The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-02
SUNDAY OR SATURDAY?
Erroneous Opinion of Seventh Day
Adventists About the Sabbath.

Adventists About the Sabbath.
To the Editor of the Globe.
1t is remarkable that a people who search
and seek with such apparent earnestness
after the truth as the Adventists can err SO
seriously and after discovering one OF their
errors after the other they are not much dis
couraged or ashamed of their blunder, but
simply say: 'It was so written in the
Bible that we should or would make mis-
takes at first. and so 1t had to come about
but we have now got the truth just right,
and we are the only ones who have got the
eternal gospel, and we will now preach it
to the world few days, for the Lord is com
ing very soon." (They have it from six
months to three years or so of late; the
former days they have fixed have always
proven to be mistakes when the day has
Gomez
In setting forth their various brand new
tenets they always claim to have the Bible
clear on their side, and can prove it album
dainty that their doctrine is the only cor
rect one. But how utterly untrue their
assertion is can easily be seen by any one
familiar with the Bible, and who will lay
all superstition, prejudice and incorrect Ian
guage or expressions aside and look at the
Bible text alone, as the only real authority
by which all Christian doctrine must stand
or fall. We will then find that the loud
cry and fuss the Adventists make about the
seventh day in the week being the day
on which God rested and on which man must
rest, else his Sabbath Is not the right one
has no foundation in the holy Scripture. The
Sabbath day is, in the Adventist's opinion,
based on a commandment given by God AL
mighty in plain, unmistakable terms; and
with very few notifications the entire Chris
tendon admit this. But now ask all the
Adventists in the world to try their best
and show me Gods commandment that tells
man to count from the creation or from
the very day the Lord rested on, in order
to find the day on which we to rest as
the Sabbath day. have been to an Ad-
ventistic camp meeting and offered several
of the church members and of their
highest teachers or leaders good-sized cash
reward if they could show me such a COM
mandment in the Bible or any record or ex-
ample of any who had kept such &C
count Of the days since the creation, and If
so, then to tell me who are to pay or re-
ward or thank them for the trouble when
God has not asked them to do it; but for
obvious reasons, not one Of them could take
the reward l offered, nor could they answer
the questions.
sect, and frankly asked him for information
on the above named subject His answer
was: ooh! that you will find on every leaf
and every page Of the Bible" and while say
ing this he disappeared into what looked like
a secondary tent inside the one I stood at
the open door Of. This. their highest author
tons regarding the commandment of the
Sabbath, which is the drive-wheel motive
power and foundation on which everything
depends in their so-called religion.
Fact is, that the Bible only tells man to
rest one day after six days work, just as
all Jews and Christians do; the COM
manQment goes no Iartner, It's connection with
Gods work and rest can at best be this that
as the Lord rested after six days work, so
man should do likewise, and not rest after
five or seven or eight days. Man has, how
ever always been allowed to make almanacs
or calendars and laws of convenient govern
ment as long they are not in contradiction
or conflict with Gods express commandments
Hence the government of community or
country is at full liberty to fix the seventh
day on one certain day to be observed as
Sabbath (rest, so that some of the people
may not disturb the Sabbath of the others
by working. If man did not have the liberty
to work many or few days until he could
overtake the Sabbath day of his community
then the Adventist's idea is wrong that our
first parents rested on the day the Lord
rested as they had not at that time worked
six days, as the commandment calls for; and
If their first Sabbath was a week after
the Lord rested, then they worked seven DAYS
before resting. which would also be against
the commandment and an Adventist who
happened to travel around the earth once
and thereby lost gained day could
never have Sabbath any more on Saturday,
but would have 1t on Friday or Sunday, un-
less he, after returning home, was at liberty
to work many or few days in order to get in
harmony with his community.
1t Is thus obvious that man was at lib
erty to fix the starting point of what the
Jewish as well as the Christian calendar calls
a week. The fact that the first day in the