Sabbath Prosecution in Sydney
By Editor
The following we clip from the Melbourne (Australia) Argus of May 8. It shows the world-wide agitation on the Sabbath question:— A curious prosecution was conducted to-day at Parramatta, when two men named Firth, who described themselves as Seventh-day Adventists, were charged under a statute of Charles II. with exercising their worldly labor on the Sabbath day. The defendants pleaded justification, owing to their religious convictions, and were fined 5s., or in default to be set publicly in the stocks for two hours. These brethren may be cheered by the words of the apostle, who, in speaking of the devil and his persecutions, says, " Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." The pillory may preach the gospel as well as the stake or the cross. "Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings."