THÈ KING' S BUSINESS they have established their missions. “ Mrs. Dwight Learned, who with her husband, is at the head of a large (Con gregational) school in Kyota, told me that they (S. D. A’s) make very little effort to reach the unevangelized heathen, but prefer to proselyte those already taught. It is an economical policy, as you can very well see; but extremely discouraging for those who have spent their lives in the field, and labored to train and educate their flock, only to see many of them swept off their feet when confronted with the possi bility that all is lost unless they ac cept the seventh day as the Sabbath of the Lord, according to the Seventh Dayists. This to me is a very serious matter. It is this phase of Seventh Dayism in our midst that I very much deplore. And this proselyting from among our home churches is a more serious menace than perhaps appears on the surface. Over three million dol lars worth of literature they sold last year. If only the third of that fell into the hands of the unwarned and suscep tible, only eternity can compute the mis chief that it wrought. “ It makes me tremble almost to an ticipate God’s displeasure with our mod ern pastor and preacher for not in forming himself and his flock of the multiplying ‘isms’ that jeopardize the souls of men in these days. Satan would find his game blocked consider ably if the lay members of our churches were intelligently informed concerning these subtle false teachers. Once en meshed, many seem perfectly helpless to extricate themselves. “ The fear that apart from their good works and the observance of the sev enth day as the Sabbath, there is no hope of eternal life, holds them like a vice. The ‘ounce of prevention’ in the teaching of sound doctrine is cer tainly ‘worth a pound of cure.’ “ Mrs. White is looked upon and rev erenced as a prophet sent from God;
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consciousness— a process of mental puri fication, as 1 told you. When conscious ness is purified the body is compelled to function normally and harmoniously. Study the definition of Man, page 475, sentence by sentence, every day for a week, and try to realize that you are that man now. Keep yourself out of the everyday life of your home as much as possible all the week, and don’t talk with any one about your condition, ex cept Mr. Andrews. Deny that you ever had a cough. Get that lie out of your thinker. The real man never had any thing hut infinite good. I will come to see you when necessary. “ Yours sincerely, The Herald editor says: “ Brother McWilliams has had a number of copies of the letter made, and we give this just as it came to us. It seems to us that such a letter to one dying would have less of consolation and help in it than a dose of sawdust. But this error is spreading rapidly, and we are out to cry against it.” A Proselyting System. Mrs. Jessie Sage Robertson, who for some years has been thoroughly con versant with the teachings and work ings of Seventh Day Adventism, in a recent letter to the Managing Editor, said the following: “ It is just a waste of breath to argue with them on the Sabbath question; that is one of their idols, and one might just as well do with them as God did with Ephraim: ‘Let them alone.’ “ If I were to start in with tnem, I would start with their false prophet ess. That is the root of the matter. You could not move some of them; but you might reach some, and you might interrupt their wholesale system of proselytism. This has reached pitiful proportions in the foreign fields where SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISM
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