KENTUCKY by J. T. Crockett

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 3, 1879

KENTUCKY

By J. T. Crockett

Mt. Salem, Lincoln Co.—Since the middle of January I have been lecturing here every other Sabbath and Sunday, and sometimes oftener. The next week after I began to lecture here, Mr. N. B. Hamblin, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, offered some opposition on the subject of the immortality of the soul. He next commenced to ridicule the idea of the seventh-day Sabbath. Mr. H. continued to attend my meetings, and for a while opposed the truth very bitterly; but he soon acknowledged that he was on “new ground.” He held to the seventh part-of-time theory, and advanced no new arguments at all. I have only heard of one person agreeing with him.

After Mr. Hamblin left, Mr. Linthicum, a Baptist, the superintendent of the Sunday-school here, took up the opposition side, and said he differed from both views which were presented. He said he was a “Protestant;” he “protested against the law of Moses.” He was not under the law; all the commandments were abolished, and in their stead Christ gave two commands, viz. to love God and to love our neighbor, so the Sabbath commandment was gone.

I replied by calling attention to the two laws, showing their differences, then showing how Christ and the apostles taught the perpetuity of the ten commandments. I then read 1 John 2:3, 4, simply remarking that I did not wish to be of the class there spoken of, who “keep not his commandments.”

Thus far the truth has gained the victory. To the Lord be all the praise. Last Sunday, two expressed themselves (by rising to their feet) fully convinced that the seventh day is the Sabbath. Twelve others (in the same manner) expressed themselves not fully satisfied, but investigating. Pray for us here, that the Lord may work mightily, convincing and converting.

J. T. CROCKETT.