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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 14.

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Special Notice.

It will be remembered by the readers of the Review, that in Vol. xxvi, No. 4, page 28, there was a report of a Ministerial Council, held at Hundred Mile Grove, June 16, 1865, to investigate matters held in doubt in the course of L. G. Bostwick, who had received from the Illinois and Wisconsin Conference, a letter of commendation to labor in new fields. Elders White and Loughborough of the Gen. Conf. Com., and Elders Ingraham and Sanborn of the Illinois and Wisconsin State Conf. Com., were present.
After a careful examination of Bostwick's matters, he being present to speak for himself, and time being taken for prayerful consideration, the council came to the following conclusions without a dissenting voice in any one particular:
"1. That Bro. L. G. Bostwick has erred in involving himself in debt, in taking property upon his hands for which he is still owing; that he should as soon as possible close up his financial matters and pay his debts."
But instead of following the direction of the council, he took the opposite course, and went into debt worse than before, till about the 1st of February, 1866, when he sold his house and lot for $400, two hundred in hand, sold all his household effects, putting the money all into his pocket, went to one merchant and bought a coat, then taking the advantage of the absence of another, went to his son and by false representations bought a whole suit of clothes, and on Wednesday, the 7th of February, he took his family and left for parts unknown. It is generally believed, however, that he has gone to Canada. He left debts of borrowed money and unsettled accounts to the amount of about $1,000.
The Sand Prairie church to which he formerly belonged, called a special meeting on the 13th, for the purpose of investigating his case. After carefully considering his past course, they were unanimous in disfollowshiping him from the church as unworthy of their Christian confidence or respect.
By order of the church of Seventh-day Adventists of Sand Prairie, Wis.
J. ATKERSON, Elder, C. K. ACKLEY, Clerk.
Feb. 13, 1866.