PERVERTED TASTES by D. A. Robinson

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 2, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 9.

PERVERTED TASTES.

By D. A. Robinson

We often hear persons claim that certain articles which they happen to be indulging in are not hurtful because they taste good. Thus it is with the rum-drinker, tobacco-user; opium-eater and snuff-taker. We say of such that their taste is no criterion, because it is perverted.

But the greatest perversion of taste that I have ever heard of is that which brings taste into theological arguments. A certain D. D. being asked by one of his parishoners for his strongest proof texts to sustain the keeping of the first day of the week replied, “We cannot see the proof [a very frank admission], yet it is all through the Bible like salt in a stew. It tastes all right although we can’t see it.” This argument ought to be regarded as valuable; for certainly it will not spoil. That taste must be very badly perverted that imagines it can taste first-day Sabbath in the Bible, because there isn’t even a sprinkling of it there, and the man who claims to even taste it is simply mistaken. His taste is no guide. Such a vitiated taste needs correcting. The seventh day was the Sabbath, because God worked six days, rested the seventh, and then set it apart for man to keep holy. These are the reasons why it became the Sabbath. These are the facts upon which it is based. These are the reasons why the seventh day is the Sabbath now. It is just as true to-day that God rested on the seventh day and set it apart for man’s rest as it was five thousand years ago. And so long as these facts remain true the seventh day will be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.

D. A. ROBINSON.