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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Oct 18, 1883

So Very Reliable!

THE "California Department" of the Christian Herald, of Monmouth, Oregon, gives us the following astounding intelligence:—

"The Seventh-day Adventists are arranging to move their publishing house from Battle Creek, Michigan, to Healdsburg, Cal. They have bought the Collegiate Institute of that place, and have established a college. They have, I presume, the largest number at that point of any place in the State. Don't know whether they have given up their old battle-ground on the east side of the Rockies or not, or whether they have given up the States to hardness of heart."

To this we reply, 1. The Healdsburg church is not by any means the largest S. D. A. Church in this State. 2. The Adventists have never had the remotest idea of establishing a publishing house in Healdsburg. They have a large one in successful operation in Oakland, and they want no other in this State. 3. Our publishing house in Battle Creek, being the most extensive printing establishment in the State of Michigan, was never more prosperous than at present. The last year has been a very encouraging year in our work there. The idea has not been hinted to move it. 4. Our camp-meetings in the East, the present year, have been fruitful of much good, and our cause is prosperous "all along the line."

We are led to wonder if this very reliable Christian did not so strongly wish we would give up our work, that he came to imagine it was so.