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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 19, 1882

A Hard Question.

. It was Sunday. Mary had been twice to church, and to Sunday-school. From the latter she had drawn a book, in which was a picture of good old Nehemiah in Jerusalem (represented by a Scotch Puritan), rebuking and flogging the Jews for trading on Sunday. The picture was apparently after the Lord's Day Observance Society's own heart. Looking up to her mamma in child-like perplexity, she asked: "Mamma, where is it the Bible says we must keep Sunday instead of Saturday?"

"Mary," said her mother, sharply, "It is time you were in bed and asleep; come, shut that book, and be off to bed immediately." Will some mamma or papa, possessing a little more patience, answer Mary's question? If not, we hope that such will cease to teach that Sunday is the Sabbath or Lord's Day. Parents! To the law and to the testimony for instruction for your little ones, and not to tradition which falsifies them.—Sabbath Memorial.