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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1884

A Good Answer

By Editor

By a card from Bro. James Sawyer we learn that a Free Reading Room has been opened at the mission in Chicago, 215 West Madison Street, room 2, second floor.

A Good Answer.

WE commend to the careful reading of every one, the article in this paper by our corresponding Editor, entitled "That Sunday Blessing," which we copy from the Review and Herald. It contains important truths, well and clearly stated. The supposed argument of those who claim a warrant for keeping Sunday on the fact that God has blessed them while they kept it, will apply with equal force to any practice professedly pious. The Romanist may use it to justify every practice of the Church. To show how far people, religious people, do sometimes carry this excuse, we relate the following, which occurred in one of the Eastern States. A local preacher or exhorter told us that he knew it was right and pleasing to God to use tobacco. Upon our inquiring how he knew it, he answered, "Because God sanctified me while I was using it, and he would not have done so if it was displeasing to him!" When a man has gone as far as that in deception there is no use to quote the Bible to him. He is his own standard, and the word of God has ceased to be a rule of life to him. And every one who urges God's blessing as a warrant for an unscriptural practice is in danger of falling into deception as great as that.