Reply on the Sabbath Question
BRO. RICHMOND made the following request of the editor of the Harbinger relative to his article: "If this is rejected, please return." And the article was returned to Bro. Richmond with the following remarks by the editor of the Harbinger. I append my reply to a similar perversion of the word of the Lord, and request if you publish your quotations, that you give my reply with it. "Here then we have presented the best proof that an experienced and zealous Sabbatarian can find in the Bible to prove that Christians are required to keep the Seventh day or Jewish Sabbath! And what does this proof amount to? Nothing, but a perversion of the truth in a manner calculated to deceive the ignorant. Not a word is said or intimated about Christians in the texts quoted, though the editor of the Review evidently designed to make his readers believe that Christians were meant! If we do not misjudge, he intended to make these texts read in the beclouded minds of his brethren, thus: Christians, 'remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.' 'The Seventh day is the Sabbath,' for Christians! and 'the Sabbath was made for' Christians! This is the way these texts must read, and this is the way they have been perverted by the 'Advent Review,' to sustain its theory of the Sabbath! Surely, it is hard pressed for Bible evidence, and to supply the deficiency, its editor has handled the word of God deceitfully! May the humble Christian detect this lack of evidence in the Sabbatarian theory, and the deception that sustains it!" J. MARSH.