Sunday Observance

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1865

Sunday Observance.

Bro. White: Past and present movements in the nominal churches, would seem to indicate that the attempted enforcement of the Sunday law, by the two-horned beast, is not very far distant in the future. Our great enemy knows very well, that those who "teach for doctrine, the commandments of men" are to be well drilled, in order to induce them to act with energy in the endeavor to carry out his plans.

We think that, if those who "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus" would act with as much energy as those who reject the truth, the 144,000 would soon be made up.

Inclosed, find a clip from the "Christian Advocate and Journal," of May 10, which induced me to make the above remarks.

W. S. Foote.

Pendleton, O.

GIFT TO MINISTERS.

Five hundred copies of that instructive and useful work, "The Sabbath Viewed in the Light of Reason, Revelation, and History," by Rev. James Gillilan, have been placed in the hands of the Western Book Agents, to be had gratuitously on application, by Methodist clergymen who are in active service and anxious to inform the people on the Sabbath question, with a view to promote the proper observance of this sacred day of rest.

This volume reaches its clerical readers through a succession of beneficent acts suited to enchace its value. The costly stereotype plates from which it is printed, are the gift of John Henderson, Esq., of Glasgow, Scotland, to the New York Sabbath Committee. They were transmitted by the Cunard Steamship Company without charge, and came from the custom-house free of duty. Copies are manufactured by the American Tract Society for the mere cost of production. Aided by liberal donations of a few benevolent gentlemen, the Committee have already distributed gratuitously over five thousand copies of the work among the pastors of various evangelical Churches, and the leading express companies have nobly seconded all these concurrent acts of benevolence by carrying those copies, free of cost, to their places of destination. The Committee are still continuing the distribution of the book as fast as practicable among the accessible pastors of evangelical denominations.

The New York Sabbath Committee desire in this way, to express their respect for the Christian ministry, and to aid them in advocating, in the pulpit and otherwise, the authority and better observance of the Lord's day, which in inseparable connection with the Bible and the Church, constitutes the only sure foundation of evangelical religion, private and public virtue, constitutional freedom, and national prosperity.