A Long Way Off | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 27, 1901

A Long Way Off.

The San Francisco Call has a most imaginative, or misinformed, reporter in Vancouver, B. C., judging from a despatch from that city to the Call of the 7th inst. It tells us that there is in that city a new sect of 200 members, “first formed as a branch of the Seventh-day Adventists,” “the feature of whose singular beliefs is based upon the eating of peanuts as their principal article of food;” that they believe that “Christ will appear on earth within a few months, and perhaps within only a few weeks;” and that “they therefore wish to be prepared [by a peanut diet], in order that they may ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’ without difficulty;” that nuts “constitute almost the entire means of sustenance of the 200 persons in Vancouver who belong to this queer sect.” It is said by some that nuts are more digestible eaten with salt; the above referred-to despatch needs an abundant dose. Fifty per cent. is fervid imagination. It can be safely said that no such sect, having a belief in salvation thru peanuts, exists. Nut foods are made, good, bad, and indifferent, some of them excellent. But no people, as described in the Call despatch, make nuts even their main food. It has been well suggested that the Call reporter must have gotten this news by wireless telegraphy from the lost air ship.