AN IMPOSTOR by Uriah Smith

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1862

AN IMPOSTOR.

By Uriah Smith

It seems that there is an impostor in the field by the name of Davis, against whom it has become necessary to warn the brethren to save them from imposition. It is unpleasant to be obliged to refer to such characters; but it would be injustice to the cause of truth, to suffer the emissaries of the great enemy, so far as known, to go unexposed. The villainous falsehoods which this man is engaged in circulating, are given in the following statements; and the brethren will need no other evidence of the character and mission of the man, to put them on their guard against him. U. S.

The statement is given by J. W. Landes of Fairfield, Iowa, who says:

"While traveling out west on business some two weeks ago, I stopped at Batavia, Jeff. Co., Iowa, where Bro. Snook had been preaching this fall, and several promised to obey the truth. But something like three weeks ago there was a man from Illinois by the name of Samuel Owen Davis that has been passing himself off as a Seventh-day Adventist preacher. He told them that organization was wrong in the way that we were getting it up, that our Discipline said we should not use coffee, tea, pork, nor tobacco, and that sister White's visions were our prayer-book. He compared sister White to the woman Jezebel in the Thyatira church of Rev. ii, 18-20. He has been preaching west in Wayne Co. He is now preaching at Glasgow, twelve miles south-east of this place, and is doing much injury to the cause. I think he should be exposed through the Review."