Ascension Robes by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Feb 24, 1909

Ascension Robes

By Editor

The Santa Rosa "Press Democrat" says:

"Florida is having its experience just now with a Sunday-rest law which the Legislature passed in a period of mental aberration. Now it is the most distressful country that ever you have seen—they're arresting men and women there for all sorts of trivial breaches of the law. Merchants and lawyers who have ventured to go to their offices and open their mail have been arrested and fined. Fine business!"

This is the benevolent, gracious law which the San Jose Mercury and others desire in California.

Ascension Robes.

Some one has sent us a clipping from a newspaper without date which tells the old, old falsehood, putting it in a new territory and on a different date, of somebody preparing ascension robes, believing that the Lord was coming. This article says it was in a village in Vermont in 1820. This is entirely new. It may be well to remark again that for years and years there was a reward offered by an Adventist paper for one authenticated case of making ascension robes during the great Advent Movement of 1840 to 1844. Invariably it is always hearsay. No true Adventist ever believes for a moment in any such foolish thing. The ascension robes that will be given God's children when Christ comes will be the glory with which He will invest them and the change from mortality to immortality.

Our hearts are made sad by another fire in Battle Creek, Mich., which occurred at 1:00 A.M., February 5, completely destroying the Haskell Memorial Home for Orphans. For several years the home had been under the control of Dr. J. H. Kellogg. It was built by the gift of $35,000 by Mrs. Jane Haskell as a memorial to her husband, and placed under the charge of Seventh-day Adventists. Saddest of all, two little girls, aged thirteen and five, were burned with the building. Their friends have our sincere sympathy.

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