“The Latest on the Sabbath Question.”
By Uriah Smith
A FRIEND in Ohio sends us a line narrating the following circumstance: An Adventist from the West lately moved into his neighborhood, and handed him some tracts on the Sabbath question. He became interested, and his wife, a church member, being alarmed at his loss of faith in the claims of Sunday, appealed to a prominent member of the church for help. The learned member immediately responded that he could easily put a quietus on the whole Sabbath controversy. “For,” said he, “the seventh-day Sabbath is an impossibility, because the earth revolves on its axis!” We judge from our friend’s letter that this argument looks as ludicrous to him, as it does to us. He suggests that it be called a “clinching argument,” or, “the last on the Sabbath question.” It may be the last in that locality; but as an objection to the Sabbath it is not new. Since the claims of the Sabbath have been especially urged of late years, necessity, that prolific mother of invention, has given birth to every conceivable objection, and this member of that deformed family was born many years ago. Bro. Andrew’s tract entitled “The Definite Seventh Day,” fully answers all objections based on difference of latitude and longitude, and vindicates from the charge of short-sightedness and folly, the act of God in giving the Sabbath to the inhabitants of a round and revolving world.