A Caution by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 13, 1909

A Caution

By William Ambrose Spicer

WE caution church officers or members against requests for church lists from unauthorized persons, who call for names and addresses only to circular the churches with opposition literature. A union conference president writes that a certain man in Washington has been requesting names and addresses from some in his field, in order to supply a little sheet which seems the organ of the recent apostasy of disorganization and general attack upon the message. Our correspondent writes: “The letter that I have seen conveys the idea that if the record of names can be stolen, it will be little trouble.” Similar methods have been suggested in former factional movements, which have left their wreckage of souls all along the way. Only let not our church officers unwittingly help such a cause along by giving heed to requests simply because they come from Washington.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.