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The Puzzled Preacher

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 22, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 12.

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The Puzzled Preacher.

By A. S. Hutchins

A LADY commenced the observance of the Bible Sabbath. Her husband was a professional man, and he felt a strong objection to her taking this step. He requested a young minister to talk with his companion and show her the mistake under which she was laboring. In order to be fully prepared for the talk, he went ten miles to receive help on the point from an old minister. And what must have been the surprise and regret of the young theologian to have the minister of long years’ study say to him, “There is no proof for Sunday-keeping in the Bible”? He returned home empty-handed with no word of instruction for the Sabbath-keeper.
The sister continues the observance of God’s rest-day. The minister keeps, and teaches, the first-day Sabbath; or at least, he says that within the last ten years he has preached one sermon in favor of the first-day, and yet said he, “I could not now tell what my proof was.” What would men say of Sabbatarians who could give no better reason for the seventh-day Sabbath? A. S. Hutchins.