p. 398 | A Union not Desirable

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1868

A Union not Desirable.

A Presbyterian church in the upper part of the city secured an eligible mission station, gathered a Sunday School, and had preaching a part of Sunday. Much success attended the movement. An Episcopal society, in search of a location, could find no one so well adapted to their work as that occupied by the Presbyterians. The Episcopalians asked, as a favor, to have the use of the room on Sunday, when it was not used by others; and as the work was considered the same, the request was granted. Things went smoothly for a time. When the original workers went to renew the lease, they found that their new friends had got the start of them, and had leased the room in their own name, and refused to allow the Presbyterians to share it, but coolly told them that they needed the room all Sunday for their own work—thus leaving the original occupants out in the cold. This is what lawyers call “sharp practice.” With such union as this it will take some time to bring about the Millennium.