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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 6.

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False Reports.

The following from the Glens Falls Messenger shows how recklessly false reports are started and circulated concerning those who are preaching the truth:—
“Mr. COLE—Dear sir: Your correspondent from this place, in speaking of the Advent meetings now being held here, says that the speaker is strangely perverting the Scriptures, and that his doctrine will have a tendency to skepticism; also that he was used up in an argument on the 24th chapter of Matthew by an aged gentleman of this place. Now the facts are these: Some time in the latter part of the summer Mr. S. B. Whitney came here and tried to get ground on which to pitch his tent to hold a series of lectures on Bible subjects, but through the influence of some of the leading church members he could not obtain ground room for his tent. Since then, through special invitations from some in this place who believe in free speech and a free gospel, Mr. Whitney came here, and his lectures have been well attended by, as one man expresses it, “all the brains in the place,” and I believe have given general satisfaction, and instead of leading to skepticism will have a tendency to lead his hearers to a more systematic study of the Scriptures.
“In regard to the controversy spoken of by your correspondent between Mr. Whitney and the venerable gentleman of this place, I can see no foundation for what he wrote you, as there has been no discussion between Mr. Whitney and any person on the 24th chapter of Matthew. It was simply stated by the aged gentleman that the 24th chapter of Matthew had direct reference to the destruction of Jerusalem, and not to the end of the world, when conclusive evidence was given to show that it did have direct reference to the end of time and the final closing scenes of this world’s history. Now I deem it but justice that the facts should be presented to your readers, and whether Mr. Whitney’s explanations of the Bible are correct or not, those who criticise should be very careful to speak the truth.
“Yours truly,
“WATCHMAN.”