St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
IN THE COTTON CITY
A Big Day at the Adventists'
Camp Meeting.

Camp Meeting.
There was large attendance at the
camp of the Adyentists yesterday, and,
the weather being good, vast numbers
of curiosity seekers filled the grounds
and followed the speakers through the
sermons and exercises of the day. Hun
dredS embraced the opportunity to
enjoy day in the woods and
listen to something novel in the
line of preaching. Rev. D. A. Jonn-
son,Of Nebraska, delivered the sermon.
He is q tall. rather raw-boned, sandy
whiskered individual, who was intended
for Scandinavian, but whose parents
came to this country at so early period
in the boys history as to rather compli-
cate his nationality. He speaks both
Norwegian and English-tbe latter
purely and forcibly, but with Sufficient
foreign accent and idiom to make his
manner interesting. He is an odd fell
low, withal, and reminds one of an ami
mated interrogation point as he
looks shrewdly and knowingly from
beneath his overhanging eyebrows.
He proved to be regular old stage
horse when he fairly got to going.
He was thoroughly at home with his
subject, and could quote Bible from
Genesis to Revelation and history from
the Biblical account Of the flood to the
recently discovered historical tablets
from the buried cities of the Euphrates
valley. The top Of the desk was flanked
on either hand. and the shelf was filled
below with histories. Greek and He
brew, lexicons, Catholic catechisms,
and what not, while he seemed as
familiar with Gesenius, Robinson and
RaWlinson as with his A B C's.
His subject was the Sabbeth queS-
ton, and his voice made the woods re-
sound while he laid down the law in the
the seventh day Sabbath because the
Scriptures say that all things were
created by Him. He claimed to read
every text where the first day of the
week is mentioned, Matt. xviii, L;
Mark, xvi, 20; Luke, xiv, 1; John,
Xxx. 10; Acts, Xxx. Z; and l Cor.
xvi, q, and challenged any one
to show where any change of the Sab
bath from the seventh to the first day
was limited at, and called attention to
the fact that the texts showed the Sab
bath to be the day before the first day.
He claimed that the Catholic church
changed the Sabbath, and read from
the Bible what he thought was proph-
ecy that they would do it;
from a Catholic catechism their
boast that they had done
it, and from decree of one of their
councils by which the thing was done.
Referring to the argument that Sunday
was the Sabbath, because Christ and
his apostles held religious meetings on
that day. he declared that in the New
Testament there were eighty-three
times as many religious meetings Old the
Sabbath referred to as OIL Sunday. His
proof was as follows: Meetings on the
Sabbath-at Antioch 2, Acts xiii, IA;
xlic., "A; at Philippi /, Acts
xvi, 10. 13; Thessalonians third chap
ter, Acts, xviii, l, 2; Corinth rs. Acts
xviii, IA. IL. Total, 81. Meetings on
Sunday, Troas, |. Acts Xxx, z. He said
the meetings of Christ with the disci-
pies on tie first day were not religious,
nor in celebration OF His resurrection;
for they were at supper and did not be-
lieve He had risen. Mark xvi, IA.
In the afternoon Rev. r. G. Porter, of
Minneapolis, spoke on religious liberty;
and at 5 o'clock I'll. f. Phelps. Brainerd,
lectured on temperance. E. III. Gates,
of Colorado, preached in the evening.
To-day there will be a large baptism at
Lake Harriet, and tomorrow morning
the camp will break up.