Correcting a False Prediction
By Editor
THE following item we clip from the editorial columns of the Decatur (Texas) Post:— "The Seventh-day Adventists predict that the world will come to an end on January 4. Look out for the Herald on the morning of the 5th, as special arrangements have been made for full particulars.—Dallas Herald. "The Herald does a zealous class of Christians a gross injustice when it credits them with such predictions as the above. Any one who knows anything about them, or the doctrines they hold on this point, knows they never set any time for such an event, and that the assertion of the Herald with regard to them is wholly gratuitous." And we cannot help adding that the Herald knows or ought to know that its statement in the matter is false. There has been for years a church of Seventh-day Adventists at Dallas. The editor of the Herald probably knew this. If he did not, he is not competent to edit the journal he represents. If he did know of the existence of such a church, and did not take the trouble to learn whether such a statement was true or false, he is certainly unreliable as a chronicler of passing events, and cannot justly be entitled to the confidence of a truth-loving public.