The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.
Interesting DiscOurses on Tithing and the
Sabbath in the New Testament.
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NJ. Elder Starr gave stirring health and temperance
talk He said the entire body of Adventsts would go
prohibition without doubt. They radically tenn
perance people. No one can join their church who
| tobacco stimulants. Those who tea
coffee do it under protest and not considered first
class members. Elder Starr does not believe that
dyspeptic be good Christian An rritated stom-
ach produces rrtated tempers and dispositions
He believes that many man loses his morality in
batch of his wifes bread. wfe's first duty is
to know how to get up healthful meals
for her family, and avoid the of spices
and hot sauces, unless she wants good
many family jars of the same temperament
Fruits grains and vegetables ordained of God for
food in the beginning The advenists vegetarians
for the most part and believe vegetable diet most
productive of good blood, brain and muscle. The
greatest health institute in the world is owned and
| carried by this people, 1t is located at Battle
Creek, Mich and their principles illustrated here
with great Elder Starr advised every house
wife to study Good Health" journal published at
Battle Creek for the benefit of her cookery and the
health and morals of her family. In the afternoon
Elder r. NJ. Underwood of the Iowa Conference gave
adiscourse the bible Plan of Supporting the Cos
pei" The congregation read his proof texts that
the sermon pleasantly varied by and another
reading the Scripture that clnched the points He
said:
Christ has undertaken the plan of salvation and He
means to support His work in the earth. All
the silver and and the gold belong to God
S ai there 'iBsa But msn take it put sher sg
upon it and say, at is mine" But God says, 1.-The
silver and the gold is mine" Hag. ii. g. Man
great because their pockets FULL but God says
Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is He
that giveth thee power to get wealth This talent
have ability 60 accumulate wealth ought not to
envy the rich; they will not have the terrible
sponsibilities to answer for in the Judgment. God
holds those who receive the blessings of the gospel
responsible for their dissemination and commands
to support the ministers of God He bids the minis
ter to give himself wholly to the things of the minis
try. He has provided that 1.-THE of everyones in
come ought to go to the support of the ministry.
This is not simply law of the Aaronic" priesthood
| but in existence hundreds of year previous.
| Abraham paid tithes to Mechisedec. who type
Of Chrst-priest of the most high God. Jesus speak
ing to the Pharisee. said of his tithing mint and
| garden herbs and neglecting mercy and Judgment,
This ought ye to have done and not to have left the
income rob God. NAL iii, 8. g. says: ''Will rob
| Code Yet we have robbed But We say wherein
have robbed thee2 In tthes and offerings. Ye
cursed with curse for ye have robbed even this
whole nation" Is it light thing to have Gods
resting upon usY Do Christians break Gods
| mandment-" Thou shalt not steal by withholding
their tithe9" ''Yeha robbed me, SAYS God Is #
vrtuous to rob your benefactor and than
| your fellow to whom you do not muchl
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duty. Will God accept the vain offerings from church
festivals and lotteries for the support of His work.
But, if will repent and bring all the thes into
the storehouse," He says II will pour you out
blessing that there shall not be room enough to
| ceive it. NAL iii, 10. How much better to have His
blessing than His Not only spiritually but in
basket and store will his blessing be felt He says Il
will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall
not destroy the fruits of your ground" Brethren,
whether you are Methodist Baptist Presbyterian
adventist let us prove God as He has invited us to-
| The blessing will be Let to rob Him,
and bring all the tithes into the storehouse
Elder D. M. Canright preached in the evening
the Sabbath question, taking his principal arguments
from the book of Acts. The speaker began:
God is our example-Eph;; y. l. " T ye therefore
his father We hear Like father, like son" like
priest like people," We shall know whether you are
child of God or not by the way you act Christ had
father the devil and the works of your father We will
do" God has given us an example for every day in
the week week He worked g ITO. to benefit sp man
day for mans good and His glory
If we follow God as dear children, will do the
from heaven, and left all for sakes and patiently
and infinitely He took up our labors our sufferings
our lifes monotonous duties and glorifed them Six
manhood, He labored with his father. His brow was
wet with sweat, His body weary with toll. He Ia
bored to benefit man six days in the week, but the
seventh found Him in the temple of God duke iv
16): ''And He came to Nazareth where He had been
brought up; and His custom was He went into the
synagogue the Sabbath day, and stood up for to
read" And Jesus repeatedly has said, Follow me-"
What divine life we will lead If we follow Christ
through every day, doing He has done This is the
obligation that is laid upon John, ii, 6. says:
He that saith we abide in Him ought himself. also,
to walk even He walked" The apostles
ere our examples. Paul says Il Cor. xi, u: BE
yef followers of me, as also of Christ" This
great apostle followed the Lord Jesus. He walked in
his footsteps. He preached the word of God. He
for He wen to hOuSa lead
ing with for their service to God He labored
benefit his brothers in every way. but he worked
and Friday at making tents, but Saturday was the
seventh day, the Sabbath of the Lord and that day
found him where Christ had been before him. Acts
xviii 4: And because they of the craft he
abode with them, and wrought for by their occupa
ton they tent-makers, and he reasoned in the
synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded the Jews
and the Greeks" Acts xiii IA: "And when they de-
parted from Perga, they came to Antioch. in Psida
and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and
gentiles, but especially to the gentiles Acts
xiii, 49, "And when the Jews were gone
os Of the s5t be nre the gef Sa@
the next Sabbath" 44th verse; and the mex t Sab
bath day almost the whole city together to hear
the word of God" There are numerous passages to
show that Paul followed the Lord in keeping the Sab
bath 1t not the first day but the seventh day of
the week. 1t was the day when the Jews assembled
for worship. There is record that the Sabbath was
changed. Not hint of it, When few turn and
keep the seventh day now, the whole town is stirred
III brings CONFUSION into the nelgho0fnood; but
in Paus day multitudes followed Paul. lie he had
kept day that out of harmony with the general
custom what confusion would have resulted! The
book of Acts written by Luke, Christian thirty
years after the resurrection and addressed to
Christians, yet he mentions that
the Sabbath changed. A death penalty
was pronounced upon Sabbath breaker
by the Jews, but read of one who died for VIC
lating the seventh day. On the day of Pentecost
5000 were added to the church in city. (Acts
ii, ALL Would it not have been recorded if they had
all begun to keep sunday instead of the Sabbath
Acts v, IA says multitudes added Acts XXI 20
says. And when they heard it they gorifed the Lord
and said unto him, Thou seest. brother how many
thousands of Jews there are which believe" Did
they go into the synagogue with Paul every Sab
bath dayi The unbeeving Jews watched to find ex
trines How ready would they have been to have ac
cused him of Sabbath breaking they could have done
So and thus have secured his death but this ACCUSE