MORE ABSURDITIES by G. V. Kilgore

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1879

MORE ABSURDITIES.

By G. V. Kilgore

DURING my absence from Flint, Iowa, Eld. Cornell (Christian) preached eleven sermons on the law and gospel; but instead of injuring our cause he helped it; for every one I have talked with says he declared the law abolished and left them without any Sabbath. They all say that is too bad a doctrine to believe.

The following statements by Eld. C. were noted by a gentleman of this neighborhood: “If a man should attempt to hallow a day that God has not hallowed, it is not only presumption, but folly.” At another time he said: “We have a day [the first day] that is as far superior to the seventh day as Christ is superior to Moses.”

I have in my possession the above notes, and the following remarks which this gentleman wrote in reply. The only regret is that he did not address the audience in reply to Eld. C.; but he is a farmer, and not a minister.

His remarks are these: 1. “Moses was man; Christ is God, or equal with God. Then Christ’s superiority over Moses is infinite, and the superiority of the first day over the seventh is infinite.”

2. “Moses was not responsible for the Sabbath; God sanctified and blessed it, and in the hearing of all the people commanded it to be kept holy, and then wrote the command on a tablet of stone (that the hand writing of God might be proof of its divine authority).”

3. “We have no evidence that God blessed, sanctified, or hallowed the first day. He did not command it to be kept holy. Christ did not command it to be so kept. The apostles did not command it to be kept in any way different from the ordinary working days. Then when man attempts to hallow the first day of the week, he attempts to hallow what God has not hallowed; hence it is folly.”

4. “Conclusion: Man’s folly is infinitely superior to God’s wisdom.”

G. V. Kilgore.