LET US HAVE PEACE by Dudley Marvin Canright

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 15.

"LET US HAVE PEACE."

By Dudley Marvin Canright

ALAS! how shall we survive! The Firebrand with borrowed fire launches at us a five-column, nonpareil-slugged, pica article, with display head-lines as follows: "Seventh Dayism;" "The Folly of Worshiping a Day;" "A Well-timed Argument;" etc. It is copied from the Earnest Christian, written by one Rev. B. T. Roberts. The opening words well apply to the article in question, "Never was zeal so misdirected." The article presents no new argument. It contradicts itself in saying that the commandment does not require the seventh day of the week, and then says that "the reason for selecting the seventh day in preference to the fifth or sixth" is because "the Lord rested from the creation on the seventh day." Certainly the Lord rested on a definite day, and that day was the seventh day of the week; for the very next day was "the first day of the week." Luke 23:56; 24:1. The main proof is based on the "Fathers," from whom every error that ever disgraced Christianity can be proved. These "fathers" are among those who should "enter in privily not sparing the flock, speaking perverse things, and drawing away disciples after them." Acts 20:29, 30. The very fact that a Protestant will resort to the "Fathers" to prove Sunday sacredness is clear evidence that they have no Bible proof, and that they themselves are conscious of the fact.

On the same page as the above article, in bold-faced, two-line English, the Firebrand has the following: "We build our hopes on God's immutable promises." We cannot help querying if it is by treading under foot God's immutable precepts. They quote John 15:7: "If ye abide in me and my words abide in you." Does this mean only those words of Christ that please the Firebrand? Does it mean that the words of the immutable fourth precept are excluded? The argument concludes with, "Let us have peace." Is it peace with God which they desire? "Great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall offend them." Ps. 119:165. But to the wicked, the transgressor of God's law, "there is no peace." Isa. 57:21. M. C. W.