MINNESOTA by H. F. Phelps

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1877

MINNESOTA

By H. F. Phelps

Two discourses have been given against our positions on the immortality and Sabbath questions. We have reviewed the first. The speaker several times declared that the apostles changed the Sabbath, and also that Christ told them to do so; and in proof he said, “We are told that Christ said many things which were not written, and without doubt this was one of them.” As is usual, he said that the Lord’s day of Rev. 1. 10 was the first day; and then he tried to draw an argument from the messages to the seven churches then in Asia. He spoke of the different sins for which they were reproved, and with much emphasis said, “If Sunday-keeping was such a great sin, why were they not reproved for keeping it?” We can reply, For the simple reason that they were not keeping it. Those who have made a start seemed more than convinced of the truth of our positions.

H. F. PHELPS.