Prejudice against Truth.
By Editor
[H. D. Clarke, who labored with Eld. Rogers in the Seventh day Baptist tent the past summer, gives in the Sabbath Recorder the following conversation with a minister on the subject of the Sabbath. We notice that those of that denomination who are, providentially as we trust, led out to labor more directly in the cause of Sabbath reform, come more in sympathy with the efforts and the means put forth by the S. D. Adventists. May the blessing of Heaven attend all alike who are trying to lift up the standard of the Sabbath of Jehovah, and his down-trodden precept. ED. SIGNS.] "I called yesterday upon a reverend gentleman, and after a pleasant conversation with his family, I asked him if he had decided to keep all the blessed commandments of God, and that included the fourth. He did not wish to consider the matter or talk about it, but I pressed the question, when he said he felt well satisfied with his Sunday. 'My father and mother kept Sunday, were good people, and have gone to heaven, and I do not wish to depart from their practice.' 'But' I replied; 'your sainted father and mother might not have had the light that you receive.' 'Well, if I keep the rest of the commandments, I think it will be well with me at last. Why has God so blessed us while we kept Sunday?' One of the family remarked that 'God never named the days of the week, hence we did not know whether Sunday was first or seventh day.'" ""Did you ever read the first chapter of Genesis?"" ""Do you claim "lost time," so you do not know when First-day comes?"" ""No, sir; there has been no lost time."" ""What, then, do you think of the fourth commandment?"" ""The commandment does not say keep the seventh day, but a seventh part of time."" ""Will you repeat the commandment just as it reads?"" ""Well, it don't mean the seventh day."" ""Do you, then, feel satisfied that any week day may be observed as the Sabbath?"" ""I desire uniformity about it."" ""Very well, for the sake of uniformity, if all parties will consent to it, would you be willing to keep holy the Wednesday?"" ""No. It must be Sunday!"" "Such is the argument of a religious teacher and his excellent family. Did ever mortal listen to such nonsense? 'It is time for thee, Lord, to work; for they have made void thy law.'" "Such conversations are numerous with professed gospel ministers, and a fair sample of their loose notions and lack of conscientiousness on vital questions of the day. 'Like priests, like people.' May God stir up his people as never before to see the darkness of the times."