The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-07-04
Squire Fewel Talks abont Various
Matters.
EDITORS INTELLIaENCER !:

EUlIOhS
Having heard so much about the
Seventh Day Adventists I concluded to
go up to their tent, which is pitched
in Mr.. John Rosamond's pasture near
his residence. So on last Sunday a
week ago Mr.. J. B. King and l took
an early start and drove up there,
getting there about ten o'clock a. m.
Several people had already gathered
in and more we're coming until sup
pose they had between seventy-hve
and hundred in all, both small and
great. After obtaining an. introduc-
tioii to the Rev. Mr.. johnson he be-
gan to discourse to us on the beauties
of and true Scriptural doctrines OF
the Seventh Day Adventits (which he
said was ordained of God. They do
not, he says, claim anything that the
Holy Scripture does not teach. They
believe that Saturday (the seventh
day of the week. is the proper day to
keep holy or as the Sabbath. They
say the Bible so teaches-that six
days thou shalt labor and on the
seventh keep it holy, etc. They also
believe that the Savior will come again
and reign on earth. Mr.. johnson says
he believes that the end Of time is
near at hand-that the Scriptures are
being fulfilled rapidly, and that he
believes that before all the people are
dead that were living when the me-
teoric shower Of 1888 came that this
world will be destroyed, and so on and
so forth. I asked Mr.. johnson what
mode of baptism his Church believed
in or held to. He said that his
Church had regular accredited Pro-
phets who we're inspired by God to
enlighten the people in regard to diff
cult passages of Scripture, and that as
very eminent divines were divided on
this question as to which was really
the true mode of baptism, he said
that the prophets Of their Church had
prayed God to reveal unto them the
true mode of baptism which He, in his
infinite mercy and wisdom had done,
and this revelation was to the effect
that immersion was certainly the only
true mode of baptism as revealed by
Almighty God to the Prophets Of the
Seventh Day Adventist Church. So l
reckon there can be no more disputes
on that one question which has caused
so much argument and division in all
the Churches, and perplexing some OF
the most eminent divines that ever
lived-some holding to the belief that
immersion ia right, while others equal
ly as learned say that sprinkling is
right. I asked Mr.. johnson if he did
not think that all denominations were
not getting more in harmony with
each other-that if they were not
modifying their doctrines and Church
ordinances more in harmony with each
other than they had heretofore. eyes"
says he, gin less than ten years from
to-day there will be but two denomi-
nations on earth, and they will be the
Seventh Day Adventist and the Ro-
man Catholic So I reckon there
will be a considerable stir and hustling
around among the Protestant Churches
for the next eight or ten years. There
seems to be some opposition to the
doctrine as preached by these prose-
lytes. Religious freedom is guaran-
teed to every citizen by the Constitu-
tion of the United States. Ii any
person don t want to hear their preach
ing there is no law to compel them
to go and listen to them.
From the account given in the
Greepville Nc,cs Of the few campaign
meetings which have been held they
are getting hotter and hotter" Now
I don't see any use in all that sort OF
business-therc is no good in tit
will not benefit the people any nor
will it be any credit to the candidates.
That is the way Hook at it, but it
may be because l don't belong to the
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