Inference vs. the Commandment.
By Editor
A FRIEND in a distant State, acknowledging the receipt of our paper, sent to him by some friend of his, takes occasion to say:— "I differ with your views of the Sabbath. Though Paul, Peter, John, James, Jude, and at least three of the Evangelists wrote to heathen, who, we suppose, knew nothing of the Sabbath, we never find them in one single place enjoining its observance. I believe our heavenly Father has given us one seventh portion of time for rest; one day taken out of the curse in which we may eat bread without the sweat of our face." We regret our friend's oversight. He did not tell us just where Paul, Peter, John, James, Jude, or the Evangelists said that our heavenly Father has given us one-seventh portion of time for rest! We notice this, because there are so many who advance the same idea who rest it upon what they would not at all accept as evidence in favor of the Sabbath. The truth is that they infer this "one-seventh portion of time" gift from the very Scriptures which plainly command us to keep the seventh day as the Sabbath of the Lord our God. But they will not keep the day commanded by Jehovah because the disciples of the Lord did not repeat the commandment! but they will urge the "seventh part of time" theory, though neither the Lord nor any of his inspired servants ever made mention of any such thing. Under such circumstances it is not strange that this unmentioned seventh part of time always falls on a day made popular by tradition and the statutes of men. We recommend all who are led by such unscriptural ideas to carefully read Eze. 13.