p. 277 | A WARNING by A. J. Cudney

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 29, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 18

A WARNING.

By A. J. Cudney

BY A. J. CUDNEY.

WHEN will S. D. Adventists learn to let patent rights alone, and see the folly of investing large sums of money in uncertain speculations? A few months ago two brethren were induced to invest, one $1,700, the other about $500, in a business that proved to be a perfect fraud. They not only lost the money invested, but considerable time in trying to recover it. Another man who commenced to keep the Sabbath about one year ago, but claimed to be too poor to take the REVIEW or purchase any of our books, has since, as might be expected, given up the truth. He was visited by a sleek-tongued individual, who had but little trouble in persuading this “poor” man to invest $1,500 in a patent feed-rack. And we have just heard of another brother, who has a large family to support, and is in close circumstances, who has permitted a patent-right man to swindle him out of $400.

All this has taken place in one county, in a little over one year. These sums, taken together, amount to $4,100, being more than equal to the amount paid for the advancement of present truth by the whole State of Nebraska in twice that length of time. Brethren, think of this. It is not surprising to see men of the world, in their mad pursuit after riches, run great risks at times; but to see those who profess to believe that Jesus is soon coming, squander in this manner the means that God has lent them, is astonishing indeed, especially when we consider that souls are perishing all around us for lack of the knowledge which this money, properly used, might have enabled them to gain.