p. 72 | Clerical Slander by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 23, 1869

Clerical Slander.

By James White

ELD. R. F. ANDREWS writes from Aledo, Mercer Co., Ill.:

“Eld. Whitehead, Baptist, from that place [Knoxville, Iowa], says that Sr White had a vision on the street in front of the old court-house steps in Knoxville; and that he saw her; and that, when she came out of vision, she went into the court house, and told Eld. Hull that he was a good man, but his wife was not a spiritual enough woman for him. He has carried the idea that Sr. W. teaches Spiritual-wife doctrine. He boasts that he can prove by more than one hundred living witnesses, that she fell down on the street, and had a vision. I would like the facts in the case.”

REMARKS. This is one of the many instances of malicious slander from professed ministers of Jesus Christ. There is no more truth in the above statements than in any other set of vile falsehoods. But these ministers will use the best arguments they have, those which will go farthest with the people, to keep them from the truth. Failing in Bible arguments, they resort to smut and blacking. They act in this matter as if the end would justify the most flagrant falsehoods. The facts are as follows:

Mrs. White did not have a vision in the street in Knoxville.
She did not mention Eld. Hull in the court-house as a good man.
She did not mention Mrs. Hull as being deficient in spirituality.
She did have a vision in the house of Bro. Garretson, in Knoxville, in the presence of a few friends, and in that vision she had a most cutting reproof for Eld. Hull. This vision she did not relate publicly, but wrote it for those whom it concerned.

JAMES WHITE.

I was a resident of Knoxville at the time Bro. and Sr. White were there, and can testify that I know the statements of Eld. Whitehead to be false, and that the facts in the case are as Bro. White has stated them.

E. S. WALKER,

Sec. S. D. A. Publishing Association.