A Warning by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1879

A Warning.

By Editor

How many fortunes have been lost in the last three months in California, nobody can tell. When it is so evident that the stock market is manipulated by designing men who have the prices under their control, it would seem that nobody would be caught a second time in a trap set so plainly in sight. But the apostle says that "they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare," and the temptation to try to acquire riches suddenly is too strong for a great many; and truly, they fall into a snare.

We were informed recently that about $3,000 have been sunk by professors of present truth in doubtful mining speculations; a part of it having been drawn from the office to put into the hands of smooth-talking speculators. Every branch of this work would now be abundantly supplied with means if it had the money which has been thrown away in efforts to do better than to lend it to the cause of God.