To Correspondents by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 11, 1875

To Correspondents.

By Uriah Smith

J. C. CLEMENS: The best light we have on Revelation 17, will be found in the discussion of that chapter in Thoughts on Revelation.

F. KINGSLEY: For an explanation of the cases of Moses and Elias, see Man's Nature and Destiny, pp. 137–148. We believe the Evangelists wrote as the Spirit of God brought things to their remembrance. John 14:26. The common translation of the Scriptures is derived directly from Tyndale's, but is now preferable to his because more in accordance with the present development of the language. Booksellers can procure Tyndale's for you.

J. C. N.: We do not understand Bro. Canright in his Morality of the Sabbath to advocate such exhausting labor during the six days as to unfit men for Sabbath observance. But that does not invalidate his argument for the necessity of an entire relaxation from secular affairs one day in seven. We send your communication to him.

ARTICLES DECLINED. Who Knows? poetry; is faulty in accent and measure.—The Law and the Testimony. This is a subject so much dwelt upon that it requires to be handled with special ability to be of interest.—Sin. This is too extensive a theme to be treated in a general manner in one short article.

ARTICLES ACCEPTED. The Nature and Object of Future Punishment.—Thy Kingdom Come.

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