The Sabbath---Both Sides.
By Editor
THE labor of our faithful missionaries in the East, Elders Loughborough and Cornell, is waking up a new interest upon the Sabbath question, and a more thorough discussion on both sides of the subject. The articles of Eld. T. M. Preble, in the World's Crisis, call the attention of the numerous readers of that paper to the subject in an impressive manner, having been an observer of the Lord's Sabbath, and having a reputation among Adventists as possessing a good degree of candor and piety. We are happy to announce that Bro. Uriah Smith, so favorably known as a clear and candid reviewer, has commenced a faithful review of Eld. Preble's articles, which will probably occupy a portion of each of the remaining numbers of the current volume of the Review. Eld. Preble's articles will be given entire in connection with their review, so that the reader will have both sides of the question at once before him. We decide to print the same matter in pamphlet form for general circulation, and especial distribution in the East. Let the people see both sides of this question. All sincere persons, no matter which side of the question they may occupy, will agree with us that the people should see both sides of the question. He who fears that the people may see both sides, is certainly too narrow in his views to wear the Advent name, and he exposes his lack of real confidence in the position he occupies. We are happy to find in Eld. Preble, as far as we have read his articles, a spirit of apparent candor, and that he does not fall into that contemptible practice, so common to a lower class of opponents to the Sabbath, of descending to bitter personalities, and the common babble about visions, &c., in order to poison narrow minds with prejudice. We now appeal to our friends to help us in the work of spreading both sides before the people. The review of Eld. Preble should be put into the hands of every reader of the World's Crisis. We offer the paper to you, brethren, if you wish to send it to your friends, at the rate of $1,00 a year. Now is a good time to subscribe for it, for them, and if you wish, the subscription can commence with the middle of the volume, embracing the Sabbath discussion at Manchester, N. H. Also, you who have confidence in the ability of the reviewer, send in your orders for the Pamphlet, which will probably be $10 per hundred, that we may better determine how large an edition to print. The Association will donate the work to all candid persons who will not purchase it. Its distribution gratis will be left to the discretion of our preachers, who have the best opportunities to thus circulate it. Let the work of spreading the truth be pushed forward with Christian forbearance and candor, and the zeal of that true loyalty which should characterize the people that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.