Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-06
THE S. D. 4. CAMPAIGNING.
The Closing Services Baptisms- Sermons
on the Sabbath Question.

At the Seventh Day Adventists camp
meeting, Saturday evening. Elder II. A.
Underwood delivered his last sermon.
Sunday forenoon. Elder II. W. Cottrell
gave his final address. The Subject was
The Sabbath. The text Preach the
Word: be instant In season, out of sea
son; reprove, rebuke. exhort with all
long suffering and doctrine Then if the
Word is to be preached, it must be taken
as it says. Then the doctrine cannot be
set aside. To believe that Christ rose
from the dead after His death for the
human race is a doctrine and it is faith
in that doctrine which saves; faith in all
the doctrines taught in the Scriptures is
necessary. Christ was our pattern He
believed that He would come again to
this earth, so He was an Adventist. He
kept all His Fathers commandments so
ne was Seventh Day Adventist ! am
a Seventh Day Adventist because Christ
was and am glad of it.
The sabbath was made for man"
Mark, liz. 1t was made in the begin
ming: after God the Lord had made the
heavens and earth and all therein, He
rested on the seventh day: He sanctifed
IT, which means to set apart for n holy
use. Then in the law as given on the
mount 1t reads; Remember the Sabbath
day to keep it holy" This shows that the
people at that time knew OF the Sabbath
but were admonished not to forget II Tho
commandment further says that THE
Sabbath day is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy Cod
Some Bible teachers would have us To
believe that the ten commandments were
nailed to the cross or abolished and then
nine or them. all excepting the fourth
were brought back again: but this yyouIti
be like n surgeon who amputates All 10
OF man fingers to get rid of one which
had blood poison. and then tries to grow
the other nine on again. Now that is
just the kind of work we charge God with
II we accuse Him of 81 n licb h. l.,
and then reinstating the other nine pre-
cepts so to be rid of the fourth There
was law which was nailed to the cross
but not the commandments.
But Christ says He came not to destroy
the law but to fulfil. and says: Till
Heaven and earth pass, one jot or one
title shall in no wise pass from the law
till all be fulfilled" Matt. Wills Then
IS perfect. converting the soul" What
need is there Of changing that which is
perfect! Then, speaking of this law
Gods Word says: And God spake these
words; and again He says in another
place that He will not alter the thing
that has gone forth out of His mouth.
There was a baptism in the forenoon,
Elder II. c. Basney administrator for
three candidates. All passed off smoothly
and with solemnty fitting the occasion.
They were immersed in the Kennebec
river. just back of the camp
Soon after noon Elder G. A. Irwin. FL
der II. A. Underwood and Elder H. w.
Cottrell took their departure by boat for
their respective fields.
The discourse of the afternoon was n
continuation of the same subject
introduced in the forenoon. The audience
was large, the tent being full. and Elder
Basney handled the subject skilfully and
interest was awakened in the minds Of
many
Following the afternoon service, a talk
on Health Reform and general hygiene
was given by Miss Biua Miller, a nurse.
from the Battle Creek, Mich. Sanitarium
This sanitarium is the largest institution
of the kind in the world. The drift of
her talk was in advocation of water
treatment. cooperating with nature and
dispensing with drugs as far as possible
She also advocated a vegetarian diet Civ
Ing preference TO fruits and grains.