Dr. Patton and the Sabbath.
THE reader will recollect the extract we gave from Dr. Patton, on the Sabbath question, in Review No. 16, present volume. In relation to the same extract, a writer, A. H. L., in the Sabbath Recorder of Sept. 27, 1866, says:— “I am glad Dr. Patton has written what he has. It is worth much to the cause of truth. Dr. Prime, of the N. Y. Observer, has written similar things from Switzerland, which we shall notice next week. These tell that God’s time to awaken the people, and vindicate his long-neglected law, hastens. In that awakening, God’s Sabbath, the Seventh Day, the despised Saturday, will take its rightful place. Honest and God-fearing men everywhere will accept it and obey. The world will not. Formal and world-loving professors will not. Proud and prejudiced “great ones of earth” will not. But God’s chosen ones will. Our time, as a people, has come, in which we are to work upward for higher attainments in holiness, and outward to herald God’s truth and vindicate his law in the world. Men will be careless. Men will scoff. Men will oppose. The work is God’s. France will go deeper down. Germany will stray further from God. America will hasten toward the same end. Out of all this God will bring his people and his law, fully vindicated and obeyed. “Fly swiftly round, ye wheels of time,
And bring the welcome day.”