Red Faces for SDAs
group as they have different letter heads and seemingly different of fices in Washington, D.C. When the two sets of materials arrived, however, it seemed obvious that there was a tie-in. “ Instructions were therefore im mediately given that the Alerts should not be used even though they did not appear on the surface to have, any SDA implications. The SDA literature has been shipped back to the SDA headquarters in Washington as undesirable and un suitable for Salvation Army needs.” These are the facts of a typical SDA propaganda scheme. When the scheme blew up, the SDAs retreated in red-faced silence. Apparently they have neither the courage nor the honesty to admit to such a lie . . . even when they are caught red- handed.
A Small Gadfly Does A Big Job
of the little (3,500 circulation) Christian Truth magazine (Bible Truth Publishers [Plymouth Breth ren], 239 Harrison St., Oak Park, 111., $1.25 a year) launched a hard hitting 10-page article in his Oc tober issue. The article got results. On No vember 26, Lt. Commissioner L. W. Cowan of the Salvation Army Na tional Headquarters in New York wrote Editor Wilson: “ I must point out [it] is not according to all the facts, and represents The Salvation Army in light altogether false and unfortunate . . . . I am attaching the simple facts of the case, and I am sure you will desire in the in terest of truth and factual reporting to give an equally prominent erra tum statement in your ‘Editor’s Column’ so that Salvationists, and Army friends and supporters, will not be further embarrassed.” Here is the statement issued by The Salvation Army referred to by Commissioner Cowan: “ In July last when materials were being assembled for our Pro gram Service kits supplied to our officers, resource materials were sought for the observance of Tem perance Sunday on October 27. The New York Temperance Society gave a Washington, D.C. number as the headquarters of the National Temperance Association. The Tem perance Association. promised to send Alert, a publication of the In ternational Temperance Association. “ The following day a letter was received from the Home Mission ary Department of the Seventh-day . Adventists following an alleged tele phone message and offering to send free 2,000 copies of Seventh-day Adventist pamphlets. The SDA pamphlets and the Alerts arrived at the same time. “ Now it is obvious that The Sal vation Army had no way of know ing the connection between the temperance people and the SDA
T hree hundred years before the time of our Saviour, the philos opher Socrates spoke of himself as a gadfly to arouse a thoughtless pub lic. Over the past few months a little-known C h r is tian magazine has turned in a notable job of pres ent-day gadflying. By now most evangelicals (par ticularly foreign missionaries) know that the Seventh-day Adventists’ stock-in-trade is deception. Then- well-oiled propaganda machine has hoodwinked a small army of un suspecting people over the years. Then 18 months ago they made their biggest haul to date when a fair-sized e v a n g e lic a l m aga z in e swallowed the SDA propaganda bait with such ease that it seemed to border on the edge of the incred ible. Hard on the heels of this choice bit of success, SDA leaders stumbled onto a set-up that had all the ear marks of a really bigtime operation. Last summer The Salvation Army started gathering temperance liter ature and called The New York Temperance Society for help. The Society referred the Army to the National Temperance Association in Washington, D.C. While com pletely unidentified as such, the Na tional Temperance Association is SDA. Out of this innocent contact the SDA, through twisted fact and out right lie, cooked up a scheme to tie their literature in with the Army. Crowed the SDA Review and Her ald under a banner “ As W e Go to Press” headline in their August 15, 1957 edition: “ W e trust that this literature will bring inspiration and blessing to every one of these Sal vation Army leaders.” (For the complete article as printed in Re view and Herald see cut.) Now it was time for the gadfly to go to work. While other Christian publications passed up this newest SDA venture, Editor Paul Wilson
Salvation Army Requests Literature for Leaders Recently a long distance telephon< call to the General Conference from Salvation Army headquarters in Nev York City brought a request for inspi rational literature that could be sup plied to their 2,000 field leaders across the United States. After the matter was discussed [>y representatives of the General Confer ence, it was suggested that the Salva tion Army buy 2,000 copies of David Dare, and in addition, we would give them 2,000 copies of Steps to Christ with a special imprint on the back: “ Compliments of the General Confer ence of Seventh-day Adventists, Wash ington 12, D.C.” In twenty-four hours the Review and Herald Publishing Association had printed the cover of Steps to Christ with this special imprint and had bound the 2,000 copies. These were rushed to Salvation Army Head quarters in New York City in time to meet the deadline set by them. The Temperance Department and the War Service Commission also cooperated by supplying 2,000 copies of A lert and Smoke Signals. We trust that this literature will bring inspiration and blessing to every one of these Salvation Army leaders. A dlai A. E steb
This is exact reproduction of story in SDA Review and Herald of August 15, 1957.
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