“WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?”
By Chas. L. Boyd
“The night is far spent.” Its darkest hour may be just before us, but “the day is at hand.” The following article, copied from the Christian Cynosure (Chicago), shows that the leaders of those whom we would expect to be the very last to walk the seductive path which leads to the image of the beast, are themselves stepping in and paving the way for their followers. What next? “All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life.” CHAS. L. BOYD. “The Sabbath question is taking an interesting prominence among the Jewish congregations of the country. Rabbi Koehler of Chicago, who is soon to remove to New York to take charge of the synagogue, Beth El, is understood to favor innovations upon the traditions of the elders in respect to services upon the first instead of the seventh day of the week. At the sixth council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations held in New York a fortnight since, a resolution was adopted declaring that the means of obtaining a stricter observance of the seventh day Sabbath were beyond their reach; and a motion to define the Sabbath as the seventh day of the week was lost. This giving way of the formalities of centuries in favor of Christianity is a movement which must fill every Christian heart with the hope that not only may Christ’s day, but his person and sacrifice also, be accepted by the descendants of those who slew him.”