Bureau of Information by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1901

Bureau of Information

By Editor

A CORRECTION.

A few weeks ago we published in this department a short article entitled “Opening in the South,” speaking of Occoquan, Va., and vicinity. It was stated that many of the colored people there were in “abject poverty,” proper objects of the benevolence of those who might feel disposed to send clothing, furniture, etc.

Now we are informed from several sources that this is altogether untrue; that the colored people of that neighborhood are not in poverty at all, but are comfortable, have plenty of work, and are fairly well off. Naturally, they wish to be correctly represented before others, and the least amends we can make them is to publish this notice and correction, which we very willingly do.

And now, brethren and friends, be careful. This is not a bureau of imagination, nor of hyperbole, but of information. It is designed to be and ought to be a valuable department for all our readers; but its value will depend entirely upon the accuracy of those furnishing matter to appear in its columns.