Report of Adventist Minister Shooting Is False
A READER of the REVIEW writes us from Iuka, Miss., inquiring as to the veracity of a report published in a Memphis (Tenn.) paper (and which presumably has been scattered broadcast) that in Carbondale, Ill., October 5, a man named Brown was shot and killed by a Seventh-day Adventist minister who is a resident of that place. The name of the alleged Adventist is McGammish. On the face of it such a story is preposterous; but we can assure any who might think otherwise, on the authority of the president of the Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, that there is no Seventh-day Adventist minister by that name in Illinois; nor is there any Adventist by that name in Carbondale, so far as we can learn. The story is what is called a canard.