A Significant Item by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1866

A Significant Item

By Editor

A SIGNIFICANT ITEM. The last Independent, under the heading “Installation Declined,” has the following:

“A council was called lately at Upton, Mass., to install Rev. S. O. Dyer as pastor of the church to which he has been preaching as a supply. But the council declined the service, on account of the imperfectness of his views with regard to the final state of the wicked. This question needs a thorough theological examination. The best way to deal with it by councils is also an important inquiry.”

If straws tell which way the wind blows we judge that the “Rev. S. O. Dyer” is on the right track in relation to the destiny of the wicked. At any rate it is evident that he cannot endorse the popular views on this subject. And we are glad that somebody is beginning to get his eyes open far enough to see that “this question needs a thorough theological examination.” If it don't, where is there need of anything? But let it be a common-sense examination, according to the Bible; for popular theology and the Bible, are frequently found now-a-days, to be two very different things.