The Sabbath Question at Placerville
By B. A. Stephens
WE are in the midst of the Sabbath question. The people are investigating slowly. Eighteen lectures have been given. To-night eighty-three voted that Saturday is the Sabbath. Some of them being among the most prominent men of the town. Next Sabbath they will have opportunity to obey. We feel that the next few weeks will be of special anxiety and toil, and desire the prayers of all, that God will raise up witnesses to his truth here. Mining for gold is the principal occupation of the people. When the question was presented before them, Which day is the Sabbath? we asked all who had been working on the "Sabbath mine," and had gone down to "bed-rock," and found good "color" there, or plenty of pure gold, to arise. Then we called for all who were working on the "Sunday mine," who had found "color," to arise. A gentleman arose. We asked him where his authority was in the Bible for keeping the first day of the week, when he replied that he would have to search his Bible more. His trouble was that he had been working over on the "papal ledge," and gathering mica for gold. May God help us all to obtain the pure gold that will abide the trial of fire, Rev. 3:21, and will give us an entrance into that city whose very streets are paved with that precious metal. July 21, 1878. B. A. STEPHENS.