Who Directed the Tent Meetings?
In the Advent Christian Times, of June 4, 1872, we find the following statement. Speaking of a town in Eastern Michigan the editor, in his “Journal,” says:— Soon after the church was organized, and while they were building the chapel, the Seventh-day Sabbath keepers pitched their tent in town, and with three preachers kept up a meeting for six weeks by the direction of Mrs. White, their prophetess.” We venture to say that when our brethren went to Broadway with the tent, sister White knew nothing of it (unless she might have incidentally learned it from the paper), nor who was laboring with that tent, nor when they commenced, nor how long they intended to stay. Labor in the different States, is performed under the direction of their respective Conference committees. Sister W.’s attention is occupied with other matters. From the numerous statements of this kind made in the Times, one would judge that it was edited by Ananias and Sapphira.