TO BRO. LANDES, FAIRFIELD, IOWA by Moses Hull J. H. Waggoner

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 11, 1862

TO BRO. LANDES, FAIRFIELD, IOWA.

By Moses Hull J. H. Waggoner

Your letter to Bro. White respecting matters in Fairfield has been referred to us inasmuch as we were better acquainted with the circumstances. We regard your letter as containing a fair statement of facts; but to avoid filling the columns of the Review with local matters, we will briefly give our judgment on the several facts that have transpired:

1. We hold that a vote to give a letter to a person who is a Sabbath-breaker, or who does not walk with the church, or whose walk is not according to the truth, is itself disorderly, calculated to engender strife, and weaken the influence of the church and of the truth.

2. We hold that the course of Bro. Bartlett was disorderly in attending the meetings of, and preaching for, a body which had rejected both the name and faith of the Seventh-day Adventists, thereby giving countenance to their action before the world.

3. We hold that the further course of Brn. Bartlett, D. W. Hull, and others, is disorderly in receiving them, or making efforts to have them or any of them, received into fellowship, without their making a proper confession, or taking such steps as shall effectually remove the reproach from the cause of truth which they have willfully brought upon it.

We think these points embrace all that it is necessary for us to speak of; but if anything more is demanded for the good of the cause in Iowa (which has been put to shame by the course pursued by some in Fairfield), we may give facts from our own knowledge which will satisfy all in regard to the spirit that has been manifested by some in that place.

MOSES HULL. J. H. WAGGONER.

Russiaville, Ind., March 3, 1862.