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The Clock-face Folly

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 8, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 7.

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The Clock-face Folly.

A BROTHER writes from Mower Co., Minn., that there are some there who think that the dial-plates of our clocks should be turned around so as to bring the figure 12 at the bottom and 6 at the top to correspond with the ancient Hebrew method of reckoning the hours, and also that the modern names of the days of the week should be discarded; and that if we do not make these changes we have the mark of the beast. Those that are urging these views, he writes, are some that have been turned out of the S. D. A. church for apostasy, and others that have taken up with the Brinkerhoff faction in Iowa. These are just the persons who we should suppose would go into such foolishness. The theory and the people are well mated. Do not disturb them.