ELD. CANRIGHT’S TREATMENT OF ELD. AND MRS. WHITE

INGRATITUDE to those who have shown us much love and many acts of kindness, is never commendable. Repaying such acts of favor with bitterness and misrepresentation is still worse. And worst of all do such things appear when we abuse the reputation of those who have treated us with special affection, after they have gone to the silent grave and cannot answer for themselves. We dislike to use language that would fitly characterize such conduct in the case of Eld. Canright. We could hardly have believed he would ever descend so low in his treatment of S.D. Adventists as to invade the cemetery, and dig up the dust and bones, figuratively speaking, of the honored pioneer of this denomination—the lamented Eld. James White, who for some six years has been peacefully sleeping from his ardent and sacrificing labors. The honor (?) of doing such work, so far as we have knowledge, since the old veteran’s death, belongs wholly to Eld.C. He is entitled to all its benefits. We know of none who will desire to share it with him save the Christian (?) Oracle, of Des Moines, Iowa, which furnished him a fitting channel through which to pour out this stream of gall and bitterness upon the tomb. The fountain and channel are mutually appropriate to each other. We quote from this paper’s issue of Aug.14,1887, from Eld. C.:—RCASDA 81.1

“My first doubts were aroused by the tyrannical, domineering course of Eld. James White. Time and again I have seen a whole Conference sit for hours like whipped dogs, and take the most terrible denunciations from him. It made my blood boil; yet, like a coward, with the rest I dared not say a word, though we all knew it was unjust. As Mrs. White upheld him, generally, it led me to doubt her inspiration and the whole doctrine.”RCASDA 81.2

“In 1873 I spent a few weeks with Eld. White in Colorado. We had an open rupture, followed by a scathing ‘testimony’ from Mrs. White, which I knew to be untrue in many respects.”RCASDA 81.3

“But we soon made up, and I went on all right for years, with only a slight brush with Eld. White once or twice. But that was nothing peculiar to me, for there was not a leading man in the whole ranks with whom he did not some time have a quarrel, the same as with me. If there is such a man, let him speak out.”RCASDA 81.4

“Under date of Battle Creek, Mich., July 13. 1881, just a few weeks before he died, Eld. White wrote me thus: ‘I have repeatedly abused you, and if you go to destruction, where many, to say the least, are willing you should go, I should ever feel I had taken part in your destruction.... I do not see how any man can labor with me.... Forgive my mistakes, and believe me when I say that every part of your long letter seems just and right.’ Eld. White was a strong man, with some excellent qualities, and some very objectionable ones. Such humble confessions made to me by Eld. White, time and again, held me with them, when in my better judgement I knew things were not right.”RCASDA 82.1

These efforts to present the lamented Eld. White as a tyrant, domineering over everything, quarreling with all his fellow-laborers, dealing out “terrible denunciations” right and left, and putting the whole denomination in terror, so that a wholeRCASDA 82.2

Conference has sat “for hours like whipped dogs,” Eld. Canright may think is a very creditable performance on his part. It shows the spirit and taste of the man when left to manifest his more unamiable traits, his coarser qualities, when driven on by that spirit which seems to take possession of those who give up God’s truth. In other days he had friends to counsel with him, and save him from making an exposure of these unlovely qualities. But as he has cast these aside, he seems to have found none to fill their place. We pity him, and would advise his orthodox friends to step in and, if possible, save him from himself. teach him that which we supposed all persons of good breeding knew, to speak decently, at least, of the dead.RCASDA 82.3

But in reference to Eld. White, we, as one of many who ever expect to revere his memory, denounce as a gross misrepresentation these statements. It is anything but a correct delineation of Eld. White’s character and public life. He was not a quarrelsome man in any such sense as this term is usually understood. He was a man of strong feelings, very energetic, firm as a rock for what he thought was right, and one who dared to speak his mind when he thought duty required it. He was not turned aside easily in efforts he considered necessary for the good of the cause; and if his brethren stood in the way of such move, he expressed his mind plainly concerning their attitude. These qualities sometimes brought unpleasant things into public meetings, which were a source of sorrow to him and to others. He was a man of great forethought and ability to plan and execute, and was generally right in his plans and undertakings. But he was human, and consequently erring, as humanity always is, and sometimes made mistakes. But, as Eld. Canright is constrained to say, when he saw he was wrong, he was free to admit it and acknowledge it, even publicly. He was one of the noblest-hearted, most generous men in many things, I ever met, and as such had the confidence of our people and multitudes of friends who will ever revere his memory. Eld. White carried the heaviest kind of a burden in leading out, with his wife, in the early days of this movement. He had many hard and thankless duties to do, which wore upon his spirits and aged him prematurely. He had as many as four distinct shocks of paralysis, some of them so severe that his life was despaired of, and he came very near the brink of the grave. His friends could but notice the effects of these and the wear and tear of hard labor upon his nervous system, in his later years. These things made him appear at times at a disadvantage. He got the reputation, with some persons of little consideration, of being irritable. But most of our brethren had sense and religion enough to make allowance for the old, stanch, earnest captain, fighting his Master’s battles, who was so severely worn, and they did not store away every little incident which might for the time being seem a little unpleasant, to rankle in the the heart, to bring out on a favorable occasion with which to demean his memory. They have a high respect for him as a noble veteran in the cause of God. The citizens of Battle Creek, and many prominent men of the State of Michigan who know him, had a high regard for him. In a volume giving the biographies of leading men of Michigan who have left honored names because of their enterprise, ability, and sterling qualities, Eld. White has a very favorable place.RCASDA 82.4

The writer had long and intimate acquaintance with him, and for many years was associated with him in labor, and sometimes we did not agree, and unpleasant things occurred. Yet I never saw the day but that I had a high regard for him as a man of many noble qualities, as an earnest Christian; and God forbid that I should ever follow Eld. Canright’s course in publishing to the world such statements as he has made!RCASDA 83.1

The fact is, Eld. White showed a special interest for Eld. C. He gave him a Bible and a pair of charts, and encouraged him to go into the ministry when he was little known among our people. He often took him to his house and treated him like a son. No doubt he did reprove him at times, and who shall say he did n’t need it? Eld. C. appeared to think much of him. A little while before his death when Eld. C. married his present wife, Eld. White was the man who was wanted to “tie the knot.” In the very words Eld. Can right quotes from his private letters just before his death, Eld. W. writes a tender confession to him. His heart was generous to a fault when he thought he had done a person a wrong. He is represented as asking Eld. C. to forgive his faults and mistakes. Eld. C. himself says, “He humbly owned up all I claimed with regard to his course.” And now, kind reader, what do you think of the course Eld. Canright has pursued toward one who had treated him in such a way, and manifested toward him just before his death such a humble, Christian spirit? Do you think you would publish him to the world as a tyrant, quarrelsome, domineering, ill-tempered, lording it over God’s heritage? Can you see anything to admire in such a course in the man who writes it or the paper which publishes it? We leave you to answer. These things would never have been done but for a miserable, vindictive, unchristian spirit cherished in the heart against the people from whom he has turned away.RCASDA 83.2

We now notice his treatment of Mrs. White, who still lives. In regard to her he blows cold and hot by turns. At times she is one of the most devoted persons on earth, and earnest Christian, honest, benevolent, pure-minded, working unselfishly for humanity, a friend of the poor, and worthy of the highest respect. Then again she is an oppressor, a fanatic who never ought to be permitted to speak in a Christian pulpit, one who deceives the people, who he compares to Mohammed, Joe Smith, Ann Lee, etc., etc.RCASDA 84.1

To a common person not given to lofty tumbling or the science of the acrobat, these two positions would seem irreconcilable. But lest the reader will think we misrepresent, we will quote from the Elder. In one of his public efforts “exposing” Adventism, in Otsego, Mich., last summer, Eld. W. C. Gage, of Battle Creek, Mich., was present. He testifies as follows concerning the Elder’s statements about Mrs. White: “He said the question would very naturally be asked if Mrs. White was a fraud or a bad woman. He was ready to reply at once that she was not; that she was as good a woman as he knew. Her piety was unquestioned, and as to ability he said there was not one woman in a thousand who was equal to her in point of natural ability and that which is acquired by cultivation. He said he had lived in her house and therefore was well acquainted with her. She was a kind-hearted woman, philanthropic, charitable, and gentle in her life, and ever evinced a great love for humanity. He stated that she was doubtless honest in supposing she had revelations from God, and really thought they came from that source, when in reality they were hallucinations of her own mind.”RCASDA 84.2

These statements of Eld. Gage are not given as the exact word he use, but express the substance of what he said concerning her character. They are literally true, as thousands of people not of our faith are willing to testify where she is know best. That Eld. C. should say so in view of his present feelings toward her, is positive proof of his knowledge that her character is unassailable. He would not be likely to say so in the presence of a public congregation, when he was about to ridicule her as he did, and do what he could to break down confidence in her work, unless she was generally known to be a woman of true excellence and Christian integrity. The favorable testimony of an enemy is the highest kind of evidence. And now let us hear on the other side of this question:—RCASDA 85.1

“A people are to be pitied who are so narrow and bigoted that they cannot allow any one to be a Christian or even honest who does not see things just as they do. That is one of the worst features of Seventh-day Adventism. They get this from Mrs. White, who condemns everybody that dares to reject her testimonies. I know that this is so.”—Canright in Christian Oracle of Aug. 4, 1887.RCASDA 85.2

This statement as to S.D. Adventists and Mrs. White I know to be utterly untrue. There are thousands all around us not of our faith whom our people believe to be as honest Christians as ourselves, and Eld. C. knows it. Why do we not stop all or efforts to reach men who do not believe with us, if we think they are all dishonest? This is one of those extravagant statements the Elder so often makes. Mrs. Whites is one of the last persons to condemn those who do not embrace her testimonies. She always counsels the people to leave them perfectly free to investigate and decide for themselves, without bringing any pressure upon them. She does speak, however, against those who have believed them and known of them for years, who go out and misrepresent her and her work. But how can Mrs. White be at the same time such a pious, kind-hearted, devoted person, and yet so bigoted and unjust as to “condemn everybody” who dares to reject her testimonies? This is a conundrum we leave the Elder to solve.RCASDA 85.3

In the Michigan Christian Advocate of Oct. 13, 1887, he shows his high appreciation of Mrs. White by comparing her with Ann Lee, Joseph Smith, Joanna Southcott, and others; and the work of S.D. Adventists with that of the Shakers, the Mormons, and followers of Mrs. Southcott. The comparison, in his judgment, seems greatly in favor of those impostors and fanatics, as he believes them all to be; while Mrs. White and the poor Adventists are far behind them in real success and spiritual power. Speaking of the Southcott movement, he says: “The present Seventh-day Adventist move is small and feeble compared to that. After forty-three years’ effort they number less than one third as many.” Speaking of the inspiration of the Mormons, he says: “The proof of their inspiration beats Mrs. Whites’s all to pieces.... They have increased ten times as fast as the Adventists.” Writing of Ann Lee, he says: “She exceeds Mrs. White in this line” (purity and holiness) “so that ‘Shaker’ has become a synonym for honesty.” The despised Adventists, you see, are nowhere compared with those fanatics. This is from the man who stayed with them “twenty-eight years,” and was so eminent among them, and felt so badly when he had to leave all his old friends! It almost killed the poor fellow to leave the society of such a set of narrow-mined fanatics! What a commentary on the the Elder’s religious training! And he tells us, “Since I was converted among the Methodists, thirty years ago, I have never once backslidden nor ceased an active Christian life either in private or public.” Strange how he could keep his piety so immaculate in such a society that was really worse off than the Mormons and Shakers!RCASDA 86.1

But to show his opinion of Mrs. White and her work, we will introduce the comparison he makes between her and her work and people, and Mrs. Southcott and her work. He says: “This movement, occurring only thirty years before Mrs. White’s work, was almost exactly like the present Seventh-day Adventist move. An illiterate woman is the leader. She has visions, writes numerous pamphlets and revelations, predicts the speedy advent of Christ,and says the Jewish Sabbath must be kept,” etc. Then in another place he speaks of Mrs. Southcott: “She regarded herself as the bride of the Lamb, and declared herself, when sixty-four years of age, pregnant with the true Messiah, the ‘second Shiloh,’ whom she would bear Oct. 19, 1814. She surrounded herself with prophets, and in order to prepare herself for the new dispensation ordered the strictest observance of the Jewish Sabbath. A costly cradle was kept in readiness for the reception of the Messiah, and for a long time she waited for his birth. At last a supposititious child was declared to be he. But the fraud was detected.”RCASDA 86.2

And this was the movement which the Elder declares over his own name “was almost exactly like the present Seventh-day Adventist movement.” And this is the kind of an impression he is trying to give the world, of the people he has so thoroughly known for “twenty-eight years.” He has been in the mill, and “knows all about them.” What conclusion could strangers to our faith draw concerning Mrs. White and S.D. Adventists from such language? Almost exactly alike.” Think of it, candid reader. Here was a woman who made the most ridiculous prediction possible, and tried her best to palm off a fraud to carry our her deceptions, and yet her work and that of Mrs, White are “almost exactly alike,: the difference being that the latter is really insignificant compared with that of Southcott! And yet in another place Mrs. White is an “honest, devoted Christian,’” one of the best he ever knew. What sort of wine of “Babylon” has our old acquaintance, D.M.C., been drinking since he left us, that his mind is so disordered? Yet he wonders we don’t feel perfectly placid while he is “conscientiously” doing his duty to the world by making such statements and showing up our “fanatical” character.RCASDA 87.1

We now present statements made by him concerning Mrs. White, in a handbill, in the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., when we were holding our camp-meeting there the last of September, 1887. His agents were sent upon the ground with thousands of these to circulate among the crowds on his “Sunday Lord’s day,” his new sacred day. This attack upon Mrs. White was wholly unprovoked by her.RCASDA 87.2

He commences his attack upon her by this heading:—RCASDA 87.3

“Mrs E.G. White to the Professed Christian Churches in Grand Rapids,” and continues by quoting out of their connection sentences from her writings which he thinks he can make appear most objectionable. We give several specimens, as follows:—RCASDA 87.4

“‘I saw the state of the different churches since the second angel proclaimed their fall. [1844.] They have been growing more and more corrupt; yet they bear the name of being Christ’s followers. It is impossible to distinguish them from the world. Their ministers take their texts from the word, but preach smooth things.... Satan has taken full possession of the churches as a body. The sayings and doings of men are dwelt upon instead of the plain, cutting truths of the word of God.... They are Satan’s own faithful servants, notwithstanding they have assumed another name. I saw that since Jesus had left the holy place of the heavenly Sanctuary [1844], and had entered within the second vail, the churches were left as were the Jews; and they have been filling up with every unclean and hateful bird. I saw great iniquity and vileness in the churches; yet they profess to be Christians. Their professions, their prayers, and their exhortations are an abomination in the sight of God. Said the angel, God will not dwell in their assemblies. Selfishness, fraud, and deceit are practiced by them without the reprovings of conscience. And over all these evil traits they throw the cloak of religion.... Jesus and the angel look upon them in anger. Said the angel, Their sins and their pride have reached unto heaven. Their portion is prepared. Justice and judgment have slumbered long, but will soon awake.’-Spiritual Gifts 1:189, 190, by “MRS. E. G. WHITE, prophetess.RCASDA 88.1

“The above quotations from Mrs. White show her attitude and that of her people toward all other churches and Christians. Every intelligent man knows it is an outrageous slander upon the Christian churches and Christian people of the land. If she had said that some bad men creep into churches and some churches tolerate them, it would do; but she makes the sweeping statement that ‘Satan has taken full possession of the churches as a body,’ and that they ‘are filled with fornication and adultery, crime and murder.’ Is this true? Is it anywhere near true? Is it not shamefully false? If these things were generally known, they would justly shut her out of every pulpit in the land.RCASDA 88.2

“The people are invited to hear her at the camp-ground. Will they hear anything like that?—No, indeed. Her words will be smoother than oil. These statements are made for her people to read. Scores of copies of them will be sold on the ground. If it is said that these quotations are garbled, let the books be called for and read. In public she preaches finely on popular subjects, as temperance, conversion, etc.; but to her people, writes as above. I have been through the mill, and know ‘the true inwardness’ of it. I repeat that she rules that people with a rod of iron, and meddles with the most private affairs of families and individuals.”RCASDA 88.3

That the reader may appreciate the animus of this attack, let him take in the situation. Mrs. White was a total stranger in Grand Rapids. She came there to talk wholly on religious themes, and benefit the people by teaching temperance and Bible religion. She had not spoken in any way publicly of Eld. Canright, and did not during her stay. She had treated him kindly, and like a son, in the past. Yet without one word of provocation from her, Eld. C. caused such a document to be circulated in every way possible among strangers, to rouse up the most uncharitable feelings. Is it any wonder that after waiting many months, during which he has been pouring out his bile through the papers, to go to all parts of the world, we should at last be compelled to expose such attacks as these after such outrageous treatment?RCASDA 89.1

Let us notice the essential unfairness of this attack, and these quotations from her writings. They are taken, let the reader notice, from Spiritual Gifts 1:189, 190. This volume was published in 1858. It presents a connected view of the “Great Controversy between Christ and Satan,” commencing with the fall of Satan, presenting many incidents in the great plan of salvation and reaching down to the bringing in of the new heavens and new earth, long after the close of probation. This volume is not out of print. These extracts are taken from the chapter on the “Sins of Babylon,” a period embraced in the view she presents reaching from 1844 to the close of probation. It is evident that she is speaking mainly of the time just before the coming of Christ takes place, when corruption will have completely permeated the great religious bodies. This is evident because this chapter is placed between two other chapters, the first headed. “The Shaking Time,” and the other, “The Loud Cry.” Any one who knows the views of Seventh-day Adventists is familiar with this fact, that they believe there is to be a “great shaking” out of half-hearted believer from the Advent body before the Lord will mightily work for them, and prepare them for the “loud cry” of the Third Angels’s Message of Revelation 14:9-12. This “loud cry” just precedes the appearing of Christ, and we believe it is still future. The shaking time is mainly future also. Now this chapter on the “Sins of Babylon” is placed chronologically by the writer herself between these two, both of them future. Any candid mind can readily see that her terrible description of the state of things in the churches refers, therefore, largely to the future, though much that she says applies to the condition of things existing in them already. The strongest expressions, such as “Satan has taken full possession of the churches as bodies,” most likely refer to them just before probation closes.RCASDA 89.2

But in these very extracts, the most objectionable he could find in all her writings, she speaks of the condition of the churches as a progressive one toward evil, e.g., “The churches were left as were the Jews; and they have been filling up with every unclean and hateful bird.” They were not filled up, but “filling” up. Here is a changing process going on as among the Jews. God in his mercy had long spared people after they had as a body rejected Christ’s first advent. So after the churches as bodies reject the proclamation of his second advent, he bears with them while the process of corruption goes on apace.RCASDA 90.1

In another column this matter is explained in an article on the “Fall of Babylon.”RCASDA 90.2

Notice now the manifest unfairness of Eld. Canright’s attack on Mrs. White. To prejudice the people against her, he represents these statements of hers as applying at a time when he has every reason to know they do not apply, and then declares her statements. to be “shamefully false,” and states that they would justly “shut her out of every pulpit in the land.” We leave the candid reader to decide who has been engaged in the work of falsehood.RCASDA 90.3

Notice again how harmonious (?) are Eld. Canright’s statements of Mrs. White. At one time she is “honest,” a “devoted Christian,” a humane, pure, noble-minded woman. Then again she makes statements “shamefully false,” and is unworthy to be in any “pulpit in the land.” Beautifully consistent, is it not?RCASDA 90.4

We now cite one more statement of the Elder’s concerning Mrs. W. It was printed in the Grand Rapids daily Democrat of Sept.23, 1887, just before our camp-meeting commenced:—RCASDA 90.5

“She rules that people with a rod of iron, dictating in everything, in doctrine and discipline, in diet and dress, in public affairs and private, in marriage, in family matters, in everything.” Then after quoting a sentence from her writings out of its connection, he adds: “Hence she meddles with the most private affairs of families, till, to a person of spirit, it becomes an intolerable bore.” “‘To be ruled by a busybody is more than human nature can bear.’”—Macaulay.RCASDA 91.1

This most malignantly false statement of Eld. Canright we will let the Elder himself answer. In a series of articles written by Eld. Canright, and published in the REVIEW AND HERALD, entitled a “Plain Talk to Murmurers,” commencing March 15, 1877, he says concerning the same woman: “As to the Christian character of sister White, I beg leave to say that I know something about it. I have been acquainted with sister White for eighteen years, more than half the history of our people. I have been in their family time and again, sometimes weeks at a time. They have been in our house and family many times. I have traveled with them almost every where; have been with them in private and public; in meeting and out of meeting; and have had the very best chance to know something of the life, character, and spirit of brother and sister White. As a minister, I have to deal with all kinds of persons, and all kinds of characters, till I can judge something of what a person is, at least, after years of intimate acquaintance. I know sister White to be an unassuming modest, kind-hearted, noble woman. These traits in her character are not simply put on and cultivated, but they spring gracefully and easily from the natural disposition. She is not self-conceited, self-righteous, and self-important, as fanatics always are. I have frequently come in contact with fanatical persons, and I have always found them to be full of pretensions, full of pride, ready to give their opinion boastfully of their holiness, etc. But I have ever found sister White the reverse of all this. Any one of the poorest and humblest can go to her freely for advice and comfort without being repulsed. She is ever looking after the needy, the destitute, and the suffering, providing for them and pleading their cause. I have never formed an acquaintance with any person who so constantly has the fear of God before them. Nothing is undertaken without earnest prayer to God. She studies God’s word carefully and constantly.RCASDA 91.2

“I have heard sister White speak hundreds of times, have read all her ‘Testimonies’ through and through, most of them many times, and I have never been able to find one immoral sentence in the whole of them, or anything that is not strictly pure and Christian, nothing that leads away from the Bible or Christ; but there I find the most earnest appeals to obey God, to love Jesus, to believe the Scriptures, and to search them constantly. I have received great spiritual benefit, times without number, from the ‘Testimonies.’” “If I have any judgment, any spiritual discernment, I pronounce of “Testimonies’ to be of the same spirit and of the same tenor as the Scriptures.” “For thirty years these ‘Testimonies’ have been believed and read by our people. How has it affected them? Has it led them away from the law of God? Has it led them to give up faith in Christ? Has it led them to throw aside the Bible? Has it led them to be a corrupt and immoral people? I know that they will compare favorably with any other Christian denomination. One thing I have remarked, and that is that the most bitter opponents of the visions admit that she is a Christian. How they can make this admission is more than I know. They try to fix it up by saying that she is deceived. They are not able to put their finger upon a single stain in all her life, or an immoral sentence in all her writings. They have to admit that much of her writings is excellent, and that whoever would live out all she says would be a good Christian, sure of heaven. This is passing strange if she is a tool of the Devil, inspired of Satan, or if her writings are immoral or the vagaries of her own mind.RCASDA 91.3

We do not cite these passages from the Elder’s writings to convince any one that these “Testimonies” are inspired. This is not our object, but merely to let the reader see what kind of a woman Mrs. White was in the Elder’s estimation after such an intimate acquaintance with her for “eighteen years.” But did he not change his mind soon after this? Did he not come to believe Mrs. White’s writings were evil and she a meddlesome, tyrannical fanatic as he now claims?RCASDA 92.1

We answer this question by referring the reader to Eld. Canright’s Confession, published originally in the The Review and Herald, October 7, 1884, and now reprinted in these pages. This confession was made only about three years since, and Eld. C. himself will not claim Mrs. White’s character has changed since then.RCASDA 92.2

Is it not astonishing that a man of his parts can change about with such recklessness, in so short a time, that he dares to place statements so utterly contradictory before the great public? No man can reconcile these statements. Was he telling the truth about Mrs. White when he was among us? Thousands of us know those earlier statements are literally true. Many eminent citizens of Battle Creek and other places where she is best known, not of our faith, would testify to the same effect. The leading citizens of Battle Creek, the prominent business men of the place, arranged a meeting for her to speak on some subject of her own choosing, and publicly invited her in the Daily Journal to do so at her recent visit here after the Grand Rapids camp-meeting. She complied and spoke to a large congregation. The Adventists had nothing to do in bringing this about. This shows clearly whether she is considered a “fanatic,” or one unworthy to speak in any “pulpit” or not. The following notice of the meeting appeared in the Battle Creek Journal of Oct. 5:—RCASDA 92.3

“There was a good attendance, including a large number of our most prominent people, at the lecture of Mrs. Ellen G. White, at the Tabernacle, last evening.RCASDA 93.1

“This lady gave her audience a most eloquent discourse, which was listened to with marked interest and attention. Her talk was interspersed with instructive facts which she had gathered in her recent visit to foreign lands, and demonstrated that this gifted lady has, in addition to her many other rare qualifications, a great faculty for attentive, careful observation, and a remarkable memory of details. This, together with her fine delivery and her faculty of clothing her ideas in choice, beautiful, and appropriate language, made her lecture one of the best that has ever been delivered by any lady in our city. That she may soon favor our community with an other address, is the earnest wish of all who attended last evening; and should she do so, there will be a large attendance.”RCASDA 93.2

We now bring this article to a close. If Eld. Canright told the truth about her, as we know he did, in years past, he certainly is not telling truth in his recent statements. If he was telling falsehoods then, how can we believe his present statements? We leave him to solve this enigma. G. I. B.RCASDA 93.3