The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-02-22
DIR. A. p. MILLER.

The Journal recently contained sew
eral insinuations against DIR. Miller. A
friend of the Doctor wrote the Journal
a letter in defense of the gentleman
whom that paper was stabbing in the
back. The Journal refused to publish
the letter, we understand, because it
''could not conscientiously do So" It
can attack however wrongfully with a
good conscience, but it cannot publish
any defence without violating it's ten
der conscience. The gentleman has
handed the letter to us, which we give
below:
EDITOR W0RTH1NaTON JOURNAL:
In a short article of last weeks issue
referring to DR.. A. p. Miller you say:
''Whether his income is $500 or $40, 900
per day, the people of Worthingt0n
have no confidence in him. He had
better square up some just claims that
stand against him before he talks of
buying Wortllington. How this kind
of language may strike the minds of
the people of Worthington who have
had no previous acquaintance with him
/ will not attempt to say; but to those
who have known him personally and
intimately for years, such language can
but cause deep feeling Of pam, gradu-
ated, of course, by the character and
standing of the source from which it
springs. If this article truthfully re-
fleets the esti nate placed upon the
character of DR.. Miller by the people of
WOrthington, [ feel it to he my duty to
say that | have known him for many
years in his public and private life, and
1 believe l do not exaggerate when l
say that lie stood peer to any man in
the city Of Toledo or i'll Northwestern
{ 10 III point of honor, integrity, pub
j and prlvSte enterprise. personal ap-
piication and interchangeable industry,
and would universally he regarded rs a
prominent example of the triumph and
good results of patient and persistent
personal industry and i life devoted to
the cause of God and humanity. For
years lie was an honored member of st.
Paul's NJ. L. Church, of Toledo "a
model clurch), and Superintendent Of
its Sabbath School, and was chosen to
represent that church at the North
Ohio Conference.
This is the character and standing of
DR.. Miller ut the time of the founding
of the National Colony enterprise.
However much misfortune may have
been experienced by the members of
this colony, those WHO have known Dr..
Miller will he very slow to believe him to
be the character indicated in that arti-
Gle. know him to he uniformly very
kind hearted, unpretentious, modest
man, very far from boasting of his own
wealth or superiority. The founders of
the National Colony enterprise were
others as we'll as profit to themselves in
it's original conception. But providen-
TALLY those expectations have been de-
feated, and we all have seen the accu-
mutations of years of toll swept away,
and [ suspect that up to the present
time there are none within the limits of
this colony who have suffered more
than its founders. We cannot benefit
ourselves or any one else by dropping
down into the spirit of elimination and
recrimination: 1t will be far better for
us to rise to the recognition of the fact
has led u Whole community into one
common trial and made us FELLOWSHIP
ferers together. and is calling to us now
to embrace this divinely chosen oppor-
t0nity to learn the lesson of earnest,
active sympathy and charity and hum
ble trust in God. j. AMEs.
! THE ADVANCE
A subscriber III an adjoining State
sends us some money OIL subscription
and says:
don't know but you had better book
me for a life subscriber. l don't know
but it will out live me as the journal
don't seem to affect it much. Truth
will triumph. And you have said so
many things in defence of yourself that
I kno.c to he ver:table truths, and so
many things in defence of the Profess
or that l kno,c are facts, that feel like
saying, "Long live the ADVANCE to
defend the rightv'