Wellsville, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1871
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Wellsville, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1871
By Josiah Witter
THE church in Allegany Co., N. Y., feel it duty to caution all against being imposed upon by a “wandering star” by the name of Green, who came to them with fair professions and an assumed name (that of Harry Harding), and succeeded in marrying a respectable young lady, after which it was discovered that he had a wife and four children living in Pennsylvania within a day’s drive of this place. Also, there is a middle-aged man, of low stature, light hair, bald headed, and pock-marked, who was excluded from this church for the crime next to murder in the decalogue, some two years since, and who, instead of showing signs of genuine repentance, has taken up a warfare against a portion of our faith, while he professes to keep the Sabbath, and is laboring to injure our influence among the people by false representations of what we hold and teach, to create prejudice with those without, and lead astray the weak and wavering. His case would not be noticed thus publicly, but for the possibility that he may turn up in some other place, and if he should, he is sure to appear as a preacher, for preach he must and preach he will; to which we have no objections, if he will preach his own creed and not deceive the people in respect to S. D. Adventists and the truths which we hold and teach. Wellsville, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1871