Attack on Elder Keslake

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 25, 1908

Attack on Elder Keslake

A CORRESPONDENT of the St. John's (Newfoundland) Evening Telegram, who does not have the courage to sign his own name, makes a bitter attack upon Elder C. H. Keslake, the superintendent of our work in that field. One paragraph is especially significant:—

The elder suffers from mental aberration. Fellow citizens, see the brazen fellow as he denounces your children! Children, mark the monster that brands your parents slayers of righteousness! He is no other than a disturber. Shun him as you would a plague, for no plague ever ate into the vitals of home life as does the double teaching of this man. With pernicious zeal he attacks the law that is to keep sabbath sacred to us. Is it right to raise a doubt in our minds as to the sanctity of the day?

This reads much like the sentence of major excommunication recently pronounced by the pope. It is evident that some professed Protestants would inflict severe penalties upon those who refuse to recognize the claims of the false sabbath, if permissive legislation could be secured. To such persons, religious liberty means the liberty to believe as they do.