To Correspondents by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 27, 1859

To Correspondents.

By Editor

QuERY.—If the death pronounced upon Adam was corporeal death, and if that is the first death, and if the second death is after the sinner has been raised from such death, what death is that spoken of in Eph. ii, 1?

ANs.—The very death there described; namely, being dead in trespasses and sins. That the unsanctified state of the sinner is represented as a state of death, none will deny. But to make this the death threatened to Adam, as some do, is to confound the crime with the penalty. We have always considered that very profound theology, ironically speaking, which would make God say to Adam, In the day thou sinnest, thou shalt surely be a sinner!

QuERY.—If a Sabbath-day's journey is only a half a mile, is it right to go four or five miles to meeting on the Sabbath?

ANs.—By comparing together John xi, 18; (margin;) Luke xxiv, 50; and Acts i, 12, we learn that what was called a Sabbath-day's journey amounted to about two of our miles. But we find no directions in the Bible touching this Sabbath-day's journey. We find no divine command limiting the distance a man might travel on the Sabbath-day. This was wholly the work of Jewish tradition. As such we recognize in it no authority. To travel any reasonable distance in obedience to the injunction to hold, on the Sabbath, a holy convocation, we should not consider wrong.

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