Investigating the Truths of God’s Word
By Editor
Betsey M. Osgood writes from Lairdsville, Oneida Co., N. Y.,: "There seems to be a moral destitution in this place of the preaching of some of the great truths of God's word. We are told from Sunday to Sunday that man has an immortal soul; and the first day of the week is repeatedly called the Sabbath; and the doctrine is affirmed that man at death goes directly to his reward, so that if we bring forward the Bible doctrine upon these points, as also that of a soon coming Saviour, they are called new doctrines. O, that man would investigate the truths of God's word for themselves, and not trust to the traditions of the fathers." The Bible is not a new book; and no doctrine can be found in the Bible dating farther back than the Sabbath and the mortality of man, except the fall of Satan. They date from the creation. The doctrine of the Lord's coming, also, is not a very modern doctrine, seeing it was promulgated by Enoch, only the seventh from Adam.—ED.