Rather Mixed by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1871

Rather Mixed.

By Uriah Smith

From the N. Y. Independent of Sept. 21, 1871, we learn that in offices which we may suppose to be nearly as well regulated as our own, mistakes will sometimes be made. When such things occur, the reader should remember that the business is involved in continual liability to such blunders, and that these are prevented only by such constant care as no one would form an adequate idea of who had never had personal experience in the business, and so should exercise all the charity possible in such cases. The Independent tells us how things lately got mixed in that office as follows:—

“We wish to notify our readers that of our two contributors, Geo. B. Cheever, D. D., and Rev. Wm. Baker, neither one is so crazy as might be judged from the way in which the printer has mixed up their last communications to us. By a blunder, such as has never occurred in our office within the memory of its oldest inhabitant, the second “galley” of Dr. Cheever’s article was thrown into the form immediately after the first “galley” of Mr. Baker’s, and the two remaining “galleys” jumbled together the following week under the name of Dr. Cheever. As sent to us by Mr Baker, his “Remainder Biscuit” were all of a batch, and Dr. Cheever’s “Divine Revelation” did not include what a Quaker was “moved” to say. Our readers have the whole of both articles, and will please put them together properly.” U. S.