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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 29, 1867

SABBATH AGITATION.

By Editor

We are happy to notice on the part of our Seventh-day Baptist brethren a great increase of effort toward spreading abroad the true light on the great question of the Sabbath. The Sabbath Recorder of Oct. 17, 1867, contains a Report of the Sabbath Tract Society, in which we find the following items:

“HISTORY OF THE SABBATH.”

“Eld. A. H. Lewis says in regard to the work he has in preparation:

“‘By a change in my field of labor, I have been enabled to give more time to the prosecution of the work of my Sabbath History than during any previous year. The history of the first four centuries is now ready for the printer. By pressing the work, I hope to complete the manuscript by the 1st of May, 1868. Circumstances may possibly enable me to do it a little sooner than this, or perhaps prevent it until a later period.’”

“REVIEW OF GILFILLAN.”

“Eld. T. B. Brown is engaged on review of Gilfillan’s work on the Sabbath, in regard to which he says: “‘It will be submitted to the Society as soon as I can, consistently with my ordinary duties, and due regard for my health, which forbids a continued application to study, perfect it.’”

In both these works we expect a valuable contribution to the cause of Sabbath truth, and substantial aid in the great work of Sabbath Reform. We bid them God speed in their noble efforts.

We have received from the Society two new works on the Sabbath question: One a sermon by Eld. A. H. Lewis, preached before the missionary Society at its last anniversary in Alfred, N. Y., and the other a series of four discourses by Eld. N. Wardner, making a pamphlet of 112 pages, entitled, “Nature’s God and His Memorial.” These works are well adapted to the study of those who wish to investigate the Sabbath question. We trust they may be widely circulated. To be had of the Society at Westerly, R. I., Geo. B. Utter, General Agent.