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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 22, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 25.

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Manitoba

By Alva A.; Mrs. Stewart

MINIOTA.— It has been nearly a year since we came to this place, and many things indicate that we have but a short time in which to give the message. A few days ago we were startled, when spending two days with petitions for religious freedom, to find so many in favor of religious persecution, if need be, to enforce more stringent “sabbath” observance. In that length of time, the day of which was spent in town, sufficient names could be obtained for all two petitions.
Mr. Gamble, of Ottawa, Kan., who is well known to most of our people, has made a tour of Manitoba, and is now, I believe, doing the same in Ontario. Evening Journal (St. Thomas, Ontario) devoted the first column of its issue of March 7 to a report of his meeting held in that city. This much will be of interest, as it fulfils some of the things we are told to expect: “To one sect is ascribed in large measure the coming of thousands of men to work on Sabbath. By means of this sect, was secured legislation for securing to men Sunday rest, and of securing for ourselves legislation permitting them to work on Sunday, so that they might rest on their Saturday sabbath. . . . By means of a chart he showed that Sunday sabbath was the true creation sabbath, and that the Saturday sabbath had no basis in Scripture, either in the Old Testament or in the New. . . . Christ rose from the dead on Sunday, creation sabbath. He sustained the identity of Sunday with the seventh day of the week, by many lines of argument, using the chart.”
As to our own work: we have sold a number of books, have done all the house-to-house work we could, and have given a good many Bible readings and talks, distributed all the reading-matter we have in the form of tracts and papers; but only a few seem really interested, and none have taken their stand for the truth.
If any readers of this have any tracts, papers, or books that might be a help to those not of our faith, we shall be very glad to receive them. ALVA A. AND MRS. STEWART.