A QUANDARY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1878

A QUANDARY.

We are thrown into a complete quandary by some things received at this Office touching the Sabbath question. The quandary is, whether a person cannot put forth efforts to overthrow the Sabbath without losing his good common sense, or whether it is only those that are in that condition who undertake to overthrow it.

For instance, we have received some papers called, “Borough’s Journal,” published in Black Hawk Co., Iowa, containing three lengthy articles against the seventh-day Sabbath. They contain no signature; but out of charity to the editor, we will not attribute them to his pen.

The article commences as follows:—

“Seventh-day Sabbath. Under the above head we propose to publish a series of articles in the Journal (commencing with the present number).” The date of this is Dec. 20, 1877.

The paper containing the second article was dated Jan. 3, 1878, and in this paper the article commences as follows: “Under the above head we propose to publish a series of articles in the Journal (commencing with the present number).”

The paper containing the third article was dated Jan. 10; and in that paper the article commences as follows: “Under the above head we propose to publish a series of articles (commencing with the present number).”

So it seems that down to the commencement of the third number, the writer was not sure whether he had begun at all or not; and the only conclusion we can come to after perusing the last article is, that he has not begun to prove what he set out to prove. We are sure that if ever he does produce a genuine argument against the Sabbath, he can truthfully say, “Commencing with the present number.”

So far as the articles thus far produced are concerned, they call for no reply. They show a very superficial examination of the subject, and are, in their reasoning, illogical and incoherent.