IN WHAT THEY DELIGHT by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 14, 1892

IN WHAT THEY DELIGHT.

By Editor

THE Oregonian, a paper that prides itself on its fairness, states in an editorial clipping sent us from its issue of September 18, 1892, that the Seventh-day Adventists, who had at that time been holding a protracted meeting in Oakesdale, Wash., "say" that "within ten years the great day for which all other days were made will come." We do not believe they said it, and we challenge the proof that any representative Seventh-day Adventist made such a statement as the belief of the body. They believe that the day "is near, even at the doors;" all definite time, all limits, however, they leave with God. The Oregonian in the same issue rehashes the old "ascension robes" story, and multiplies those who made the robes into "a devout and emotional host," whereas the isolated instances which have been alleged to occur, have time and again been chased into the nonentity of some perfervid and prejudiced imagination, or proved to be a lie out of whole cloth. But the Oregonian, we suppose, is amused, and so are its readers who like this thing. They belong to the genus American which finds his greatest amusement and delight in big lies.