Incorrect Reports About Adventists
By Editor
A DISPATCH from Battle Creek, Mich., to the Daily World of Vancouver, B. C., dated January 2, states a great many things which are not so. Seventh-day Adventists believe that the end of this age is near at hand, not solely nor principally because Mrs. White says so, but because God's word teaches it abundantly; and that is the very reason why Mrs. White and others have declared these things for so long. Of course the end is constantly growing nearer. But the elders in Battle Creek have not "enjoined all who can to sell," for there is no compulsion. Yes, many are going out to preach the gospel. The amount given the evening of January 1 was not $250, but, all told, was over twenty thousand dollars, over eight thousand of which was cash. Not simply $50,000 has been invested in building in Battle Creek, but more than ten times that amount. The item in the World, for the incorrectness of which the editor is probably not responsible, is only an illustration of the incorrectness of many other reports of us as a people.