p. 127 | TENNESSEE by P. D. Moyers

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 18, 1878

TENNESSEE

By P. D. Moyers

I have been visiting the little companies that Bro. O. Soule brought out near Pikeville. They move very slowly and need more of the grace of God to help them overcome. I have distributed tracts and THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES in several counties. Find many warm-hearted friends that are favorable to the truth. I have spoken from two to three times a week to attentive hearers, and have more calls than I can fill.

I lately visited Grassy Cove, where I delivered three discourses on the subject of the law and Sabbath. I was opposed by a Methodist minister, who claimed to be a Greek scholar. He admitted the perpetuity of the law of God, but claimed that the Sabbath had been changed from the seventh to the first day of the week, and that the “Sunday Sabbath” is now protected and enforced by the fourth commandment. For evidence he referred to Matt. 28:1, rendering it thus: “In the end of the Sabbath [Jewish Sabbath], as it began to dawn toward the first day of the first Sabbath [Christian Sabbath], came Mary,” etc. I showed that his rendering did violence to the Scriptures, [and it might be added, to the Greek also.—Ed.] and that no change could be made after the new testament (covenant) was confirmed by the death of the Testator. Gal. 3:15; Heb. 9:17.

I know what it is to be shut out of meeting-houses and to be forsaken by parents, brothers, sisters, and friends for the truth’s sake; but I take it all to the Lord in prayer. “‘Tis sweet to work for Jesus.” He bore the cross for me. Brethren, pray for the precious truth here, and for me.

P. D. MOYERS.