ILLINOIS by R. F. Andrews

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1878

ILLINOIS

By R. F. Andrews

Belvidere, Sept. 24.

We resumed our meetings here Sabbath, Sept. 7. The battle is raging fiercely, and the truth is steadily gaining. A Presbyterian minister has preached three discourses on the Sabbath question since I returned. He argued the existence of the Sabbath in Eden, and that it was made for the race; but he denied the necessity of keeping the seventh day in order to obey the law. He said “God commanded us to keep the Sabbath, not the seventh day,” and “God did not bless the seventh day, but the Sabbath;” thus he flatly contradicted Gen. 2: 3, and the fourth commandment, as well as the answer to the sixty-second question of the shorter catechism of the Westminster Assembly, which is considered such high authority among his people. But God has “made the wrath of man to praise him,” and the remainder he has restrained. The more the truth is rubbed, the brighter it shines.

Those who have taken their stand for the truth are growing stronger, and others are becoming interested. We have taken down our tent, and put it away in good condition. The Universalists have given us the privilege of using their comfortable meeting-house, for which we are truly grateful. We are of good courage; for the Lord is very gracious. Praise his holy name for his mercy and his truth.

R. F. ANDREWS.