THE following extract is from the Advent Harbinger of May 29th, 1852, headed, "Second Advent Meetings."
"Auburn—Advent Hall, over H. G. Vananden's Drug Store, every Sabbath.
Canandaigua—Atwater Hall, twice every Sunday, and on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
Honeoye—Hazen's Hall, every Sunday.
Oswego—Franklin Hall, Woodruff Block, every Sabbath.
Manlius—Advent Hall, every Sunday.
Victor—One held twice on the Sabbath in Advent Hall.
Liverpool—Temperance Hall, every Sunday, and Wednesday evenings.
New York—Corner of Grand and Elizabeth streets, three times on the Sabbath."
If I understand the Harbinger, it teaches that there is no Sabbath under the gospel dispensation. But it would seem, from the above extract, that its friends were about equally divided on that question. I suppose, however, there is no real division, but their language is confounded. Anciently, when men attempted to climb up to heaven "some other way" than by obeying God, their language was confounded; and it would be well for modern builders to follow their example—"they left off to build."
While these men say, there is no Sabbath, they seem willing to have one, provided it fall on that day of the week "which the popes have Sabbatized." They can be obliging enough, notwithstanding they know better, to apply that title to the first day of the week, which is so pleasing to the public ear.