God Blesses His Truth

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1868

God Blesses His Truth.

THE following note, just received from a lady in New Jersey, will be interesting to our readers. It shows that God is blessing his truth, and the importance also of scattering, with a liberal hand, the publications which set forth the reasons of our faith.

A. W. A.

MR. J. M. ALDRICH: Dear Sir, Providentially, as I believe, one of the little “Rays of light” sent out by your Publishing Association, was wafted to my notice. My attention was arrested by the title, “Which Day do You Keep, and Why?” I read it carefully, and examined all the texts of Scripture quoted, feeling that it was a ray of light, indeed, and that God had sent it to me.

For three or four years I have been seeking earnestly and prayerfully for truth, during which time I have learned much that is very precious to me; and the glorious doctrine of the speedy coming of our blessed Lord, is among the cherished hopes that now rejoice my heart. I know of but few in this place who profess to “love His appearing,” but hope and pray that the good seed scattered by the few will yet spring up and bear fruit to the glory of God.

I am thirsting for the good things you are publishing. Please send me a catalogue, and a copy of the ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD. Should like to learn at what period in the Christian era Sunday took the day God blessed and sanctified in the beginning. Oh! why do Christians thus hide the light of the Holy Scriptures? G. M. D.

NOTE. The elevation of Sunday into the place of the Sabbath, was a gradual work. The first law for Sunday-keeping was the edict of Constantine, in A. D. 321, enforcing it as a heathen festival. When Constantine, two years later, professed Christianity, this edict was left unrepealed, and Sylvester, then bishop of Rome, with the shrewdness which has ever since characterized the popes, availed himself of that law of the empire, to enforce Sunday upon the church as a Christian institution. For a full history of this matter, and other points of interest, see History of the Sabbath by J. N. Andrews.—ED.