ARSH June 14, 1898, page 381.8

“Who Authorized It?” The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 75, 25, p. 382.

IN the recent past, I have been the recipient of a number of envelopes containing a certain circular letter. This circular letter came as endorsed by a number of my esteemed and beloved minister in brethren. Every copy came in the same kind of envelope, and with the address written in the same hand. All were directed to me at Battle Creek, although I was at work in Wisconsin. Of course it was necessary to forward the letters to me. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.1

The following is a copy of the circular letter:— ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.2

“To the Board of Trustees, Seventh-day Adventist Educational Society, Battle Creek, Mich.

“DEAR BRETHREN AND FRIENDS: We think the mortgaging and sale of any of our denominational institutions is not right; for it deprives us stockholders of our money and our rights, as protected by the laws of the State of Michigan; hence we AT ONCE hereby respectfully ask you to PETITION the proper court of equity and chancery to AT ONCE set aside said mortgage, and leave the College free from sale, and you brethren free to manage the College as it is to the best interests of stockholders and students, according to the wisdom the Lord will give you. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.3

“Signed.... .... .... .... .... ........ .... .... .... ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.4

“Post-office.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....

“State.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....”

I should like to know who had a moral right to send out such a letter, in the way this was sent. Was sent with the letter a leaflet, which told some things about a mortgage been placed upon the College at Battle Creek. But it told these things and a way to mislead the reader. The whole scheme was evidently intended to make my brethren believe that I, Wm. Covert, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Seventh-day Adventist Educational Society, was in Battle Creek, waiting for them to tell me to institute court proceedings for the purpose of setting aside the said mortgage. This thing is a misrepresentation of my attitude in the matter. I have favored the mortgage, and have not, at any time, wanted it set aside. I have approved of it as a member of the board, and also as a stockholder. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.5

The brethren who sign with me to do hereby certify that they were, by the manner in which the matter was sent them, made to believe I was anxious for them to endorse the above letter or petition. They further say that if they had not been deceived, their signatures certainly would not have been given. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.6

WM. COVERT.
J. C. MIKKELSEN,
Signed also by Elders T. B. SNOW, SWIN SWINSON.

The foregoing communication was sent to the REVIEW AND HERALD for publication. It is not the first letter to the same affect that has been written, though it is the first one written directly for publication. It truly says that the misleading letter that was sent out “as endorsed by a number of esteemed and beloved minister in brethren.” But the truth also is that at least two of these names were put on there, and sent out, without the knowledge of those brethren themselves; and that these names would not have been there at all if those brethren had known of it. And those brethren have been obliged to write letters, and do whatever else they might, to correct the false impression given by this on authorized use of their names. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.7

The method employed was to send out to the brethren, for them to sign, this blank request “to the Board of Trustees.” Accompanying it was the endorsement of certain names, two at least of which we personally and positively know knew nothing of it, and would not have consented to it if they had known it. In the same envelope with these papers, was sent an envelope already addressed to some member of the board, as related by Brother Covert. Of course the persons receiving the papers with the addressed envelope would suppose that the papers were sent by the person whose name was on the of envelope, as Brother Covert states; whereas, the truth is, as in the case of Brother Covert and others of whom we know, the person to whom the enclosed envelope was addressed new nothing whatever about it, and would have had nothing to do with it if he had known it, and is now compelled to write and even published, letters of protest and explanation to deliver himself from the false attitude into which he has been thrown by this piece of hocus-pocus. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.8

The mortgage referred to is simply a trust mortgage; that is, a mortgage which places the College property in the hands of three responsible brethren in trust, so that all the creditors shall be perfectly secure while the reorganization of the institution is being accomplished, and so that when reorganization is accomplished, the title shall be perfect, and all creditors absolutely secure. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.9

This plan was adopted because, for these purposes, it is perfect; and because it is the least expensive, easiest, and most direct: in short, because, in every way, it is the best plan. And it has been undertaken now because now the College needs to be helped, in order that it may securely and a factually do the work that was designed for it in the beginning. We are perfectly sure that no person who is a friend of the principles of education designed from the first four Battle Creek College, will oppose this plan when he understands it. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.10

No stockholder will be deprived of either his money or his rights, and no creditor will lose a cent of what is owed to him by the College, by the carrying through of the plan now inaugurated, of which this simple and innocent trust mortgage is an essential part. Every stockholder who can possibly be found has been furnished with a complete copy of the proposed plan of reorganization, for his examination, criticism, and suggestion. Thus every stockholder will have full opportunity to consider it, and to express himself upon it. There is no secrecy about it, and there will be none. The Board of Trustees, the Reorganization Committee, and the General Conference Committee are all working together, and doing the very best we can, and the best thing we can, under all the circumstances, in the interests of the, as the Lord has designed it from the beginning. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.11

We trust the brethren will not allow themselves to be deceived by this thing exposed by Brother Covert. And we hope those who may have been deceived by it will deliver themselves as a bird from the snare of the fowler. ARSH June 14, 1898, page 382.12