The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-25
ELDER WHITE AGAIN,

tho seyenth-Day Adyontist, or ut least quite
a majority of them, large number of whom
live ut Battle Crock, Michigan, where they
own vast deal Of property, have n splendid
church building aud publishing house
from which emcnates weekly newspaper
known as tho advent lteylow and Sabbath
Herald" Elder White Is one Of the cores
pending editors of that paper, lilo Is the
head of the church, and no has 80 grcat nm
influence with tho members Of the church
that the bulk of them soemlngly believe him
10 bo inhllibo. When he WINS In Texas
about year Ogo he did not soom to form n
good opinion of tho people here aud
after he left he wrote letter
In tho comparatively row copies that cir
10 his paper Ia viii h ho said some
very hard things Of our people. In fact, he
was guilty Of tho grossest ISLANDERS, and he
outraged the truth TO such m extent that II
would make m honest man informed rs TO
Texas and Texans blush to read his iulmna-
tons. The HERALD answered those sland-
ors and Elder kigore, who represents Elder
Whites church in Texas, sent n
mild correction Of his SUPERIOR
torgiyersatlons which WIS published
later here, but In those which went 10
Northern subscribers, that lottor of Elder
Kilgoro was lifted out Of tho forms before
they were printo mud other mottcr put in
tho space, We have copies of the issues of
tho samo date toproyc this, This was another
feature of Elder Whites dupliciy, injustice
and wrong, viii h we made known to tue
world by publishing the facts. The issue of
of our pNper containing this expose was
sent broadcast through Michigan aud
II great number of journals in that State
commented on the facts, aud adversely to
Elder White. Indeed these papers have
made II rather warm for the clerical gentle
man in his own baiwick and the CALLED jade
has WINGED. Members of his church have
expressed themselves rs Disguised with him,
though we mustsay that only alew Of them
can be made to believe the truth
about him. lie has some Of them
completely under his thumb, These seem
to have no minds Of their own, no will that Is
not subiectto his. His wife has visions, she
sNys, and going into frances receives commu-
nicatons and odicts direct from tho Lord.
Whenever it is necessary tc secure n new
lease of influence, one of those visions OPP
portunely turns up, and wonderful as they
may seem they are believed by n large mass
of his adherents. a great many members Of
the church have their doubts Of the genuine
ness of these communicNtions-that is, of
their divine origin, and are not slow to say
so, but the bulk of tho church believe in
thcm. We have nothing to say about the
Seventh Day Adventist church, or the tencts
of its belief. We are impressed with the
idea that the great body are earnest,
conscientious Christians striving to serve
God according TO the dictates of their con-
science and their Interpretation of tho scrip
lures, humbly, faithfully, but we cannot have
any respect for Elder James White who has
so wantonly slandered people who received
him with cordial hospitality and gave him
only kindness while he was in their midst
We can neither believe in the
religion nor the earnestncss of man
who wilfully states untruths, palpable on
their face, for which their can be neither rea-
son nor rhyme. In a late issue of his paper
he has an article near two columns in length
headed SANDER We assume that the article
is from Elder James White, because it is
signed j. w., the signature he gives to all
he writes for the paper. In this
article he makes himself out a
martyr, the victim of an unholy
persecution because of his faith. He quotes
Scripture profusely, not forgetting the words:
"Blessed are they which are prosecuted for
righteousness sake" He in effect says that
no is one of the STEW men who are not trout
bled by journalistic criticism or condemna-
tion." And again he says: "No man who
has acted a prominent part for God and hui
manity has escaped the bitterness and vileness
of the tongue Of SANDER" If he calls
publishing falsehoods about ladies and
slandering an entire people and then sup
pressing correction of these falsehoods and
SANDERS that the evil thereof where it has
been wrought may not be counteracted,
acting "a prominent part for God and hui
manity," why, then, he has been slandered;
otherwise he has not. We should probably
never have noticed Elder James White
again had it not been for the silence of Elder
Kilgore, his lieutenant here in Texas,
whose duty it is, knowing the
falsehoods Elder White has uttered
to correct them, and for the further Acts that
Elder White wrote the article we quoted from
and commented on above, and that the press
to considerable extent in Michigan had ven-
tilated the Elder for his double dealing. To
those papers in Michigan that have come to
the rescue of the people of Texas and aided
them in showing up Elder Whites false
hoods about them, we, in the name of
our people, tender their kindest ac-
acknowledgements, And to the Seventh