p. 136 | A Serious Suggestion

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1875

A Serious Suggestion.

UNDER this head the Detroit Evening News gives from one of its correspondents the following suggestion. Who can account for it?

“As the Sabbath question is just now in order, will you allow a stranger-visitor to your beautiful city to say a few words in your columns? There should be a Sabbath of rest for man and beast, where should be no labor but of mercy or necessity. Such a Sabbath would be just, expedient, and unspeakably beneficial to all. That day should be Saturday—when Christian and Jew could worship simultaneously; nor can the Christian give one solitary reason against such a change. By Bible authority God appointed that day—gave the reason therefor, and specified the manner thereof. Christians have themselves set the example of trampling upon the decalogue. This has begotten disrespect toward them among the masses. Let them unite in a petition to the legislature for such an act, to wit: A law making Saturday a Sabbath of rest to man and beast, it would speedily be enacted, and it would be the highest and holiest day ever registered in an American calendar. There are good people in all nationalities, and the reasonableness of such a law would command their respect and observance; and where there is harmony among the good, there need be no fear of the bad. ”