Father Yorke’s Scathing Lecture
By Editor
"FATHER" YORKE, chancellor of the archdiocese of California, delivered a scathing lecture in Oakland recently, taking for his text the fact that the San Francisco Monitor, of which he is the reputed editor, is not kept on file in the public reading rooms of this city. He seemed to be greatly exercised about Seventh-day Adventists because two of their papers have a place in the reading rooms. Just why he should have felt so we do not know, as we have nothing to do with keeping out his Monitor, and see no reason why a Catholic paper should not have place in a reading room sustained by all the community. Seventh-day Adventists have had to stand a great many false charges, they expect to stand many more, and as long as they stand on the broad "foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone," they are able to stand many more; but when it comes to laying the responsibility of the Oakland tide-wave scare at our door, we simply say that Mr. Yorke ought to have known better, and his Oakland audience that applauded him when he made the charge ought to have known better. The fact that he appears not to have known better detracts somewhat from his reputation of being well posted. It is the first time we have heard of any one, who knew of that fakeful prophecy at all, being so uninformed as to charge that Mrs. Woodworth and her followers were Seventh-day Adventists. And for the information of Mr. Yorke's misinformed auditors and readers, we now state that not a single Seventh-day Adventist, to our knowledge, was in the least affected by the threatened disaster.