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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1878

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Some queries have come in containing no signatures, and can consequently receive no attention.

A correspondent from Ohio asks if it is any worse for the sisters to wear gold breast pins and other ornaments than for the brethren to wear gold studs and sleeve buttons. Evidently not. The query continues: “I never see brethren carry out the instruction of 1 Cor. 16:20, while the sisters practice it without any requirement.” Answer. The directions given to “one another,” must include all the church; and we consider the act there mentioned one intended to signify especially our union and fellowship with one another. This would suggest it to be an appropriate act on the occasion of the ordinances, and as such it is generally practiced in connection with the ordinance of John 13, and like that, brethren with brethren and sisters with sisters.

J. M. Hopkins: The expression in Lev. 23: 32, although spoken of the atonement sabbath on the 10th day of the 7th month, is good testimony as regards the time when the day began; for if that day did not begin and end with the “even” then it was not the “tenth day” of the month, but a part of two days, as, for instance, a part of the ninth day and a part of the tenth. The beginning and end of one day, whatever that day may be, determines all the rest.—The expression in Matt. 28: 1, “In the end of the Sabbath,” means “after the Sabbath was past.” See Robinson’s Greek Lexicon, where this sense is given to the word rendered “end” in our version. It thus harmonizes with Mark, who says plainly, “And when the Sabbath was past.”—In regard to the testimony of Matthew, Mark, and Luke respecting the angels seen at the time of Christ’s resurrection, we suppose there were different angels seen in different places and attitudes by those who visited the place and sepulcher.—The Saviour, was crucified about the “third hour.” The light part of the day, and the dark part, or the night were divided into twelve hours each, making twenty-four hours in the entire day. The “third hour” of the light part would answer exactly to our 9 o’clock A. M., when the sun rose and set at six, and would not vary far from it at any season in Palestine.

We have an excellent paper for children, the YOUTH’S INSTRUCTOR, a sample copy of which we send you.

ANSWERED BY LETTER. H. D. Clark, W. C. Emerson, E. W. Helm, W. H. Hall, W. H. Littlejohn, S. B. Goodrich, J. M. Ferguson, S. K. Foster, J. H. Waggoner, H. A. St. John, P. M. Hill, J. W. Lesan, A. J. Cudney, J. P. Davis, M. L. Rossvalley, G. S. Honeywell, C. H. Howe, D. R. Palmer, F. O. Newcomb.