Freeman Was Not a Seventh-day Adventist
By Editor
So many inquiries have come in asking whether Freeman, who murdered his little daughter at Pocasset, Mass., was a Seventh-day Adventist, or not, that it may be well to say again that he was not. He had no more connection with us, than he would have had, had he been a Mohammedan. Neither had the Mr. Haughawout, at the bottom of the Gifford tragedy, in Iowa, mentioned in REVIEW, No. 18. The reason why such men are supposed by some to be Seventh-day Adventists is because in very many places the people have never heard of any other kind of Adventists, and hence when they read that such and such a person was an Adventist, they think at once that he belonged to our people. Persons of weak and unbalanced minds belonging to any denomination, are of course liable to be impelled into disgraceful, if not fatal fanaticism, like the Methodist man mentioned in another paragraph. But, as we stated last week, we regard the doctrines of S. D. Adventists, appealing as they do to the reason and judgment, and the sense of harmony and consistency, as calculated to restrain and control any tendency to such irregularities.