Hamilton, Mo., Oct. 24, 1870 by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 1, 1870

Hamilton, Mo., Oct. 24, 1870

By James White

Personal.

At the Kansas camp-meeting, we met Bro. G. S. West, of that State, and heard his complaints of bad treatment at the hands of some of our people in the state of Illinois, where he resided some ten or fifteen years since. From his statements, many of which were well sustained by certificates and letters in his possession, we came to the following conclusions:

1. That the unfavorable statement relative to Bro. West, given from Jo Daviess Co., Ill., which appeared in the REVIEW some ten or twelve years since, should not have been published until he had had an impartial trial.

2. The principal witnesses against Bro. West were not reliable men. We now speak from personal acquaintance of them. Their testimony could not then be taken in any important case, especially where they were personally interested.

3. Bro. West should have a hearing before impartial judges in the case, at the time of our next General Conference. Let them, therefore, who have published Bro. West as a man unworthy of confidence, either prepare to sustain the charges at the time of General Conference, or frankly take back the charges as groundless, through the same medium that they employed in publishing him. JAMES WHITE.