Opponents in confusion on the Sabbath Question.
By Editor
In the article in our last on this subject, we stated that the Editor of the Advent Herald took the ground with Mr. Jennings, that our first day of the week was the original seventh day; and that the assistant Editor of that paper takes another position; that another day than the seventh should be observed for another reason than that given for the observation of the original seventh day; and that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath. An esteemed correspondent informs us that the conductors of the Herald “both deny that there is any difference in their views of the Sabbath.” Nothing would grieve us more than to know that we had misstated the views of any. It is due the Herald to say that we have never discovered but one position on the Sabbath in its editorial. But an extract from Jennings’s Jewish Antiquities, in which the writer labors to show that our first day of the week is the original seventh, appeared in the Herald of April, 1851; and we have been informed that the Editor of the Herald stated before Sabbath friends that that was his position. We shall ascertain whether we have been correctly informed in this matter, and if we have not, we shall be prompt to let it be known. And if the Editor of the Herald has published views against the Lord’s Sabbath, which he did not believe, it ought to be known.