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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 48.

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DYING DECEMBER.

By Editor

REVIVE the embers of the fire, And sing a happy song; The bell tolls nine beneath the spire And winter nights are long; The world is cold and we grow old, But loving hearts are strong. The love that lives beyond the tomb Burns brighter at the last; Then let the heart-light banish gloom And care go down the past; The glad New Year will soon be here, The old is flying fast.
THE "religious sentiment" which the Christian Statesman's S. F. Correspondent says is the only hope of the success of the Sunday cause, is cacheing itself, as the Spaniards would say. It is now prudently hidden in the mass meetings. "Police regulation" is the watch-word; "patriotism" is the ruling motive; and "the American Sunday" the object. But the law enforces the keeping of the "Christian Sabbath" all the same, and that is the sole intent of those who pull the wires.
THE assassin, Guiteau, insults the public with another "statement." In proof of his insanity at the time of the murder he says: "Only a miracle saved me from being shot then and there. It was the most insane, foolhardy act possible, and no one in his right mind could have done it." This does not at all agree with the surprise he manifested when he learned that the "stalwarts" denounced the act, and that the papers united in his condemnation. He planned as coolly and deliberately as a reckless man could, and only tried the inspiration and insanity dodge when disappointed in not being sustained by other disappointed office seekers. He has also proved himself as cowardly as he is villainous, which is not a trait of insanity.
AFTER a sermon recently preached by an Oakland D. D., in favor of enforcing the Sunday law, some of the members of the congregation were heard giving utterance to strong commendations of the sermon and of the law. Said one: "I am glad the Seventh-day Adventists will have to come to time." We are well aware that this pious feeling is strong in some, and is pleased at the opportunity to show itself. But if these over-religious ones will take pains to read the law of God, which Paul says "is holy, and just, and good," they will learn that the Seventh-day Adventists have come to time, to God's own time, for He himself declared, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah, thy God." He calls it, "My holy day." Whose time is the Sunday, to which they have come? To whom and to what is that time sacred? If any are in doubt upon that question we recommend to their attention the proof given in the article in this paper, on the "Enforcement of the Christian Sabbath."