The Second-day Adventists
By Editor
THE San Francisco Chronicle is a good newspaper. It also occasionally furnishes very able and just editorial comments on current events. But when it takes occasion to quote from the Bible, or to make mention of religion or religious bodies, it shows a remarkable lack of acquaintance with its subject. A few days ago it spoke of the man who "gave thanks that he was not like this Pharisee." Still later it contained an account of an Æolian lyre which a musician had placed on top of his house, and whose weird music had startled some of the neighbors who did not know its source. Said the truthful(?) reporter:— "The Spiritualists, and there are quite a number in the neighborhood, asserted that it emanated from denizens of the spirit world, who were thus trying to communicate with their friends who were still in this mundane sphere; while the Second-day Adventists as strongly contended that they were angel voices heralding the second coming of the Messiah." We are anxious to learn more about that new sect, the "Second-day Adventists." Adventists are those who profess to believe that the Lord is soon coming; First-day Adventists are Adventists who observe the first day of the week, and Seventh-day Adventists are Adventists who observe the seventh day of the week, according to the commandment; and "Second-day Adventists" are of course those who observe the second day of the week. But we have never met any who kept Monday, and we think the sect must be very small. We also sadly fear that the "lyre" on that musician's house is not the only one in San Francisco.