CONFUSION by D. T. Biggs

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1879

CONFUSION

By D. T. Biggs

WHILE doing tract and missionary work among the Russians, I came in contact with a minister of the Evangelical Association (German). On offering him our publications, he said he had read them all, and studied them carefully, and he was satisfied that we were wrong on the Sabbath question. I tried to have him set me right, which he attempted to do, taking the following positions during less than one hour: 1. The old seventh-part-of-time theory; 2. We cannot tell which is the seventh day; 3. Christ changed the Sabbath to the first day of the week, and by example taught his disciples to keep the first day; 4. We cannot keep the Sabbath on the round world; 5. The first day must have been kept by the early Christians, or Constantine (a heathen emperor), would not have legislated in its favor; 6. Finally, the Sabbath was not a test, because Christ broke it.

All the above positions he actually took one after another; and had he not “had to leave,” I presume he would have found more. Truly they are like “foxes of the desert.” Let us thank God that “present truth” does not need any such contradictions and inconsistencies to uphold it. D. T. BIGGS.

Howard, D. T., Jan. 19.