The National Reform Threat
By Editor
REV. M. A. GAULT, a representative of the National Reform Association, and of the American Sabbath Union, writes to a Seventh-day Adventist at Hawleyville, Iowa, as follows:— "I see most of your literature in my travels, and am convinced that your folks will die hard. But we are helping Brother Crafts all the time to set stakes and get the ropes ready to scoop you all in. You will kick hard, of course, but we will make sure work." Mr. J. S. Washburn, to whom this card was addressed, claims to have heard from Mr. Gault's own lips "the infamous declaration that as a last resort to be used in compelling this nation to profess Christianity he would advise the use of the sword and the bullet." From this and many like expressions from the same "reverend" lips, Mr. Washburn feels justified in placing upon the above threat "the most literal interpretation." We think his conclusion is correct, and that the National Reform Inquisition will be, as far as in them lies, a true image of the old Roman institution. No doubt, with their "stakes" and their "ropes," they will make the deaths of all whom they are able to "scoop in" as hard as their vindictive invention will permit.