Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-05-27
JUDGE HoLeRook TALKS.
In Well Written Letter Explains
Adventism Very Clearly.

to see the destruction of the
world this year and are patiently
waiting the crack of DOOM"
! When the crack comes. the
| 18th judicial district will. in all
probability. have Judge who
| VIII hold court on Saturday.
| Hooper Press.
Ii true that the irst day. or Sun
| day-keeping Adventists. the Guinnes
sites, the Dimblebyites. the Totten
ties. the Rossites and others. nj
Sunday-keepers, of supporters of First
day sacredness, are time settlers and
have set various times for the second
coming of the Lord
But the above clipping is so worded
as to lead the readers of the, paper to
believe that Seventh Day Adventists
have also set the time. which is ut.
terly false. The observers of the
Fourth Commandment. or Seventh
day keepers. have never been time.
settlers. From the day of the orga-
NATION of the Seventh Day Advent
ist church it has steadily opposed the
time setting theory. 1t has always
49,. '''N 'cNp'ht vi ltit sotNtHin IDuN
Adventists church that no man CAN
know more about the time when the
Saviour is to come again to this earth
than God has revealed in His word.
as. for instance, when the disciples
on Mount Olivet, Just prior to the cru,
ciiixion. asked the Saviour. What
shall be the sign of Thy coming and
of the end of the world2" which anes.
lion Christ answered by telling them
OF many important events that should
transpire in the world, all of when
have since been fulfilled. as shown
by the pages of history. in the exact
order in which He mentioned them.
He then told them of certain last day
signs. and added When We shall
see all these things. know that 1t is
1ear, even at the DOORS or. as some
translators render it, Know that HE
Is near even at the doors"
Living as we are toGay. in the time
Of the fulfillment of the last sign
mentioned by the Saviour In that in
terview. we know that the time lis
near even at the doors" but how
much time the Lord calls near. even
1t the doors" He has hot revealed un.
to any man. 1t may be years. Suf-
ice it to say that the end cannot oc.
'ur In this year. for there arc unful-
1lled prophecies which. according to
scripture, will require longer time for
heir fulfillment
All the great international ALLAN.
es which have took place since
August, 1897 and all the great com
linations of capital which we have
witnessed of late. and many other
hings recently in evidence. are all
ulfillments of prophesies of the hi
Die for the last days; yet the end
annot occur in this year for the rea.
on that there are pfophesies to be
uliilled after this year.
II the Hooper Press wants to keen
sunday or any substitution for Gods
sabbath, 1t may do so without fear
# interference by the district jpdge
n any other reasonable person
After all efforts to induce the peo
,le of England and Scotland to change
rom the observance Of the Seventh
ay to the new Sabbath had failed,
Iustace went from Normandy over to
England in A. D. 1901 and carried with
i'm a roll. certified by certain ones
4 high authority. to have come from
heaven to Jerusalem upon the al,
ar of Saint Simeon. in Golgotha,
where Christ was crucified for the
'ins of the world" which roll sup
,lied the authority for the change OF
he Sabbath. which authority God
1ad in some way. neglected to put In
o the bible, and which roll command
ID: THAT no one. from the ninth
lour on Saturday until sunrise on
Monday shall do any work except that
which is good adding severe tempo
al punishment as penalty for the
'iolation of this new command. IN
he same year, A. ID. 1901, the church
n England, deeming the evidence suf-
icient, changed from the observance
If the seventh day to obedience to
he new command. Two years later
)r in 1903, at a church council held In
;cotland. the same evidence was pro
'uced was deemed sufficient. and up
m that evidence the same change was
made in Scotland. Since that the
,ortion of Saturday and the portion
If Monday have been gradually drop
red and the new Sabbath limited tc
sunday without the authority OF an
)ther roll from heayxen upon Sain'
,imeon's altar or any other altar
The Hooper Press may. without the
ilightest danger of interference. OBJ
'erve the new Sabbath as establish
ID by the new command found upor
Saint Simeon's altar, or 1t may, will
ike freedom. observe 1t in its presen
'mputated form with both ends Gu
| III. This is free country in whlcl
every individual may keep the ampu
ated Sabbath. or any other Sabbath
n TO Sabbath at all. accordingly a
conscience may distate. We inner
ted the new Sabbath from across tn
water. both headless and tailless. an
every one who wishes to Observe 1t I