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Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 7, 1868

E. ENGLES.—Your inquiries respecting Satan, and his fall, are discussed in the work published at this Office entitled, “The Ministration of Angels, and the Origin, History and Destiny of Satan,” more fully than we could investigate them in Bible Class. The maxim that “ignorance of the law excuses no man,” is based on the fact that a knowledge of the law is supposed to be within every man’s reach, and he is accountable for not availing himself of the privilege of becoming acquainted therewith. In case of the Sabbath, a misunderstanding of the law on this point has been suffered to exist while the saints, times and laws have been in the hands of the little horn, and the church has been in the wilderness state. During this period of darkness, the honest-hearted lived up to the best light they had, and will be accepted. But as the church comes up out of the wilderness, new light is given, and a reform from the errors of the dark ages is demanded.