These Are Not Arguments Nor Evidence.
Mr. Henry Varley has written a pamphlet on “The Seventh-day Adventists and Sabbath Observance,” which abounds with such terms and expressions as these: “Foolish assertions and false statements made by Seventh-day Adventists,” “this miserable delusion of Jewish Sabbath-keeping,” “this Seventh-day Adventist delusion,” “this fanatical heresy,” “this mischievous modern delusion,” “ignorance on the part of their leaders,” “their want of intelligence touching the spiritual meaning of God’s Word,” “Judaized bondage,” “their fanatical delusion is mere assertion and empty sound,” “mischievous propaganda,” “their own erratic system,” “fanatical impertinence,” “a miserable travesty of Sabbath-keeping,” and so on in dreary monotony. Perhaps it is not necessary to say to the zealous writer that these repetitions and declarations even from so great a man are neither argument nor evidence. God’s holy law and the example of Christ Jesus ought to be worth more to every Christian than even Mr. Varley’s ipse dixit.