Queries by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 26, 1860

Queries.

By Editor

Bro. Smith: Would you consider it a transgression of the fourth commandment for a brother whose place of labor is away from home, to use an hour, or an hour and a half of the Sabbath in returning to his home from his work?

2. Though he should close his work just before the return of the Sabbath, and start for home, could he be said to have entered upon the rest of the Sabbath while traveling home?

3. If so, would it not be equally right to return to his work, or the place of his work, as the Sabbath is closing?

4. If a brother is from home on sixth-day, on secular business, and allows his business to detain him till he must use a portion of the Sabbath in returning home, does he not violate the commandment of the Sabbath in so doing? Observer.

Answer. To the above queries we reply in order, 1. Yes. 2. We think not. 3. Yes. 4. We understand the expression, "and allows his business to detain him," &c., to suppose a case where this might have been avoided, and in this case we should also answer, Yes.—Ed.