Is the Sabbath Question a Dead Issue?
The following extract will answer the question: “We sometimes think that the Pilgrim Fathers were too severe in their legislation against immorality. There was a law in the colonial statutes of New England that for flagrant violation of the Sabbath the offender was to be hanged. We may say this was wrong; but let me ask, Were they nearer or farther from the moral law as interpreted by the Mosaic legislation than we are? Under the Mosaic law, a man guilty of idolatry and Sabbath-breaking was to be executed, and I apprehend that we ought to return to that order of things to-day, and execute the penalty for the violation of the moral law.” After reading this most extraordinary statement, which was made at the National Reform convention recently held in one of our Eastern States, no one will consider for a moment that the Sabbath question is a dead issue. The question may arise, Which is the Sabbath, the first or the seventh day of the week? An honest delineation of the Sabbath is found in Andrews’s “History of the Sabbath.” This book should be studied by every careful and candid student of the Scriptures. If you are not already in possession of a copy of the work, you should secure it at once. Contains 548 pages, table of contents, appendix to authors quoted, index to scriptures cited and subjects referred to. In pamphlet, three parts, in sets.......................... $ .75 Cloth, sprinkled edges....................................... 1.50 Half morocco, gilt edges.................................... 3.24 Address your tract society, or the — REVIEW AND HERALD PUB. CO.,
Battle Creek, Mich.