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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 22.

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COMMUNICATIONS.

By A. G. Carter

From Bro. Carter.

BRO. SMITH:—Soon after requesting the views of Bro. White for the time to commence the Sabbath, and where the saints would reign with Christ a thousand years, I became satisfied from Gen. i, 5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31, that the evening is the first part of the twenty-four hour day. In verse 5, a two-fold meaning is given to the word day. And God called the light, Day, and the darkness he called Night, and the evening (the dark part) and the morning (the light part) were the first Day. In the 16th verse we read, "And God made two great lights, the greater light (the sun) to rule the day, and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night; he made the stars also." Here I saw at the going down of the sun the day ended. Mark. i, 32 makes it plain: "And at even when the sun did set they brought unto him all that were diseased and them that were possessed with devils," to be healed. See also verse 34. The reason to my mind, that the sick or diseased were deferred by them until the sun had set, is that the Jews had thought to condemn the Saviour for healing on the Sabbath: not that it was wrong for the sick to be healed on the Sabbath; but that the Jews might accuse him. See Mark. i, 21-26, iii. 2-4.
The above with Lev. xxiii, 32, makes the time for commencing the Sabbath plain to my mind. From even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath, and not from evening to evening; for this would only be from sunrise to sundown; but from even when the sun did set, unto even when the sun did set again. We are highly gratified to learn through the Review that the brethren have adopted sun time; for we believe it to be Bible time, and have practiced accordingly.
I think Bro. White has clearly proved from scripture that the Saints will reign with Christ a thousand years in his Father's Kingdom above, in his article entitled the "Second Advent" &c. Also the article by Bro. Waggoner, "When will the nations be dashed in pieces," is to the point. We rejoiced much when Bro. J. N. A's, article for the time for commencing the Sabbath reached our dwellings. May the Lord help us all to profit by it.
There are some twelve or fourteen Sabbath keepers within eight miles of here. We design to keep up meetings every Sabbath at some one of our dwellings. We feel interested in the work, and wish we could help sustain it better. There are two at least at Bro. Town's who have come out decidedly on the Sabbath and Life and Death question. May the Lord help us all to grow in grace and in the knowledge and into the love of God, and the patient waiting for Christ that we may have a right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the City. A. G. CARTER. Dodge Co. Wis.