The Crusaders by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1879

The Crusaders.

By Editor

An article is going the rounds of the papers which says that the "Women's Crusade" against the liquor sellers was started in Hillsboro, Ohio. And not far from that locality Van Zandt lived and sold liquor, was converted, joined the crusaders, and the history of his conversion and labors in the cause of temperance was published through the length and breadth of the land. But we have not seen the first paper which noticed the fact that, when the crusade fire burned low, Van Zandt returned to his liquor traffic as complacently as John Burns of Gettysburg "returned to his cows and his bees."

In our early church association strenuous efforts were put forth to confirm our faith in "the perseverance of the saints." But years of observation have strongly confirmed us in the faith of the perseverance of sinners! No room for doubts exist on this point.