San Jose, Cal by W. M. Healey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Oct 25, 1883

San Jose, Cal.

By W. M. Healey

SINCE camp-meeting we have remained in this place to follow up the work. Three have signed the covenant and four have been baptized, and others have commenced to keep the commandments of God. There has been more open opposition to our work than previously manifested. Many positions have been taken on the Sabbath question, but I am of the opinion that about the most pleasing to many is that taken by a minister here. In substance it was this: There is not the least authority for Sunday-keeping in the Scriptures; but Christ spoke peace to the disciples on that day, and we meet on that day to have peace and enjoy our worship. Many congregations dislike to have their ministers try to prove that the Bible enjoins Sunday as a sacred day for worship, for they well know it does not; and they feel that he is only presuming upon their ignorance. But let him tell them, "The Bible does not require it, but others have kept it, and we want to," and they know he is teaching a truth, and they enjoy it, although it may lull them to sleep, and prove their eternal ruin.

W. M. HEALEY.

October 19, 1883.