The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-10-11
SEvENTH-DAY ADVENTIST con-
FERENCE AND CAMP MEETING


Novel writers and novel readers
will be excluded from the kingdom of
heaven" said Elder G. B. Thompson
of Washington, d. c., at the morning
! preaching service yesterday at the
camp meeting of the Florida confer
ence of Seventh-day Adventists on
Oklawaha avenue, before a large con-
gregatiOn.
Elder Thompson inveighed strongly
against what he called chair and
| trash in reading Especially did he
criticize such reading by protesting
Christians, and strongly urged all his
hearers to make a daily systematic
study of the Bible, saying that the
neglect of Bible study was the secret
of the lack of power and vital Chris
tan experience in the church.
The legal association of the confer
ence, which is the body holding all
the church properties of the confer
ence, held a business meeting yester-
day morning and selected a body of
trustees, composed OF the following
persons: Elder ". H. Hickman,
chairman; Elder W L. Bird of Mi
ami; H. A. Shreye of Orlando; c. L.
Harvey of Daytona; B. J. Fountain OF
Morriston
At last nights meeting Evangelist
| Carlyle B. Haynes of Atlanta deliv-
cred an address on the subject, why
| Was Christ Crucifed?" He said in
part: Jesus Christ, though Lord of
the Sabbath, was denounced as a Sab
| bath breaker, was prosecuted spied
upon, convicted, and a robber and a
murderer chosen in his stead, and
was crucified because he would not
conform to the narrow, bigoted ideas
of the religious leaders of his day"
Mr.. Haynes showed from many pas
sages of the Old Testament that the
| Sabbath traditions, which were in eX-
istence at the time of Christ, grew
out of the previous experience of the
Jews He declared that the national
| existence of the Jews as the people of
| God depended upon the observance OF
| the ten commandments, and especial
ly Of the Sabbath commandments, for
that was the one which distinguished
! the true God from all false ones This
was so, he said. because the Sabbath
| commandment was the only part OF
the law Of God that set Jehovah be-
fore his people as the creator. Be
cause OF the feeling that the Jew had.
that their national integrity depend
ed upon their keeping the Sabbath,
they became very strict in its obsery-
ance. and made many rigid blue laws
about IT, These were the things
which Christ broke, and not the Sab
bath itself He said:
Jesus was prosecuted for keeping
| the Sabbath by the Pharisees and
doctors of the law SO it is today,
and, in addition, there is a dispute as
to what day should be kept Shall
Gods idea or mans idea of the Sab
bath prevail? And the Pharisees and
the doctors of the law today are just
as ready to persecute Gods people
for carrying out Gods idea rather
than theirs as were their ancestors OF
Christ's time.
Just as the Pharisees and Herod-
ianS of Christ's day conspired to put
Christ out of the way, so are secta.
rian enemies, who agree on one
point, the observance of Sunday, con
spring to get control of the state to
prosecute Gods Sabbath-keeping PEG
pie of today Today Catholics and
Protestants are joining themselves
together just as did the Pharisees and
the Herodians. on the Sunday institu
ton to get control of governmental
power 70 coerce all who do not agree
with them. in how the day should be
observed TO yield their idea of ODE
dience, but there are some people
! who are so much like Jesus that when
they are prosecuted to get them tC
yield the Lords Sabbath and adop
mans, they will not do it,"
REPORTER.