Sabbath Reform and Sunday Laws
By Editor
The article, “Sabbath Reform and Sunday Laws,” plainly states some of the great truths of the Sabbath question. It is truly gratifying that such an article should be permitted in the Independent, to go before its scores of thousands of readers. Some of them will remember its statements in the coming contest. The article following, “Is it a Perversion?” was called out on this wise: A book by Wm. Sheldon, was recently published at the Voice of the West office, entitled “Adventism, What is it?” A large portion of this work is occupied in a presentation of the doctrine of the unconsciousness of the dead, and the destruction of the wicked. Upon this the Advent Herald offered a severe, but just and candid criticism, showing the bigoted and partial nature of the work, inasmuch as it totally ignored other bodies of Adventists who do not hold many of the views set forth in that work as Adventism. Thus those Adventists who still adhere to the teachings of the Advent Herald, have never embraced what is called the Life and Death Question. Seventh-day Adventists, and others, have no sympathy with any present definite time &c., &c. In a seven-column article the Voice denounced the Herald's criticism as a perversion, and this called out the present article, which speaks for itself. We need only add that it is instructive to watch the course of such determined opponents of the Sabbath movement, as the late Joseph Marsh, and the present editor of the Voice of the West.