p. 765 | MORE PERSECUTION by R. D. Hottel

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 48.

MORE PERSECUTION.

By R. D. Hottel

ELDER R. D. HOTTEL writes as follows to the Union Record, from Ford's Store, Md.:—

Again the hand of persecution is felt at this place. On Monday, September 11, Brethren J. Alex Dodd and Joseph H. Warram were arrested and brought before Justice Kerr for working on the previous day. This makes the second charge and arrest of Brother Dodd. Brother Dodd asked to see the warrant and the justice refused. He then asked that the case be postponed until he could secure counsel. The justice replied that it was no use, that he was present at the other trials of Seventh-day Adventists and knew the verdict, and counsel was useless. The brethren waived an examination and the cases were held under bail for the November court. This makes seven cases that will come up at this time. Surely the time is now when "judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter, . . . and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey." But "our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth."