Mormon Evidence for Sunday-Keeping

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 31, 1871

Mormon Evidence for Sunday-Keeping.

IN No. 13, present volume of REVIEW, in the article entitled, “Found at Last,” Bro. Canright spoke of the claim put forth by a Mormon elder that in 1831, Joseph Smith had a revelation that Sunday should be regarded as a holy day. We have since received letters from two Mormons denying that any such revelation was ever given. We referred the matter to Bro. Canright, who returns the following response:—

“I know little, and care less, about what revelation Joe Smith has given about the Sunday Sabbath. I simply stated what a Mormon preacher publicly said before a hundred persons in Leon, Iowa, while we were there. Eld. Butler, Eld. Kilgore, and scores of others, heard the statement. If he told a falsehood to meet the emergency of the time, those who deny his statement must settle that with him. I care nothing about it one way or the other, only so far as I stated the fact that he said so. This I can easily prove.” U. S.