Smoky Religion | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1875

Smoky Religion.

Bro. August Rasmussen, who attended the late Biblical Institute in this place, gives us a little of his experience since he returned home. He says:—

When I returned home, I attended the yearly meeting of the Lutheran church in Gowen, Mich. Their priest smoked his tobacco pipe all the time; and so did nearly all the assembly. The house was so dark with smoke that one could hardly see another. The floor was almost covered with tobacco spit from the stand to the door. At one time there were a dozen or more speaking at once. After much controversy, sometimes in harsh language, and smoking and spitting, the priest gave his flock a faithful warning against the S. D. Adventists, claiming that their doctrines were fearful.

I thank my S. D. A. brethren that I know a better way, and for all they have done for our Danish mission.