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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 23, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 10.

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Error Contradictory.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We have had an excellent illustration of this fact in Adel. As we brought out the evidences in favor of the seventh day, and exposed the Sunday argument, four different ministers came forward, each with his theory to support this darling institution.
The first was a Disciple minister. He said that there was no Sabbath day now, no holy time whatever under the gospel; that he did not regard Sunday any more sacred than any other day. In support of which he appealed to Romans 14: 5, 6.
The next that came forward was the Methodist minister. He said that the law was not abolished, that the seventh day was binding, only it was no definite day, only one seventh part of time, let that come where it might. He would as soon keep one day as another, provided that the people did; but he must have a Sabbath-day every week.
The third man that came forward was another, Disciple minister, preaching in the same church as his brother. He claimed that the law was all abolished, and that the seventh-day Sabbath ended at the crucifixion, but that another series of Sabbaths began on the day of Christ's resurrection, and that now the first day of the week is by Divine authority the Christian Sabbath; in proof of which he appealed to the Greek of Matt. 28:1. Thus they as brethren in the ministry, squarely contradicted each other.
The fourth, presenting his claim, was a Presbyterian minister. He claimed that the law was as binding now as ever, that the Sabbath was not abolished, but simply changed at the resurrection, from the seventh to the first day of the week, and that the first day of the week, and no other, is now the Sabbath enjoined in the fourth commandment.
Thus we have these four teachers of Adel, all agreeing in opposing the seventh-day Sabbath, and keeping the first day; but the arguments of each one by which they do this naturally contradict and tear down those of the other. On the other hand, all those who keep the Lord's Sabbath are perfectly united and harmonious in their arguments respecting it. This alone is a good indication where the truth lies. Truth is always harmonious, but error always contradictory.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
Adel, Iowa.