A Testimony on the Sabbath Question.
The late D. T. Taylor, for many years one of the prominent ministers in the Life and Advent Union, was at one time very much agitated over the Sabbath question. Being himself an observer of Sunday, and a firm believer in its sacredness, “he thought to write a history in its favor,” writes his aged brother, himself a minister. “In order to do so he gathered all the works, far and near, in this country and England, that he could hear of, on the Sabbath, the first-day sabbath, Lord’s day, etc. He got together in all 412 different works of various authors. After he had gotten them all together, and studied them in order to write his book, he could find no evidence for the Sunday-sabbath, and gave the whole matter up. A few years after, when Elder Preble thought to write a history on the same subject, he came to my brother to get his help; but my brother told Mr. Preble that he could not help him, there was no help for him.” Mr. Taylor afterward took the position of “no Sabbath.”