Those Lists Again by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1875

Those Lists Again.

By Editor

We stated last week, in the SIGNS, that we had been requested in some places "to make almost a wholesale slaughter by cutting off forty names in a place, and where we judge from the tenor of their letter that they have not visited the parties to ascertain the real state of their minds."

We did not cut off the names in this case, and one week's time has shown that we were not mistaken in our judgment of the matter, as the following interesting letter from Washington Territory will show. Had we followed orders to "cut off all names in that place which we had not heard from," this name would have gone with the rest.

Read this letter, ye T. and M. workers, and patiently seek an interview with all those who have been reading the SIGNS for three months or more, and don't order any names cut off by guess, but as you read the letter, recollect that the writer sent $2.50 to pay for his paper. The letter reads as follows:—

"GENTLEMEN :—Before Elder Van Horn began preaching in ———, I was not inclined to read any of your publications; but now I take a great deal of interest not only in reading the books and papers, but in listening to his preaching whenever there is an opportunity. Elder Van Horn has done a great deal of good in this town and surrounding country, and doubtless scores if not hundreds would be glad to see the seventh day kept for the Sabbath instead of the first day, believing that the seventh day is the true Sabbath. I am anxious to know the whole truth, and shall continue to read your books and paper, trusting the right may prevail." J. N. L.