We Would See It by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 28, 1883

We Would See It.

By Editor

WE have no disposition to interfere in any controversy between the Christian Advocate and the Christian Herald, Disciple, of Oregon, but we have a request to make of the Herald. In its indictment of the M. E. Church it says:—

"In this church the Lord’s table is set quarterly, whereas the scriptures require it weekly."

We have no little anxiety to learn where in the Scriptures that requirement may be found. The Herald makes a strong profession of strictly conforming to the Scriptures, and we are certain that we wish to do so. Now we will conform to that particular scripture of which it speaks as soon as we are informed where it is.

Prof. McGarvey is a man highly esteemed among the Disciples as a teacher, a preacher, and an author. In his "Commentary on the Acts" he says:—

"It must, in candor, be admitted that there is no express statement in the N. T. that the disciples broke the loaf every Lord’s day."

Now as there is no commandment that they should do so, and no express statement that they did so, that is, there being neither precept nor precedent, how is it to be known that "the Scriptures require it?" We wait for an answer.