p. 451 | SPURGEON AND THE LAW by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1881

SPURGEON AND THE LAW.

By Editor

A WRITER in the National Baptist relates the incidents of his visit to Mr. Spurgeon, in London, and among other things speaks of the examination of the stables. And this was the remark of Mr. Spurgeon:-

"My horses are under the law. They observe Saturday. On that day, they are never taken out, no matter who wants to go anywhere. So that when they carry me to town on Sunday, their Sabbath is not interfered with."

Now this may pass for a bit of pleasantry on the part of the great English preacher, and was probably so looked upon by those who placed it before the public. But it is more than this. It is an acknowledgment of Mr. Spurgeon that Saturday is the day enjoined in the law of God. Mr. Spurgeon preaches the obligation of the law with great force and vigor. On what ground he disregards the day which the law specifies as the Sabbath, and observes another day in its stead-a day which the law does not enjoin-we cannot say. But this inconsistency is so common in the religious world that it is looked upon as a matter of course, and nobody is greatly astonished thereat. Were an inconsistency so striking found among so small and unpopular a people as the Seventh-day Adventists, it would be the subject of a standing joke of the world. Diana of the Ephesians is a great goddess, and cannot be lightly spoken against. But, seriously, it is a great pity and a reproach to Christianity that popularity, and not Scripture truth, has become the measure of orthodoxy.