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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 18.

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Saturday vs. Sunday.

By D. H. Lamson; E. R. Jones

In the East Saginaw (Mich.) Daily Courier, of a recent date, appeared the following, which speaks for itself:—
“EDITOR COURIER: In your issue of Saturday last we find the following:—
“‘An Advent speaker, now stopping at Flint, offers $500 to any man who can prove that Saturday is not the day to be observed, and that Sunday should not be observed as a day of worship. Mr. B. S. Driggs, of this city, is now arranging to meet the gentleman on the proposition.’
“In order that your readers may be correctly and fully informed as to the nature of the proposition referred to in your notice, we beg leave to place it before them through the columns of your paper.
“We have caused to be posted through the city of Flint two hundred of the following bills:—
“‘Five hundred dollars reward at the tent, Sunday afternoon, June 27, 1875, or at any subsequent meeting, for one text of Scripture which says that Sunday, or the first day of the week, should be regarded as a weekly Sabbath, or that laboring on that day is a sin.
“‘Five hundred dollars reward for one text of Scripture which says that any other day than the seventh day, or Saturday, should be regarded as a weekly Sabbath.
“‘Five hundred dollars reward for one text of Scripture which says that all mankind are not under obligation to keep the ten commandments. TENT ELDERS.’
“Also the following: Tradition or the Bible, which? The Romanist’s rule of faith is the Bible and tradition. The Protestant rule of faith is the Bible alone. Tradition says Sunday is the Sabbath—the first day of the week. The Bible says the seventh day is the Sabbath. Which shall we follow, the Bible or tradition? Five thousand dollars reward to any person, minister or layman, who will furnish one passage from the Bible which says the first day of the week should be regarded as a weekly Sabbath.
“We are prepared on our part, or may soon be, without unreasonable delay, to fulfill the conditions of the above. It will be borne in mind that we do not call for an essay on the Sabbath question, or a lengthy discussion of it, but simply for the text of Scripture, and we assure your readers that the person who brings it shall be honored with the above rewards, be it B. S. Driggs or any other individual. We have waited now for twenty days, and no response; we are waiting still. We shall remain here probably for at least a month, and will promise that any communication will be properly acknowledged, or visitor courteously received. It is time that these Sunday usurpations should have a ventilation, and the reason known why the only Sabbath of the Bible, the seventh day of the week, is so constantly disregarded.
“D. H. LAMSON, } Tent “E. R. JONES, } Elders.”