HOW IS IT? by E. R. Jones

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1878

HOW IS IT?

By E. R. Jones

CAN the law be abolished, completely done away, and then be changed? Frequently we find persons who stoutly maintain that the law is forever gone, irrecoverably perished, and then say it has been changed.

I recently read an article in the Christian Herald, in which the writer positively affirmed that the law was abolished, done away, taken out of the way; and then a few sentences further on he as positively declared that it had been changed. Now we ask, How can this be? It appears to me, if the law is wholly and forever gone, as some affirm, then there is nothing of it left to change; but if it is in that condition where it can be changed, then it is not abolished, as they say. Will our friends of the abolished-and-changed theory please rise and explain?

Of one thing we are deeply impressed,—that, while truth is plain, harmonious, and beautiful, error is inconsistent, contradictory, crooked, deformed, and ugly. E. R. JONES.