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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 16.

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Likenesses.

By James White

I NEVER believed that having one's likeness taken was a violation of the second commandment, yet regarded it as an idolatrous expense, and refused my friends firmly until Eld. Snook and another induced me to yield and have my picture taken at Knoxville, Iowa, in the year 1860. Since that time, I have had numerous copies of my picture and that of my family. And when it becomes a matter of traffic, the whole thing becomes a great wrong. In this I have sinned, and ask my brethren to forgive me, and pray that God will also pardon the wrong. It was setting a bad example before others. Since I have been sick I have mourned over the matter much. And now, as I visit the homes of my brethren, my eye can hardly meet a more painful object than one of these photographs. JAMES WHITE.