A New Cavil by R. F. Andrews

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1872

A New Cavil.

By R. F. Andrews

A new evasion to the claims of the Sabbath! The reader would like to know, doubtless, what it is. It is this: To boldly deny that the Sabbath precept is included in the ten commandments, and affirm stoutly that there are ten commandments without it! But you ask how can this be made to appear? I will tell you how a determined opposer undertook this job while we were at Aledo with the tent this summer. He said:—

“Now, to show you that the Sabbath is no part of the ten commandments, we will quote them.”

He quoted the first commandment just as it is; divided the second, making the second and third out of it; called the third the fourth; expunged the fourth from the law entirely, declaring it was “no more a part of the law than circumcision was a part of the promise which Abraham received.” The remaining six came right of course.

The difference between this and the work of the papacy against God’s law is, they expunged the second, changed the fourth, and divided the tenth commandment, while this adversary to the law divides the second, and entirely destroys the fourth command. All that the profane swearer, thief, adulterer,

or murderer, would have to do, according to the above plan, would be to deny the command forbidding his sin a place in the decalogue, and in its stead accept the fourth precept. He would then have ten commandments just as genuine as this opposer to the Sabbath has.

How men do rack their brains to get rid of the Lord’s Sabbath. “God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” R. F. ANDREWS.

Pleasant Green, Ill., Aug. 26, 1872.