p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 4. (1/23/1908)

Earlier text: General Meeting of the Alta Parana Mission

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WANTED.—An all-round blacksmith or a handy man who has had some experience in the work. Must be a Sabbath-keeper. For particulars, write to David Hartley, Newark, Ill.

WANTED.—Work by man and wife. Have no children. Have had experience in sanitarium, and in food and flake factory. Are willing to do almost anything. Are Seventh-day Adventists. Can go on short notice. Address D. O. Babcock, R. F. D. 1, Degraff, Ohio.

WANTED.—A boy aged between twelve and fifteen, to do chores on farm. Sabbath and public school privileges. Climate healthful. Away from worldly temptations. Our children are married. Would like some one with us. Address Solomon Brown, R. F. D. 1, Fleetwood, Pa.

FOR SALE.—Royal Peanut Butter, 11 cents a lb. We also prepare Royal Salted Peanuts, Royal Celery Salt, and we make a specialty of Pure Extracted Honey. Our products are guaranteed under the Food and Drug Act, June 30, 1906. Write us. Address Cleveland Health Food Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

FOR SALE.—Fine new house and two corner lots at Berrien Springs, Mich.; 1½ mile from the Emmanuel Missionary College. Interurban cars to college every hour. Just the property for some Seventh-day Adventist family having children to attend the school. Address, Box 247, Berrien Springs, Mich.

Central Union Conference Session

WE acknowledge the receipt of the printed announcement of the Third Biennial Session of the Central Union Conference, which is to be held at Boulder, Colo., from January 23 to February 2. While the purpose of the session is chiefly the transaction of business, it is the desire of the committee that it shall be also educational. Topics of general interest have therefore been given a place on the program. An educational convention will precede the conference proper, the date of the convention being January 20-22.

LAST week Elders G. A. Irwin and K. C. Russell, of the General Conference office, left Washington to attend the meetings of the Southern Union Conference in Nashville.

The Sabbath and Sunday Legislation

The following words are from a sermon by the Rev. Wallace Radcliffe of the New York Avenue Presbyterian church, Washington, D. C.:—

The Sabbath was made for man, not for money making, not for pleasure, not for ease, not for sloth, not for a third of the man, not for the Jew or Gentile alone, but for the race, for humanity, for the whole physical, intellectual, social, moral, spiritual man. It was not ordained by Moses nor abrogated by Christ. Its principle is as broad as the race and as deep as human nature. It was not instituted at Sinai. The command was not to do something untried, but to “remember” something already experienced. Christ did not abrogate it. He came not to destroy, but to fulfil. It continues with the same authority as does the seventh or eighth commandment. The decalogue in its entirety is perpetual.

This strong argument for the perpetuity of the Sabbath and the immutability of the law of God—strange inconsistency—was not made in support of God’s Sabbath at all, but in support of that institution which has done more than anything else to trample under foot the Sabbath of the Almighty. It was made in support of the Sunday sabbath, and to give force to a demand for legislation that will compel the keeping of that rival sabbath in opposition to the Sabbath of the “perpetual” decalogue. It was not made in support of the law graven on stone on Sinai, but in support of a perverted interpretation of that law, which robs it of the intent of the Law-giver, and makes it seem to stand for the thing that subverts it.

Columbia Union Headquarters

WE learn that the new Columbia Union Conference has decided to make Cumberland, Md., its headquarters.

The Editor’s California Visit

The editor left Washington last week for California, where he is attending the Pacific Union Conference, and may possibly attend some other meetings before returning. He will be absent from the Office about a month.

Religious Liberty and Temperance Literature

ABOUT forty of the students in attendance at the Foreign Mission Seminary spent the greater portion of one day recently in distributing religious liberty and temperance literature in the city of Washington. They report very interesting experiences in connection with this work.

Uniting Against a Common Foe

At all the various churches in Washington, D. C. (except the Seventh-day Adventist churches), there was given out on Sunday, January 12, a four-page tract entitled, “A Christian Appeal in Behalf of Sunday Observance.” This appeal was signed by the pastors of those churches, and officially indorsed by the “Interdenominational Committee on Sunday Observance in the Capital.” The churches represented are: Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist Episcopal, Friend, United Brethren, Zion Baptist, Methodist Episcopal South, Roman Catholic, Disciples, Protestant Episcopal, Reformed, Universalist, Swedenborgian, Baptist, and Congregationalist. It was not a striking document. The most striking thing about it was the fact that it stood for a great movement, a confederacy for the exaltation of Sunday. The appeal opens with the declaration that though “belonging to different religious bodies,” they address the people “upon a subject in which there is no difference among us.” In its second paragraph occurs this sentence:—

Believers in Christ, of almost every name, among many other points of agreement, unite in these two things: First, in holding that the Bible is God’s Word, and second in observing Sunday as the Lord’s day.

For a long time we have known, through the spirit of prophecy, that Sunday would be the great standard to which would flock, in the last days, all who would not heed the warning contained in the third angel’s message. The above list of denominations shows how faithfully that prediction is being fulfilled. The agitation for Sunday laws is fast bringing into the various denominations a spirit of combining forces. As the pastor of the Catholic church puts it: “Differing from them in many things, in this we can all agree, and must make common cause against the common foe.” Those who know this truth know who that “common foe” will be against whom all Christendom will soon unite. It is that little company who “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” This is no mere fancy or “figment of the imagination;” God’s Word is fulfilling, and the hour of the final struggle in the long controversy is fast approaching.

The Sunday Campaign in Washington

AFTER reading Sister White’s article on and studying the latter portion of it in particular, our readers will find it profitable to study in that connection the article in the Editorial department dealing with the Sunday campaign in Washington. It is more than a coincidence that these conditions have been so clearly depicted beforehand. Those who have followed the course of the Sunday campaign in this city and have noted the spirit of those behind the movement, can testify to the truthfulness of these words: “The Protestant churches unite with the world and with the papal power against commandment-keepers.” They are doing it here. Again: “The Protestant world to-day see, in the little company keeping the Sabbath, a Mordecai in the gate; . . . the unwelcome intruder must by some means be put out of the way.” The language used against our people during this campaign proves the truthfulness of this statement.