A Spiritualist Critique of the Advent Herald
FOR the following complimentary notice we are indebted to the Banner of Light, Spiritualist paper of Boston, Mass. Just think of Spiritualists charging any class of religionists whatever with “strange freaks,” “going it blind!” or “ridiculous folly!” “THE ADVENT HERALD AND SABBATH REVIEW, the religious character of which may be known by its name, is printed at Battle Creek, Mich., and is still waiting for the Advent of its Saviour, and its editor is hoping if not looking for the coming of the Lord ‘in the clouds of heaven,’ which the poor deluded mortal is destined never to witness. It is to us a mystery how intelligent persons can be found in this country to get out and to support so large and mechanically well executed a paper as the Advent Herald; but religion does cut up the strangest freaks with the human intellect of any subject or influence in our world. Men and women who on all other subjects are rational and intelligent, seem to lose all power and use of reason on religious questions, and ‘go it blind’; and this is the only explanation we can find to excuse our Advent friends, many of whom seem rational on all other subjects, and yet ‘stick’ to this ‘ridiculous folly.’”