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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 22, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 12.

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Delaware

By O. O. Farnsworth

WILMINGTON.—The Lord has greatly blessed in the work here in behalf of the church. First of all, the church has received a spiritual reviving. Some who had become almost discouraged have taken hold anew.
Soon after coming here five united with the church. Others then began to take their stand for the truth, until twenty-three have thus given themselves to the Lord. Of these, eighteen have united with the church, and one will unite with the Philadelphia church. We trust there will be others ready for baptism soon. There are others who are deeply moved by the truth of God for whom we have strong hopes.
Some of the people of this city begin to see clearer than ever the coming conflict between truth and error. On last Sunday Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts delivered a sermon here in the Central Presbyterian church on the “Imperiled Sabbath” (meaning Sunday). His text was Rev. 1:10. He said this was the first time Sunday was mentioned in the Bible as the Lord’s day, but that it had been doubtless called that since the resurrection of Christ, and had come down to us from John in one unbroken chain. John was commanded to write on that day to the churches, and he wanted his hearers to translate the messages to the seven churches into English by sitting down that day and writing to the members of Congress in favor of the bill now before Congress in behalf of Sunday.
He said the Sabbath was made in Eden for all men, not the Jew alone. Christ kept the Sabbath and taught its observance till his crucifixion. The Sabbath was always a movable feast, and Christ slipped it over onto the first day of the week, which doubtless was the creation Sabbath, and by a legislative act he made the first day of the week the Sabbath. His last reason given for keeping the day was because it was a law of the state.
He said the Seventh-day Adventists would be the most bitter opposers of the bill. There was danger in it for them. They were circulating millions of pages of literature while we were scattering thousands.
I advertised in the papers that I would review him on Tuesday night, speaking on Religious Liberty. It being a very stormy night, not many came out. But the Lord is working for us here, and seventeen have begun to keep the Sabbath.
O. O. FARNSWORTH.