SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS' COLLECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 65, 19 March 1926, Page 11

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS' COLLECTION.

(To the Editor.^ Sir,—"Let There Be Light" states that the people of Australasia are relieved of about £14,000 in hard cash by Seventh. Day Adventtet collections, and draws a distinction between the Army and the Adventists. The Army claims to be a great social influence among working people, and so they are, ; and for this reason they receive a great deal of public support. On the other hand, Seventh Day Adventists claim to ■be a missionary people, which claim cannot be refuted, and I gay, sir, that inasmuch as results of the Army at home shows to us that the public's money is spent on what it is collected for, so does the results and the phenomenal growth of the Seventh Day Adveritist missionary efforts testify to the fhet tlmfc the public money is spent in the spreading Of the Gospel to the heathen, for which it is collected. "Let There Be Light" makes a mouthful of Seventh Day Adventist institutions and errors. Is his own denomination without error and infallible? After all. the principle of Christianity is Christ Jesus and Him crucified, and no one who knows the Seventh Day Adventists as a people, leaving the question of organisation out of it, would dare to say that they have not a passion for humanity in their hearts and a yearning for the spreading of tlie Gospel to the dark-skinned people of the world, for which they give liberally themselves and for which their present campaign is being launched.—l am, etc., LIGHT.