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BIBLE TRUTHS REJECTED
TO SUIT CONVENIENCE.
EVANGELIST Froom Declares PrOtes-
tantism Rejects Bible Truths and
Substitutes Traditions.

Substitutes Traditions.
'.When Professionalism knowingly
comes face to face with Bible truth,
and rejects that truth for tradi-
ton, she steps down from the Pro
testant platform of The Bible On
| ly.' - Such were the opening re-
marks of Evangelist L. E. Froom
in an address on The Command
ments of God VS.. The Command
ments of Men"
Basing his remarks on Matt. 10,
10, which tells of how the Jews of
old really rejected thet Command
ments of God and made them of
none effect by their traditions and
practices, Mr.. Froom said:
Sad to say, most Protestants
are woefully inconsistent. Nearly all
hold, in theory, that Gods law is
the Interchangeable and eternal rule
of moral conduct. They say, No
Christian whatsoever is free from
the obedience to the Command
ments which are called moral Yet,
in practice, nearly all weekly vio-
late the express command of God
found in the Fourth Commandment.
The Bible says, as plainly as
words can utter it, that the sew
enth day is the Sabbath of the
Lord, thy God; in it thou shalt not
do any work. Elk. 20, 10. The chief
difference between we Seventh
Day Adventists and other Protes-
tants, in regard to the Fourth Com
mandment, is this: They do the
theoretical preaching while we do
the practicing.
Everyone knows Sunday is not
the seventh, but the first, day OF
the week Christ was crucified on
Good Friday, and remained in the
tomb over the seventh-day Sab
bath. His followers, it is recorded,
returned and rested the Sabbath
day, according to the Command
ment,' Lk. %, Sc On Easter Sum
day, the first day of the week very
early in the morning, they came to
the sepulchre, Lk. "a, 1.
I'm the face of the plain words
of the Fourth Commandment most
Protestants are observing the day
I, 20 10 hn ut
the week as it could be, and still
be on the calendar. In rejecting
the Bible truth they are following
the traditions of the church of
Rome. For three centuries Protes-
tants have been practicing what Is
scripturally false. This generatio1
received it from the one &efozS
| and so on, back TO the time
the Catholic Church changed
observance of the Sabbath from
Saturday, the seventh day of the
week, to Sunday, the first day of
the week, at the council of Laodi-
cea, in the fourth century this side
of the cross. Can it not be truly
said, Full we'll ye reject the Com
mandment of God that ye may
keep your own tradition9' Nix. 7-9.
Reforms, like apples, have their
time to ripen. When the harvest
is ripe, the harvest must be gath
cred. Wishing cannot hasten the
time, nor can fear delay it. All
over the world today are those who
love truth above tradition, and
the voice of God above the voice of
men. They are turning their feet
lin the path of Gods Command
are keeping the only
Sabbath God~eyer gave to man.
They are fulfilling prSophecy for in
speaking of this Sabbath-keeeping
the beloved John says,
of a church to be found just before
the second coming of Christ, Here
are they that keep the Command
ments of God and the. faith of
Jesus Rev. IA, H."
On Sunday night Mr.. Froom will
speak on "a Crime and the Crimi-
nal; $1,000 Offered for Text"