The Era of Good Will by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

The Era of Good Will.

By Editor

THE millennium is supposed to be near, in which time "good will to men" will be universal. As proof of the already dawning of that day we copy the following words from the letter of a California Methodist minister to the Advocate, referring to a preacher of another denomination:—

"Brother Carey, the no-soul preacher, had just left here and left some of the people in a bad dilemma. These ecclesiastical nuisances and pious frauds are worse in a community than the north wind, the potato bug, or the epizooty. They set whole communities in an uproar. These professional iconoclasts increase the price of derringers and strychnine. Suicide and social disaster follow in their wake. Let the people beware of these school-house scavengers."

We profess no sympathy for the teachings of the man thus reviled. But we think the preacher who wrote the above has none of the spirit of the exalted one who would not bring a "railing accusation" against even Satan himself.