Arizona republican., 1913-11-17
WNK IF YEAR
 SHOWS GROWTH
Good Attendance at Ad- VentiSt Tent on Tenth and Pierce When Chief Pas tors from Pacific Coast Preach.

In spite of the showers, the large service tent at the Seventh day Ad- Tentist camp at Tenth and Pierce streets was well filled last night Oakland. California. explained why his denomination differs from many ether denominations in the practice Of Sabbath observance Today's pro- gram at the camp provides for a regular conference session at 9:3O, preaching at 800 o'clock and a ser mon tonight by Pastor E E. Andross, president of the Pacific Union Con ference of Sevcntn-daY AdVentists. His subject as announced is Signs of the Second COminS of Christi
 The annual address given by the Arizona conference president, Pastor
 G. w. Reaser. in m early meeting yesterday was enthusiastically re- ceived by the delegates. This survey of the denominations work in the state during the year that was given showed that there had been seventy two baptisms and an excellent growth
 in the amount of tithe paid by the members This amounted to $6294, q gain of more than 5000 over the year before. Offerings for missions had reached $2050, a gain Of almost $500 ever the previous year. The per cap lta tithe amounts to $2I97, and per capita offerings for missions $9.11. In commenting upon the general out look, Pastor Reaser said:
 Tn thirty eight years of knowledge il the progress of the Advent mess age, l have never seer time when within my sphere of observation, so many interests have sprung up almost srontaneously-neW places which are inviting oul workers to come. and where doubtless churches might be raised up. There never was a time in the history of the church when it was more nccdfuI that We consecratc cur lives for service, and pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth Iaborers"
 Pastor Farnsworth in his sermon on the seventh-day Sabbath, last evening, said in part:
 The foundation of all Sabbath keeping, according to Seventh day Adventists' views, is found in the fourth commandment of the decalog. Believing with all other evangelical denominations that the ten com nlandments are still binding upon an mankind, they find, according to the fourth commandment that the scv- enth day is the Sabbath and that man ought to keep t. God was the
 maker of the Sabbath. After work inS six days in creation He rested on the seventh day, then blessed it and sanctified it, or set it apart for all mankind to observe. It is not in it's nature Jewish, but it belongs to the race. The Sabbath was made for man, said the Saviour. In describing it God said the Sabbath is a sign It is a sign of Gods creative power designed to point out the true God. aI4d keep ever in mind the fact that there is a God that created all things IL is a barrier against sl1epticism and idOlatry, and so the fourth command ment says, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy God first rest ed upon this day. Prophets, priests end kings did the same. The Lord Jesus Christ observed the seventh day Sabbath, and never observed any other day as a Sabbath. Seventh day Adventists believe that they should not only obey the command ments of God. but follow the ex- ample of their Saviour. They main tain that the change in the practices cf the people respecting the Sabbath was brought about through the influ- cnce of the Roman church centuries after Christ went to heaven. All in telligent Romansts maintain that their church changed the Sabbath. Impartial historians record the same fact. Seventh-day Advcntists believe that the Bible contains the teachings We should follow in the obedience to Gods comma ndments; hence they ob- serve the seventh day as the Sabbath rather than to follow the teachings and traditions of the Roman church"