ROSSIE, N. Y by H. H. Wilcox

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 27, 1876

ROSSIE, N. Y.

By H. H. Wilcox

SINCE my last report, I have visited Rossie. I found the church there, in the main, firm, and the interest good. I learned, on reaching the place, that a Presbyterian minister had visited them and preached a discourse to prove a change of the Sabbath. This helped us; for he was a learned man, and the friends thought if there was any evidence to prove a change he would bring it forward. This he did not do; therefore, they were confirmed in the belief that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and one more has commenced to keep it.

He told them that Christ rose from the dead on the first day of the week, and that he had power to change the day; therefore he did change it. But they could not accept of simple assertions; for God has said, Ps. 89:34, “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” Again in verse 28, “My covenant shall stand fast with Him [Christ].” This covenant they understand to be the covenant which God commanded, or the ten moral precepts, of which the Sabbath is a part. One of the sins of which men in the last days will be guilty is covenant-breaking (2 Tim. 3:3), but God and his beloved Son are never thus guilty.

H. H. WILCOX.

Pitcairn, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., July 8.