LIARS' DEPARTMENT by John Norton Loughborough

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 23, 1858

LIARS' DEPARTMENT.

By John Norton Loughborough

BRO. SMITH: I see you have suggested the idea of a Liars' department in the Review; I am much pleased with the idea. It is always of great interest to me to learn the position of our enemies, as well as the strength of the weapons with which they fight. It shows us God's hand in the work when we see the resort of our enemies to slang, raillery and lies, their most powerful weapons against the truth. Their attempts to show with what great zeal and earnestness what they are pleased to call great errors are advocated, and meet with success, only excites in the people an anxiety to see and hear for themselves.

One course among them has been to show that we were a people subject to change; and so since we have come to this place some have been busy circulating the report that Bro. Cornell, who advocated these views so zealously in this State last year, has renounced all his faith in them. If you think the following sketch bad enough for a place in your new department, it is at your disposal. It is a description of our excellent Tent meeting at Bowling Green, given by an editor of the Perrysburgh Journal. Suffice it to say he heard not an argument of our lectures, yet seemed to feel fully prepared to judge us before hearing, as he has in the following testimony:

"A traveling company of 'Second Adventists,' have been holding a tent meeting at Bowling Green. We understand several persons have been converted to their faith. They think the world will come to an end in seven or eight years, and that all who are not accounted righteous will then suffer annihilation—that the earth will become a paradise and the saved will live upon it forever. That would be a very nice arrangement, but the time is so indefinite and the result so mixed up with superstitious imagination, with such a small sprinkling of reliable facts, that the Devil himself could not tell 'a reason for the hope' of its followers."

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.