Coming to the Front

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

Coming to the Front.

THERE are some indications that the Sabbath question is destined to come to the front as one of the leading aspects of the great question of religion and the State. The action of the Southern Presbyterian Assembly, the work which will be steadily maintained in this city and State, the efforts of the International Sabbath Association to reduce to the lowest point the amount of railway and postal service, the action of other Sabbath-protecting societies like the Sabbath Committee of New York, will almost certainly maintain and extend the interest which has been awakened. Probably, before long, we shall be ready for a National Convention or Conference, and perhaps for a national organization to secure uniform action on this subject in all the States. The old controversy over the Sabbath-mails is almost certain to be revived, and when it is, the Christian people of the land will not submit to an insulting and erroneous decision as quietly as they did fifty years ago.—Christian Statesman, June 27, 1878.

A new word which gives its name to a modern pious lunacy is “Pyramidology.” The same unhealthy curiosity which makes an ignorant skeptic fool with “mediums” and “seances” sets the credulous believer to searching for revelations of history and prophecy in the Pyramid of Cheops, or for an accurate chronology of the Lord’s coming in the Holy Scriptures. We say to our readers, if they are asked to count pyramid inches and to measure in pyramid galleries the ages from the creation of the world to the coming of Christ, or from his coming to the consummation of all things, that even to consider the subject is a perversion of the good sense which we trust their Maker has given them.—Independent.