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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 20.

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H. A. Wetherbee: In answer to your inquiry, "Is it right to affirm?" we reply that as yet there is a difference of opinion on the subject among the brethren. We would not venture to lay down a rule here by which to regulate another's conscience on this question; and we wish to be understood as expressing only our individual opinion; when we say that we should have no scruples in affirming or taking a judicial oath. We cannot see that Matt. v, 33-37, and Jas. v, 12, refer to oaths as now required in our courts of justice. A judicial oath we understand to be simply calling God to witness to the truth of what we affirm; and we believe that Paul involved himself in every essential feature of such an oath, in the following instances: Rom. i, 9; ix, 1; 2 Cor. i, 23; xi, 31; Gal. i, 20; Phil. i, 8.