Your ShelfYour Projects

HARD SPEECHES

17%

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 21.

Read the full edition

“HARD SPEECHES.”

The hardest spirit manifested against us at Marion was by the Baptist Elder, who said, "None but a black-hearted fiend would teach that the Sabbath was instituted at creation."
The Religious Encyclopædia (article Sabbath) says, "The Sabbath was appointed at the creation of the world, and sanctified or set apart for holy purposes, 'for man,' for all men, and therefore for Christians; since there was never any repeal of the original institution. Whoever, therefore, denies the obligation of the Sabbath on Christians, denies the obligation of the whole decalogue." Query. Are the authors of the Encyclopædia "black-hearted fiends", or has a little worldly wisdom made the Elder mad?
This Elder has a salary of six hundred dollars a year.
Eight of his members called for letters at one time. His craft was in danger, and this accounts for his rage.