THE BEST WAY THEY HAVE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 2.

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THE BEST WAY THEY HAVE.

A WRITER in the N. Y. Weekly Express, of Nov. 30, 1877, suggests the following plan to bring all into harmony on the day of the Sabbath:—
“In order to bring about complete harmony among the sects in regard to the day to be observed as Sunday, it is proposed to send the most influential ministers and elders of the Seventh-day Baptists around the world to the westward, furnishing each one with a printed diary, and arranging with the captain of the ship not to make the usual change in the calendar in the Pacific. When the delegates keep their first Sabbath on returning home, they will find themselves going to church with their neighbors, and all will be serene.”
This plan would be very nice, if it was sure to work as the inventor thereof designed. But it is just possible that the S. D. Baptist elders might know enough themselves to change their calendar as they crossed the day line. If not, perhaps those who remained at home would think they had kept just as good reckoning as the few who had been around the world, and would not be so ready to change their reckoning at the suggestion of these few, however “influential” they might be.
Such suggestions, designed, of course, as mere pleasantries, are, nevertheless, a confession that they have nothing better to offer. If they could disprove the position of the observers of the seventh day by the Bible, they certainly would do it. As they tacitly confess that they cannot, would it not be a much better way, both to bring about harmony and conserve their own eternal interests, to bring themselves into harmony with the truth, by joining the few who are keeping the seventh day, and are thus standing upon the sure foundation of the Bible?