The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-08


To THE REpuBLicAN;-My attention
has been called to a very lengthy re-
view" OF more than four thousand
words and running through live issues
OF the REPUBLICAN. published during
my absence from the city. In which
MIR. w. s. Chapman, an adherent Of
tho Seventh Day Adventists, abors
with great zeal to contfovert and dis
lcredit an essay on the Authority of
1.-THE Sunday Sabbath" which was road
before the Ministerial Union OF this
city. and FOR whose publication the
Union expressed its earnest desire.
The eesay has just been published by
Mr. Homer Barry tho printer on Ship
Icy stieet, from whom copies may be
lobtHined.
wish to thank the RErunLTcAN FOR
1.-The free advertising it has given this
little tract. To the so.cailed review
with Its personalities, Its curious reps
ititioBs and its distoI tions OF the state
Iments OF the essay, the sufficient reply
lis to refer any one Interested III the
subject to the essay Itself. am en-
Itirely content to rest the merits OF the
question under the Judgment OF
houghttul readers.
On one point only of all that has
IheeD alleged by the Reviewer is the es-
IDLE, refer to the value of the testi-
mony OF the Apostolic or Anto-Sicene
Fathers, whom Mr.. Chapman seeks to
Istigmati1e by calling them Catholic
Fati ers y but who.were In no sense Ro.
imam Catholics.
l. These Ante Nicene Fathers all lived
and wrote before tho Bishop of Rome
: was pope. and therefore before he
gained any such authority as would
have enabled him to change the Chris.
ltfan Suhb ith.
>, A authorities in the intsroreta.
ltlon OF tha Srrintures in Christian doc.
Urine or phlIosophy. they are not en-,
j.. 4tireIy trtIstworthy guides; but they
are among the bast and most reliable
}of thu soiIrees OF early church history.
they ara cited In the essay not for
Their Theological or pht,o sophicll
1pIntons but on the sImp.e historl.
lcal question, did thoy know anything
=: m their tlmes of sunday ds day OF
!. lr-st and worship To this question
, they clearly answer, yas. And there
: IA no renson for discredittup their
/. = atem fnta.
4. Tho alienation that two OF the six
! ltIocuInants ,Iuctei are forrerIes il but
! n fI1tile aifsmpt 10 break down and
llIacredlt the witnesses who show 80
plnlnlv. what is for these pepple a dis
} ngrraa6le fnet that tile rhanrs OF thu
!, Law nntrdates both the Pn5ncv and
!, 'onsipnttna That uli of thsse works
hlve not thus Lean stlgmatlIel must
!, Ina taken as mn admisslon that four or
the witnesses aud those among tho
. most imn0rtaftt, cannot he so attackeI.
mai, avi,Innra ntnna would nroye iii
L tar yhich the n1,ni,.tinns werr made,
/ The nrv ,forrsly . i.spl1rlore.' Is tha
! t,asv refiIya of those WHO do not relish
b fthe truth II h,fa hnan raised bv inf.
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IL most every hool, of tho New festa-
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