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Debate Leads Opponent to Study the Sabbath

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 15, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 24.

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Debate Leads Opponent to Study the Sabbath

WHILE public debates upon the different points of this message are not encouraged by our people, it sometimes appears necessary to accept an invitation to such discussions. Such a situation was found recently at Franklin Centre, Ontario, where Elder William Guthrie stood for the truths held by Seventh-day Adventists. The debate continued two evenings, occupying over five hours in all. The point of interest is in the effect which the debate produced upon Brother Guthrie’s opponent, who, after the more than five hours’ discussion, admitted on the following day, according to the Canadian Union Messenger, that “we could not do without a decalogue, if the old one was done away we would need another; that Sunday could not be in the new covenant; and that the seventh day, corresponding to our Saturday, was the day of rest from creation down.” He has promised to study still further the question of the right Sabbath.