Editorial Notes on Bro. White, Reports, and Church Additions
By Editor
We are happy to learn, by the return of Bro. Cartwright from Colorado, more definitely of Bro. White’s improvement in health. We have had good grounds to infer this from the increased number of important and interesting articles with which he has favored the columns of the REVIEW for some weeks past, and which its readers cannot but have noted and thankfully appreciated. Read the article, “The Millennium at Hand,” in this number, and see what ridiculous applications of prophecy people will make who reject the true principle of interpretation. Let not such persons accuse Adventists of being absurd or fanciful. Thirty-four reports in our Progress Department this week, and three in other parts of the paper, making thirty-seven in all, most of which report additions to the church, and all of which speak encouragingly in reference to the cause. From a portion of the reports from ministers, we have been obliged to omit some of the signatures for want of room. We give another Supplement this week, containing receipts for the Dime Tabernacle, to Aug. 1, 1878. It is designed to give the receipts for this object quarterly, in a Supplement printed for the purpose. If any mistakes have been made, they will be cheerfully corrected on being pointed out. The short-sightedness of some ministers in their opposition to the law of God, is conspicuous in their treatment of such passages as Matt. 19:18,19. Bro. E. R. Ellenwood writes us that the Methodist presiding elder at Lakeview, Mich., took the position unqualifiedly that Christ told the young man all that was to be done in the way of keeping the commandments of God; that is, that no other commandments were to be kept but those expressly specified; and the fourth commandment, not being specified, is not to be kept. Thus to get rid of the fourth commandment, men will give up the first, second, and third; which also are not specifically mentioned, and according to their teaching, men may have other gods, worship images, and take the Lord’s name in vain. What a curse to the world are such religious teachers. The reports from the yellow fever district, New Orleans and other points on the Mississippi, are becoming frightful. It assumes the dimensions of a plague, and the people are fleeing from it in such a panic, that the victims are left to die without attendance.