p. 55 | Sabbath-keeping a Greater Sin than Drunkenness

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1866

Sabbath-keeping a Greater Sin than Drunkenness.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

A CIRCUMSTANCE came under my observation a short time since, where two members belonged to one church. One of these members became a confirmed drunkard, but was retained in the church in this condition for over three years. At length another member of said church, and one too who was in high standing, embraced present truth and began to keep the Sabbath. Soon as the fact was ascertained, a church-meeting was called and the Sabbath-keeper, together with the drunkard, was expelled from the church. While they could fellowship a drunkard for three years, they could not fellowship a Sabbath-keeper at all; thus virtually saying that Sabbath-keeping is a greater crime than drunkenness.

Yet the minister of this same church worked very hard to prove that any seventh part of time was all that it was necessary to keep, in order to obey the Sabbath commandment. Notwithstanding this, he could expel a member for keeping the seventh day! This day perhaps is not a seventh part of time as well as Sunday! "O consistency, thou art a jewel!"

D. M. CANRIGHT.