Opposition to the Sabbath
By Editor
Bro. Bates writes us that A. N. Seymour, hearing of the work of the Lord in Lapeer, has written to the Post Master of that place (so he was told) that if the people there would pay his expenses out, he would come and put down the Sabbath question; thus trying to beg his way into a community in order to oppose the Sabbath. We have heard him publicly apply Col. ii, 16 to the weekly Sabbath: "Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath-days." Yet no one is more ready than he, to judge, condemn and denounce a person for keeping the Sabbath. If that scripture applies as he uses it, why all this malice and enmity against the law of God? Why all this compassing sea and land to make a man its enemy? We presume the people of Lapeer are fully capable of taking care of themselves and managing their own questions, and that they will therefore be able to dispense with his, in his own eyes, invaluable services. It may be proper for us here to state that we once happened, unexpectedly, to be present at one of his public harangues, and from what we there saw and heard, we lost many of our fears that the man would be able to deceive any honest ones who have the love of Christ in their hearts and desire to manifest his Spirit in their lives, and who have any knowledge of the circumstances out of which he would endeavor to manufacture reports prejudicial to Sabbath-keepers. His course on the Sabbath question is a great negation. He endeavors to tear down, but not to build up. One would judge from his proceedings that the only sin in the world, was endeavoring to obey God in observing his holy day; and that whoever would desist from this, would be a saint indeed, a hopeful heir of salvation. We pity the man, and commiserate the deception under which he labors.