Note to Sister Eliza Burbee.
By Editor
YOUR letter to Elder M. E. Cornell is before me. As he is from home we briefly notice it as follows—H. V. Reed was never acknowledged as a preacher among us. If he did advocate the Sabbath for awhile, it was when he was in sympathy (as were many in Wisconsin for awhile) with a slanderous sheet called the Messenger of Truth, whose work was to misrepresent, ridicule, and smut the pioneers of the cause. We have seen Reed two or three times, but formed no acquaintance with him. He has never been to Battle Creek, to our knowledge, and has no personal acquaintance with our people in this city. If he says that Mrs. W. says that none but herself are to have visions, he utters a falsehood. If he says that her first visions are being gathered in, he utters another falsehood. The first edition was offered for sale in the list of publications in the Review till all sold. When another edition is called for, or that was by a vote of General Conference, it will be issued and offered for sale. The minister of Jesus Christ will carry truth to present to the people, and not smut and blacking to injure the reputation of others. Has Mr. Reed stooped to this, the veriest drudgery of the Devil, may God and humanity pity him. He may not have made up falsehoods out of new cloth, but probably loves those manufactured by some tool of Satan, and enjoys peddling them out. In this he selects a most fitting forerunner of his anti-law, Age-to-come heresies. The contrast between the people of God, who keep his commandments, and those who teach them abolished, and would smut the reputation of God's loyal people by peddling falsehoods, is clearly seen in Rev. xxii, 14, 15: POSITION OF GOD'S LOYAL PEOPLE.—"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." POSITION, WORK, AND DOOM OF THE DISLOYAL.—"For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." Here are two distinct classes. God forbid that any whose ears have been charmed by the voice of truth in Waterloo, Iowa, and whose hearts have felt the blessedness of the Spirit of truth, should be torn from the first class to join the second, whose doom is outside the golden city of God.