BATTLE CREEK by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1879

BATTLE CREEK.

By James White

WE are happily situated at Battle Creek, again laboring joyfully with the members of this church. We can never lose our interest in the institutions located here, which we have labored to build up and defend.

A large portion of this church feel in a degree the interest in them that we feel. Others are willing to be financially benefited by them, and may excuse themselves on the ground that they have contributed largely to them, while a few who unworthily wear the Advent name, and have done nothing, or the next thing to nothing, to build up these institutions, stand ready to take advantage of the poor, the widow, and the orphan. God pity them.

We therefore want those of our people who may come to Battle Creek, or who intend to live here and enjoy the benefits of our College and Sanitarium, to look well to it what hands they fall into. Remember these things:—

1. Be not in haste to purchase property in Battle Creek. Wait till you have seen men who occupy responsible positions, and take time to see for yourselves.

2. Before you close a bargain, learn whether the parties are members of the church, and if in good standing. The fact that some in their haste are being deceived and are paying too much for property, is our apology for this warning and these statements.

3. Both the College and the Sanitarium have good building lots for sale, lots that are on good streets, on which cottages could be built that would hold their value, and probably increase in value. Some of these lots on good streets, and near the Sanitarium and College, are for sale at low figures.

4. However unpleasant, we are giving these matters attention, and shall not cease our efforts to convince all true minds and hearts that we are a highly favored people in having these institutions planted in our midst by the Divine Hand, and that all the members of the Battle Creek church should be above seeking pecuniary advantages from them.

As ever, battling for the right in the name of the righteous Master, J. W.