Sabbatarianism by Jesse Hiestand

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 15, 1863

Sabbatarianism.

By Jesse Hiestand

BRo. WHITE : I gave a lecture on the law of God and Sabbath, some time since, in Merome, Ind., in C. U. College, of which N. Summerbell is President. He ridiculed me through the Gospel Herald, printed at Eaton, Ohio. I replied to the same, which called forth the following remarks from B. F. Summerbell, which I send you. As I see an article of his in our Sabbath paper, perhaps it should be known how he regards us.

Your brother. JESSE HIESTAND.

SABBATARIANISM.

Sabbatarians affirm that Christians ought to keep Saturday, the seventh-day Sabbath.

Sabbatarians have a paper of their own, in which to advocate their doctrine.

I propose that the question be fairly discussed, or excluded from the Herald.

In their paper, Christians who do not keep the seventh day are classed with them that steal.

We are not Sabbatarians, but Christians. We read the Scriptures, and believe on the Son of God. They read the Scriptures and believe in the seventh day. Let us pray for them; but as we love the truth we are not to open our doors to this hobby.

Also—If they can worship with us as Christians, then welcome them; but their seventh-day-advent-ism cannot be built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.

Was Paul, or Peter, or John, a seventh-day Advent preacher? What they taught, Christians believe.

B. F. SUMMERBELL.

Providence, R. I., July, 1863.

[We would inform Bro. B. F. S. that our good Sabbatarian brother was writing in self-defense in the Gospel Herald, having been attacked first. We have no fears of the issue of Sabbatarian doctrine upon the readers of the Herald; truth loses nothing by discussion.—ED. GOSPEL HERALD.]