Where Is the Confusion.
By Uriah Smith
In the July number of the Bible Banner, under the heading, “Confusion of Days about the Sabbath Observance,” I. K. Lombard answers a correspondent respecting a change of the day in circumnavigating the earth. It is the old question in reference to a man's keeping pace with the sun around the world. In the present case the question is, If a man commences to travel west Friday noon, and keeps pace with the sun, where would he first be told that it was Sabbath? Eld. L. then expatiates largely on the difficulty and facetiously argues that a Sunday-keeper and a Sabbath-keeper, by traveling in different directions, would find themselves on the opposite side of the globe keeping the same identical day, and yet each one enjoying his preference for his favorite day. Evidently neither Mr. L. nor the correspondent whom he attempts to answer, ever read the little work, “The Definite Seventh Day,” by Eld. J. N. Andrews, published at this Office, in which, years ago, this question of the definite day on a round world was demonstrably settled in a scientific manner. The “confusion of days about the Sabbath observance,” does not exist in the nature of the subject, nor in any necessary practical application of it, but only in the minds of those who have not thought, or studied, to the bottom of the supposed difficulty.