The Sabbath Question and Garbling

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 3, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 5.

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The Sabbath Question and Garbling

"The Day Dawn," which insists that it shall not be misrepresented, is not at all careful as regards others. It quotes from D. M. Canright that "the one great point in the Sabbath question upon which the Seventh-day Adventists stake the most, upon which they insist the strongest, which they repeat the most frequently and the most confidently, is that the pope of Rome did change the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day." But it is not so, and Mr. C. knows it. Of course, the Roman church acknowledges the claim that she did change the Sabbath, but the strongest argument on the Sabbath question is the eternal, unchangeable law of God, as taught and observed by Jesus Christ our Lord. Seventh-day Adventists do not teach that Sunday observance is the mark, save under such circumstances as shall place the individual who does it in opposition and rebellion to the plain command of God. To take a single complete sentence sometimes and tear it from its context is the worst of garbling. The church history which the Day Dawn quotes is after the same order. It is natural for those who leave the Bible to fall back upon "the fathers of the Catholic Church," which "blow both hot and cold."