{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_30531/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_30531","id":"gutenberg_30531","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30531","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Religion/Spirituality","Sabbath","Seventh-Day Adventists -- Doctrinal and controversial works"],"text":"A\n\n                               Vindication\n\n                                  of the\n\n                           Seventh-Day Sabbath,\n\n                                 and the\n\n                           Commandments of God:\n\n                        with a further history of\n\n                          God\u2019s Peculiar People,\n\n                            from 1847 to 1848,\n\n                             By Joseph Bates.\n\n                   1. \u201cNo God but me thou shalt adore;\n\n                     2. No Image frame to bow before;\n\n                    3. My Holy Name take not in vain;\n\n                   4. My sacred Sabbath don\u2019t profane;\n\n                    5. To parents render due respect;\n\n                   6. All murder shun and malice check;\n\n                7. From filth and whoredom base, abstain;\n\n                   8. From theft and all unlawful gain;\n\n               9. False witness flee and slandering spite;\n\n               10. Nor covet what\u2019s thy neighbor\u2019s right.\u201d\n\n                               New Bedford\n\n                        Press of Benjamin Lindsey\n\n                                   1848\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\nPreface.\nThe Sabbath Controversy.\nBarnabas Against The Sabbath.\nTo The Editor Of The \u201cAdvent Harbinger.\u201d\nTo the Editor of The Bible Advocate.\nPast And Present Experience.\nJoseph Bates. Scriptural Observance Of The Sabbath.\nUnder The Gospel.\nThe Beginning Of The Sabbath.\nThe Last Experiment On Definite Time; The Prolonging Of The Days _All_\nFailed.\nChrist\u2019s Second Coming To Gather His People.\nA Correction.\nSeventh & Fourteenth Of Revelations.\nFootnotes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nTO THE LITTLE FLOCK:\n\nI DEDICATE to you the following pages, with my continued prayers to God,\nthrough our Great High Priest and coming King, that they may, in\nconnection with God\u2019s Holy Word and guidance of the Divine Spirit, enable\nyou more clearly to discover the deceptive arts of the Devil, and the\nagents he is employing in these last days, to betray and ensnare you in\nhis (almost) innumerable and complicated variety of sins and snares; and\nsee your true position _just here_ under the HIGH LANDS of IMMORTALITY! Do\nnot forget, while seeking to understand the Scriptures with a simple and\nhonest desire to live _here_ by every word of God, to read again and again\nthe warning that God in his infinite mercy gave to Jesus more than fifty\nyears after his glorious resurrection and triumphant ascension to his\nFather\u2019s seat in his Sanctuary in the heaven of heavens; and he sent it by\nhis angel, who presented it before John in holy vision, recorded in his\nRev. xii: 13 and 17, and in xvi. chapter, first part of the 13th, and 14th\nand 15th verses. You will see the opening developement of these very\nthings in the work before you. None will fully realize them but those who\nare keeping _all_ of the Commandments of God, especially his Holy\nSeventh-day Sabbath. Without fear of contradiction here or hereafter\nbefore the great WHITE THRONE, I tell you there is not an Advent paper\n(that I have heard of) published in the land, that is leading to the\nkingdom. I do not say but what they publish many truths; but their\nheretical doctrines will, if followed, never, no never, lead you to God!\nAnd as you pass along through these peace and safety _valves_ in your\nprophetical history, watching and anxiously waiting for God to give the\nfourth sign of the coming of Jesus by shaking the heavens and earth, the\nsea and all nations, and give you the _time_ of Jesus\u2019 coming, you will\nmore clearly discover the widening track these advocates are pursuing with\nalmost to a _unit_ every professed advent minister in their train. You\nwill also see that the _Waymarks_ and high heaps in your pathway, _past\nand present_, are the only sure earthly guides to the peaceful haven of\neternal rest. From my watch-tower I have discovered and pointed out to you\nsome of the devouring WOLVES in sheep\u2019s clothing. Let us avoid them, and\nlive prayerful, humble and watchful, for more will yet be seen, and\nperhaps start right out of your midst!\n\nAs I am unable to pay the Printer, your means\u2014as God has given you\nability\u2014will be needed. I trust that God\u2019s true children are ready.\n\nFairhaven, Mass. Jan. 1848.\nJ. B.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE SABBATH CONTROVERSY.\n\n\nOnce more I feel constrained to speak in vindication of the Sabbath of the\nLord our God. I have been privileged to read about all the articles which\nhave appeared in the BIBLE ADVOCATE, both for and against the Seventh-day\nSabbath, for about four months past; and occasionally a thrust and a\nchallenge from the Advent Harbinger, declaring that the law of God was\nabolished more than eighteen hundred years ago, and that we have since\nthat time been under grace. The most that I have feared in this\ncontroversy was, that it would not be continued long enough to bring out\nthe whole truth, to the utter confusion and dismay of these professed\nSecond Advent Sabbath breakers. One trait in their characters is now\npretty clearly developed, that is\u2014they are Sabbath haters! The law of God\nis nicknamed by them, the \u201cJewish Ritual,\u201d the \u201cJewish Sabbath,\u201d the\n\u201cSabbath of the old Jews,\u201d &c. &c., thus virtually showing up their\ncharacters in these perilous times, according to Paul, as covenant\nbreakers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, denying the righteous law of God,\nand yet professing to believe the whole word of God. \u201cAs Jannes and\nJambres withstood Moses\u201d so do some of these leading men resist the truth.\n\u201cA wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land, the prophets\nprophecy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people\nlove to have it so; and what will ye do in the end thereof?\u201d Answer\u2014\u201cThe\nsoul that sinneth, it shall die.\u201d I think it is becoming very evident that\nthey are fulfilling Rev. xii: 17, and xvi: 13, first clause. None others\nso likely to deceive as these, because of their position in the near\ncoming of the Saviour. It amounts to almost an impossibility to get\n_their_ definition of the _Law and Commandments_. One class will tell you\nthat the old and new testaments are the Word and Commandments of God. A\nsecond will tell you that the new testament contains all the commandments\nand teachings that are now required of us. I was informed of a company of\nprofessed advent believers, not thirty miles from this, having become so\nalarmed or tenacious, that they would not carry the old testament with\nthem to meeting on the first day. There was nothing in it, however, that\nthey feared but the commandment to keep the Seventh-day Sabbath. A third\nclass will tell you that baptism, the Lord\u2019s Supper, washing one another\u2019s\nfeet, holy greeting, and all the commands which are given, are\ncommandments. Joseph Marsh, editor of the Advent Harbinger, says we are\nnot under the law (of Moses) but under the law of grace, the new\ntestament. Now the Apostle James has given us a test which will utterly\nconfound all such unscriptural arguments, viz.: \u201cWhosoever shall keep the\nwhole law but shall fail with respect to one precept hath been guilty of\nall.\u201d\u2014[_Macknight\u2019s trans._] Now to make it still plainer for us, he says,\n\u201cFor he who commanded do not commit adultery, hath commanded also, do not\nkill. Now if thou commit not adultery, _but killest_, thou hast become a\ntransgressor of the law.\u201d Now I ask in all candor which of these _five_\nare right? You answer, James, the inspired one. Well, does he justify\neither of the other four? You answer no, for he has directed us to the\ntables of stone, the ten commandments in the law, recorded in Exodus xx:\n1-17. This is the true source. Is it doubted? Then here is the testimony\nof Jesus in Matt. v: 17-19. Now read the 21st and 27th verses\u2014the very\nsame ones James has quoted. See also the 33d verse, the third precept.\nThere are several others if required, but surely these two are clear.\nCertainly no one will doubt from the above testimony but what the ten\ncommandments in the decalogue are all and the only ones that man is\nrequired to keep, with the exception of the new one in John xiii: 34,\ngiven for the church of Christ. But J. Marsh says, it is clear that all\nthe ten commandments in the decalogue were abolished at the crucifixion of\nChrist. So says every one that takes this stand, and they quote for proof\n2d Col. 14-17. But it happens very unfortunately for them all that James\nsaw his master crucified and his testimony is dated A.D. 60, about\ntwenty-nine years beyond their point of time, and shows us that the\ncommandments were as much enforced then and ever would be, as they were\nwhen his master was crucified twenty-nine years before. Now I say that\nthis testimony pointedly and positively condemns them and will condemn\nthem at the judgment. For proof of this I appeal to the teachings of our\nLord Jesus Christ, what we must do to be saved, \u201c_If thou wilt enter into\nlife, keep the commandments._\u201d But some will say James called it the law,\ntherefore you must so expound it. I will let God and Jesus do that: God\nsays positively that the keeping of the Seventh-day Sabbath is my\n_commandment and my law_. Exod. xvi: 28, 29. So he has in other places\ntaught us respecting the whole decalogue, and so in like manner does\nJesus. Read the same question and answer recorded in Luke x: 25-28: \u201cWHAT\nSHALL I DO TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?\u201d Jesus asks him what is written in the\nLAW. He repeats the words of Jesus recorded in Matt. xxii: 36-40, or, in\n37-39th verses. \u201c_And_ (Jesus) _said unto him, thou hast answered_ RIGHT\n_this do and_ THOU SHALT LIVE.\u201d Now, if you want it still clearer, read\nMatt v: 17-19. Law and commandments are here too, synonymous: \u201cWhosoever\ntherefore shall break one of these least [_laws_] commandments, and shall\nteach men so, shall be in no esteem in the reign of heaven, but whosoever\nshall _practice_ and teach them shall be highly esteemed in the reign of\nheaven.\u201d\u2014[_Campbell trans._] That he is speaking of the law of\ncommandments in the decalogue is positive and clear from the 21st, 27th\nand 33d verses. That he means the whole, is also clear from this and the\nabove quotations in Matt. xxii. and Luke x. Now if the keeping of the\ncommandments will secure us eternal life, and the violation of them render\nus of no esteem in the reign of heaven, how can those enter there who do\nnot keep them, and especially such ones as Joseph Marsh and his adherents,\nwho are teaching the world that there are no commandments, and are\nendeavoring to dissuade and discourage and reproach all of God\u2019s honest\nchildren, who are striving to be highly esteemed in the reign of heaven.\nDoes not the Saviour\u2019s language as clearly apply to them now as it did\nwhen he was permanently establishing and confirming this covenant, the law\nand commandments of God, \u201cputting them into our minds and writing them on\nour hearts.\u201d viz.: \u201cWhy do ye also transgress the commandments of God by\n_your_ tradition? Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophecy of you saying,\nthis people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with\ntheir lips,\u201d [They are advocating his speedy coming to judge the world.]\n\u201cbut their heart is far from me. But _in vain_ they do worship me\n_teaching_ for _doctrines the commandments of men_.\u201d Oh, but say some, we\nbelieve that the commandments are as valid now as they ever were. Why do\nyou then constantly and perseveringly reject, scoff at, and sneeringly\nderide, and denounce, those that are as honest as you are, while they are\nendeavoring to keep the fourth commandment just as God had directed them?\nWhen you have been so repeatedly shown by their writings, drawn from the\nclear word that the fourth commandment is not abolished and _never_ has\nundergone any change more than the other nine, and that there is no other\nweekly sabbath recorded or intimated in the old and new testaments. If you\nwill follow such downright infidelity as is taught in _all_ the second\nadvent papers respecting God\u2019s holy sabbath, and still continue to\nstigmatize the holy law of God, how can you expect to be treated otherwise\nthan the rebellious house of Israel, and be made to feel in a very little\nwhile from this, all the horrors of a guilty conscience, urging you to do\nthat which you now detest and abhor: even to come and bow at the feet of\nthese very despised\u2014as you are now disposed to term them\u2014\u201c_door\nshutters_,\u201d \u201c_mystery folks_,\u201d \u201c_Judaizers_,\u201d \u201c_feet washers_,\u201d \u201c_deluded\nfanatics_,\u201d _&c._ _&c._ See Isa. xlix: 23, and lx: 14; Rev. iii: 9. Here\nyour characters are delineated. You say no, these mean the nominal church.\nIt is not so. _They_ have rejected the message of the second advent. And\n_you_ since that time (1814) have rejected the word of God. Our testimony\nwill not be rejected when called for that you with us left them with all\ntheir creeds and confessions of faith and professed to take the whole word\nof God for our rule of faith and practice. This then is your clear\nposition, even while opposing the commandments of God. If you ask why I\nspeak in such positive terms about or concerning the commandments of God,\nallow me to cite you to our history, Rev. xiv: 12. Is not this positive\nproof?\n\nAlso in xii: 17. Do you not read your own characters as described above,\non the remnant of the last end? and are not these individuals who enter\nthe gates of the city the same remnant that are at last saved by keeping\nthe commandments? xxii: 14. Does not the 15th verse describe those who are\nleft out, \u201cand whosoever loveth and maketh a _lie_.\u201d How perfectly this\ncompares with what I quoted above, Rev. iii: 9. See also 1st John ii: 4.\n\u201cHe that saith I know him and keep not his commandments is a LIAR and the\n_truth_ is not in him.\u201d You will possibly say the three texts which I have\nquoted in Rev. xii., xiv. and xxii., have no reference to the Sabbath.\nWhen I come to treat on the xiv. of Rev. I will look at this point. But\nallow me to state here, that the first three commandments in the decalogue\nhave never been a subject of dispute (_separately_) in Christendom, while\nthe fourth _has_ been for fifteen hundred years. We know positively that\nthis is true in our second advent experience. Therefore it is plain that\nby keeping the fourth commandment or the seventh-day Sabbath as it stands\nrecorded, and in the very time too in our history, we are clearly\nfulfilling the prophecy, viz.: \u201cHere is the patience of the saints, here\nare they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.\u201d Allow\nme to state my conviction here with reference to the great mass of advent\nbelievers especially, that if they could quietly dispose of the\nseventh-day Sabbath and sink it with the Jewish rituals, then they would\nnever raise their voice against the other nine commandments of God. This,\nthen, is the evident reason why they are wielding their puny weapons to\nsmite down the only foundation that upholds the old and new testament. It\nwould be much easier work for them to stop the raging of the hurricane.\nGod has them in derision, he will laugh them to scorn. But I must pass to\nthe examination of this subject, as I intimated in the beginning.\n\nIS THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK THE SEVENTH?\n\nBefore entering upon this subject, it will be proper for me to state, that\nsome time last August the editor of the Bible Advocate, being pressed by\nhis brethren to open his columns for the discussion of the Sabbath\nquestion, rather reluctantly complied, by first giving his views against\nit. He stated that he should first give C. Stowe\u2019s view, in the\naffirmative, covering the whole ground, and then the view of some other\nwriter in the negative, before he published any thing more on the other\nside, and so on. Sister Stowe\u2019s piece, accompanied by the views of the\neditor, appeared in the B. A., Sept. 2d, 1847. C. Stowe sent the editor\ntwo articles, as she says. The editor saw proper to publish her second\narticle and withhold the first, for purposes best known to himself.\nPerhaps it was considered objectionable, as the editor of the Advent\nHarbinger had refused to publish it for her. So for some reason or other,\nonly part of the ground was covered, and not one candid objection or\nexamination offered to her second, except by a certain character, who,\napparently, was ashamed to have his real name known among honest seekers\nfor the truth. So far as the subject has advanced, J. Croffut, of N. Y.\ncity, J. B. Cook, of New Bedford, Mass. and A. Carpender, of Sutton, Vt.\nhave spoken in the affirmative. The negative is advocated by the editor,\nJoseph Turner and Barnabas, and perhaps two others; besides what has been\nteeming from the Advent Harbinger, in the negative. Now, I do not\nre-examine Turner and Barnabas, because they have not been ably replied to\nby J. Croffut, J. B. Cook and C. Stowe of N. H., but because I see the\nnecessity of taking up the subject in a different form, without being\nrestricted, as all generally are, who write for papers. Another important\npoint which governs me, is, that all the little flock may understand the\ntrue bearings of the subject, for there are undoubtedly a great many that\ndo not see the Bible Advocate, and because I felt like taking a part in\nthis great subject, in which I feel deeply interested, and I see from the\ncommencement that I was excluded from that paper, by the statement that C.\nStowe would cover the whole ground in the affirmative. I furthermore\nperceived there were additional objections to their unscriptural views,\nwhich continued to be presented to my mind.\n\nJOSEPH TURNER in attempting to prove that Sunday, the first day of the\nweek is the seventh day of the week, and therefore the proper Sabbath, has\nfailed to make out his case. His proposed foundation is from Matt. xii:\n39, 40. \u201cBut he answered and said unto them, an evil and adulterous\ngeneration seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it,\nbut the sign of the prophet Jonas, for as Jonas was three days and three\nnights in the whale\u2019s belly, so shall the son of man be three days and\nthree nights in the heart of the earth.\u201d He says, \u201cto rear the temple of\nthis body in three days, or to remain in the heart of the earth three\nnights and to rise the _third_ day was, according to the above scripture,\nto be a sign. I will now prove by Christ and his disciples that this sign\nwas literally given, and that he arose, not the second, but _third_ early\nin the morning.\u201d This statement is not true. The above scripture states\n_three_ days, and not as you say you will now prove _in_ three days. If it\nproves any thing, it proves three whole days, and then of course the\nSaviour would rise on the fourth day. This, according to your mode of\ncalculating, would make the seventh day come on Monday. If you want the\nthird day, or within three days, why not take as many as you need for your\nargument, from the eighteen other texts, and not take this isolated one,\nand then pervert it, as you have done. The only object that I can see, in\nyour perversion of the text, is to prove, as you say, that Jesus was three\nnights in the heart of the earth, viz.: Friday night, one; Saturday night,\ntwo, and Sabbath night, three. You say, \u201cthat Christ was actually raised\nthe _third_ day and not the second, as tradition holds it.\u201d I am not aware\nof any such tradition. That would be perverting the whole eighteen texts\ninstead of the one you have done. But that he was raised the third day,\nand that third day was the first of the week, is the joint testimony of\nthe four evangelists, Matt. xxviii: 1; Mark xvi: 2; Luke xxiv: 1; John xx:\n1. But let us see how you have obtained these _three_ nights as stated\nabove, which, as you say, \u201cproves triumphantly that \u2018OUR SABBATH\u2019 is the\nseventh day.\u201d First read the second paragraph in your P. S., where you\nhave attempted to pervert the plain and clear testimony of Luke, in chap.\nxxiii: 54, 56. Here you stated one scriptural fact: That the Sabbath\nalways commenced at evening. \u201cFrom evening to evening shall you celebrate\nyour Sabbath.\u201d Then, as a most natural consequence, the next day would\nbegin where the Sabbath ended, and so of every other day thenceforward, or\nchaos and confusion would follow. This also perfectly agrees with God\u2019s\nmanner of commencing time at the creation: \u201cThe evening (first,) and the\nmorning is the first day,\u201d &c. Now as you have shown that Friday was the\nfirst day of the crucifixion and that it was so far spent and passed away\nat the time our Lord was buried, that the women could not have got home\nand prepared spices, (which probably was not more than twenty minutes\nlabor,) before the next day began. How, and by what authority do you claim\nFriday night? Does Friday night come after twenty-four hours of that day\nare spent? You see how difficult God makes the way of transgressors. You\nmay reply that you made a mistake. Will you allow me to tell you where\nyour mistake commenced on this subject. If I am not very much mistaken it\nwas when you gave up keeping the true seventh day, the only historical,\nchronological or biblical day of the week ever given to man. Well, you may\nsay, I have made some converts. True\u2014but they are also deceived, and many\nvery likely rejoicing in it like D. B. WYATT, who seems to have swallowed\nthe whole, and is endeavoring, with the assistance of the Advent\nHarbinger, (although they are at antipodes respecting the commandments of\nGod,) to spread the glad tidings far and wide. This editor is in no wise\nparticular about men and measures to accomplish his Jesuitical purpose, to\nannihilate the very foundation and superstructure of the Bible, \u201cthe\ncommandments of God.\u201d Matt. xxii: 40. This wonderful piece of Advent\nintelligence is recorded in the same paper with D. B. Wyatt\u2019s, Sept 9,\n1847. See also April 28, page 38. Let it be well understood here also,\nthat this man and J. V. Himes, editor of the Advent Herald, are the two,\nand only two, editors and papers in this country, which William Miller of\nLowhampton, N. Y. recommends to give the light on the second Advent. The\nmeat in due season.\n\nYour erroneous doctrine is heartily welcomed by some here, and many I\nunderstand in New Bedford, and very likely many in other places. Yes, I\nhave heard of it away on the Lakes. I was told by one the other day who\nhad backslidden like yourself, that it was the best argument he had yet\nseen. Now if you undertake to rectify your mistake, it is possible you may\ndestroy all their joy, until some one presents another error\u2014for the\ntruth, it seems, they are determined not to have. Again, you say, \u201clet my\nbrethren remember that the law of Moses, made the first day of the feast\nof the passover, a sabbath in which no work should be done; this was the\nSabbath that drew on. Moreover, I will here prove that the next day\nfollowing the crucifixion, was not the Sabbath of the Lord, which the Jews\nat that time kept.\u2014See Luke xxiii: 54.\u201d Now, I say if you will read the\nnext two verses, 55 and 56, which are connected with 54, it will\npositively contradict your assertion, for it proves that they did keep the\nnext day as the Sabbath, according to the commandment, and the seventh-day\nSabbath was and is, the only Sabbath commandment in the whole bible. You\npass this over and cite us to Matt xxvii: 62, 64, and base your whole\nproof on _inference_. It is this, that the Jews were so strict and pious\nin the observance of the Sabbath that they would not have gone to Pilate\non that day to have asked him to set a watch over the body of Jesus, if it\nhad been the Sabbath, because it would be an important fact to record\nagainst them. \u201cHow easy to have said in this record that the Jews on the\nSabbath,\u201d &c. Yes sir, it would have been just as easy for _your_ purpose,\nto have said in this record also, that \u201cOUR SABBATH _is the Seventh day_.\u201d\nThen probably you would not have to answer for the sin which you have in\nthese instances, knowingly committed. Besides this, you must have\ncalculated largely on the credulity of your readers, to suppose that _all_\nof them would swallow such absurdities. As that men, who had just\ncommitted one of the most aggravating crimes ever recorded in the annals\nof history, in barbarously and cruelly murdering the son of the living\nGod, should then for fear of having it recorded against them as touching\nthe purity of their motives that they had violated the holy Sabbath of God\nby calling on the Governor, on the Sabbath of the Lord God, to set a watch\nover their victim, for fear that some of his disciples would come and\nsteal him away, and thus openly expose them to the scorn of the world.\nThis is your proof why the next day after the crucifixion could not be the\nSabbath. How unfortunate and trying it must be to you, who, after being so\nhighly extalled by your hearers in New Bedford, Fairhaven, &c., for your\nclear and plain Holy Ghost living and preaching, to have to flee to such\nmean subterfuges to establish a position to justify your backsliding from\nthe plain and positive texts which stand right in your way.\n\nRespecting your text in Matt. xii: 40. If you made use of it as it stands,\nit would positively prove the resurrection to be on the closing hours of\nMonday, between 3 and 6 P.M. and not in the morning, as every where\nrecorded. So then, to fulfill your text to the very extent, and have the\nresurrection in the morning, it must be on Tuesday morning, for, Monday\nmorning would bring you twelve hours too soon, only two and a half days\ninstead of three. This would make _your_ Sabbath, as you exultingly claim\nit for your adherents, come on Monday; that is, by your new mode of\nestablishing the Sabbath. And then D. B. Wyatt, if he followed your\nstrange view, would have to recall his address to his brethren and change\nthe time of celebrating the Lord\u2019s Supper on Monday evening, and have it\non Tuesday. I presume the editor of the Harbinger would have no objections\nto the alteration, provided Mr. W. was satisfied.\n\nI know it is stated that Jonas was three days and three nights in the\nwhale\u2019s belly. I know of no way to prove it but by the recorded time that\nour Lord was in the earth. You see that Matthew says _as he was_ three\ndays, &c. Now for the proof of how long _he was there_. First\ntestimony\u2014his disciples, Luke xxiv: 21-23. Second testimony\u2014Angels, v: 7.\nThird testimony\u2014Jesus himself, 46 v. \u201cThus it behoved Christ to suffer and\nto rise from the dead the _third_ day.\u201d This testimony, be it remembered,\nwas given a few hours after the resurrection, on the same day. Here then\nis the proof of what Jesus had before asserted, recorded ten times by the\nevangelist, and once by Paul; 1st Cor. xv: 4; Matt. xvi: 21; xvii: 23; xx:\n19; Mark ix: 31; x: 34 and viii: 31;(1) Luke ix: 22; xiii: 32; xviii: 33;\nJohn ii: 19. And five times by his accusers, Matt. xxvi: 61; xxviii: 40\nand 63; Mark xiv: 58; xv: 29. Every one of these eighteen texts records\nthe resurrection _in_ three, some of them _within_ three days; and not a\nsyllable about _nights_. The one in Matt xii: 40, says three days and\nthree nights, referring to Jonas, as above. Now I ask, shall we take this\none isolated text, out of the harmony of the whole eighteen, _and then\npervert it_, to prove that some how or other the world have lost one day,\nand therefore the first day of the week is the seventh. We all know that\nour judgment always rests on the majority or weight of evidence. Here then\nwe have seven to one besides the testimony of Jesus himself after his\nresurrection, that he arose the _third_ day, and clearly demonstrating\nthat he did not lie there three days and three nights, and proving, to my\njudgment, that Jonas was also delivered the third day. See other scripture\nrules, Esther iv: 16, 17, and v: 1. Here the Jews were to fast three days,\nbut Esther ended it the _third_. See also 1st Kings, xx: 29, the seven\ndays ended on the seventh. Also, Gen. xvii: 12, eight days. Lev. xii: 3,\nshows the eighth the same. Thus we see that the testimony of Jesus is\nclear.\n\nIt is clear to my mind that the Lord Jesus was not at furthest, more than\nthirty-eight hours in the tomb, and yet he was there, according to\nscripture proof, a part of Friday, the sixth day, _all_ of the seventh\nday, Sabbath, and a part of Sunday, the first day, which last was the\nthird day. Proof, Luke xxiii: 54-56. \u201cAnd that day was the preparation and\nthe Sabbath drew on.\u201d Mark this, that the preparation had come, and they\nwere drawing to the Sabbath. _See here_, the preparation was always on the\nday of the Passover, the fourteenth of the first month. The feast day was\nthe fifteenth, the next day. Let Moses give the time: \u201cAnd ye shall keep\nit up [the Lamb] until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole\nassembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.\u201d Exo.\nxii: 6. The original\u2014see margin\u2014reads _between the two evenings_. See the\nsame in Num. xxviii: 4,\u2014practiced and carried out even to lighting the\nlamps in the tabernacle. Exo. xxx: 8.\n\nNow our blessed Lord expired on the cross at the very time that this\npreparation always took place for 1670 years before, namely, the ninth\nhour, (Matt. xxvii, and Mark xv,) three o\u2019clock in the afternoon. Then\nbetween the two evenings is just three hours, from 3 to 6 P. M. Keep this\nclear in mind and you will clearly understand how the disciples could have\nthree hours from the death of their master to see him put in the tomb, to\nhave gone and \u201cbought sweet spices.\u201d (Mark xvi: 1,) and be ready to keep\nthe Sabbath according to the commandment, (please read it in Exo. xx:\n8-11,) as stated in Luke xxiii: 54-56. You will understand Mark xv: 42,\n\u201cNow when the even was come because it was the preparation, _that is the\nday before the Sabbath_,\u201d that it was the ninth hour, or 3 P.M. Here the\npreparation goes on for three hours, until the Sabbath commenced. You see\nhe says this was the day before the Sabbath, and when the Sabbath was\npassed, early in the morning of the first day, they found he had arisen.\nMark xvi. Here then is the three days: The day before the Sabbath he was\nentombed, between the hours of 3 and 6 P.M., and the day after the\nSabbath, the first day of the week, he arose. As J. B. Cook says, I can\nconceive of nothing more definite. Whitby and Scott say, \u201cIt is a received\nrule among the Jews that a part of a day is put for a whole day.\u201d And so,\nlet me add, it is with the commercial nations of the earth. Every bill, or\nnote, or deed, counts the day of its date and the day of its\nextinguishment. For instance, the transaction of an interest note takes\nplace at half past 11 o\u2019clock in the evening of the first day of January,\n1847, and the interest is cast to the first day of January, 1848, the\ndemand for it would be valid if called for at 30 minutes A. M. after\nmidnight. Both of these dates are counted days in this and all other kinds\nof business transactions, as we reckon time. And I say it is impossible\nfor any rational being to understand it in any other way. When one day\nends the next begins, and so I have amply shown is the bible rule. Then,\naccording to the testimony adduced, if the Saviour was placed in the tomb\nany where between the hours of 3 and 6 o\u2019clock P. M. on Friday, then I say\nthat day was as much counted for one, as the day on which he arose; and no\nman, not even J. Turner, undertakes to say that it was more than a part of\na day. That this work of preparation was all accomplished before the\nSabbath came, is perfectly clear from the two passages already quoted in\nLuke and Mark. See also John xix: 31. Here then the antetype agrees\nperfectly with the type, all the preparation work accomplished between the\nhours of three and six in the evening, called between the two evenings.\nMuch also has been said about the next day, the fifteenth being a Jewish\nfestival Sabbath, and therefore God\u2019s seventh-day Sabbath could not\npossibly be until the day after. Just as well might it be asserted when\nour fourth of July happens to fall on Sunday, that it could not be Sunday,\nbecause it was the anniversary of our independence, but the next day would\nbe Sunday. This explains all the difficulty. This feast day of theirs\nalways following the Passover day, happened this year to come on God\u2019s\nholy Sabbath day, hence the peculiar expression of John, \u201cfor that Sabbath\nwas an high day.\u201d God\u2019s instruction to Moses respecting all the feast days\nis right to the point, \u201c_Every thing upon his day._\u201d Lev. xxiii: 37. You\nsee there is no provision to defer the Sabbath festivals whenever they\nhappened on the Sabbath of the Lord our God.\n\nNow I think the above Scriptures do clearly and incontrovertibly establish\nthe resurrection to have been on Sunday morning, the first day of the\nweek, and the day before, on which the Saviour rested in the tomb and his\ndisciples in the city of Jerusalem, was the seventh day of the week, the\nSabbath of the Lord our God, according to the commandment; and the day\nbefore that, viz. on Friday, he was crucified and buried. This clearly\noverthrows your unscriptural arguments to establish the first day of the\nweek for the seventh-day Sabbath.\n\nI have gone much further into this argument than I should, had I not have\nheard and seen the incalculable mischief that was being accomplished by\nthe spread of such an argument; from one too, who is looked upon by those\nnot personally acquainted with him as an ambassador, fully approved of\nGod; a pillar in the church of these last days; one who is fully competent\nto preach and take the lead in camp-meetings, &c. &c. And still I feel\nthere is a duty devolving upon me, which I ought not to shrink from,\nnotwithstanding his high profession, and being fostered, and upheld as a\nbrother beloved, by the Advent papers.\n\nIt is that since the winter of 1845, you have, by your deceptive arts, and\nfalse expositions of God\u2019s Word, taught and practiced ridiculous things in\nthe churches, such as God never has, nor ever will approve. Your\nconfession last spring in the Boston Conference seemed more like\njustifying and exalting yourself from your debased and fallen condition,\nthan a bible confession, which says, \u201cconfess your faults one to another.\u201d\nBut you perceived, I suppose with others, that it had become fashionable\nto confess the monstrous errors in our past experience in the advent\ndoctrine to those who had drawn back and organized under the Laodocean\nstate of the church. And also, that J. Marsh of Rochester, and others from\ndifferent places, were distinguishing themselves by their wonderful\nconfessions; therefore you also confessed how sorry you were for the\nmischief (or injury) that you had done the cause of God by writing and\npreaching the doctrine of _shut door_ and _Bridegroom come_. Here you\nattempted to put down and destroy two of the most important and prominent\ntruths according to the types and new testament teaching, with our history\nin the past, that is connected with the \u201ctwenty-three hundred days,\u201d and\n\u201ccleansing of, or vindicating the sanctuary\u201d; and use them as a scape goat\nto carry off and hide your unholy and iniquitous practices from their\nview. Why not confess that after you and A. Hale had published this clear\nscriptural view, that you had been so positive that you were right in your\nposition, that at one of your meeting places in Portsmouth, N. H., you\ndeclared that you was ready to seal it with your own heart\u2019s blood, and\nthat the appointment which you afterwards made to meet at Richard\nWalker\u2019s, if not, you would state the reason by writing, had been utterly\ndisregarded, although you had passed through there several times. Why not\nconfess with contrition your unscriptural teachings and practices? And\nlastly, why not inform your listening audience of the wonderful discovery\nand proficiency which you had made during that time, in the growing\nscience of your predecessors, \u201cJannes and Jambres?\u201d and what a loving\ndrawing and wonderful effect this mesmeric influence produced on some of\nthe dear sisters! You was aware that such kind of satanic practices would\nnot go down with your hearers, therefore you withheld it probably for a\nmore convenient season. The response from heaven to this confession (I\nthink) is long since recorded by a servant of the Lord. Isa. i: 10-15.\nSince you began to preach in New Bedford, where it was said such a\nwonderful revival was following your preaching and practice, that some in\nFairhaven were looked upon as sinners, because they would not believe that\nyou were filled with the Holy Ghost. Here in New Bedford, I am told, that\nin reply to some of these charges: that you had studied or looked into the\nsubject of mesmerism that you might ascertain the cause, or meaning, of\nthe delusions practiced by the advent people. I think that by comparing\ndates, it may pretty clearly be known that this is one of the first and\nprincipal causes of the state of things now among many in Maine,\nespecially where your influence was felt. In the course of this\nconversation you stated something else, which you will remember, and for\nfear, or something else, that it would not be believed, you said you could\nprove it by certain persons whom you named. I have since ascertained that\nthese persons neither _know_, nor have ever _known_, or _have intimated\nany such thing_. Now, I ask, how much your confessions are worth in Boston\nor any where else. In the name of my Master, I here warn the little flock\nto beware of your ungodly teaching.\n\nSince answering your argument on the first day for the seventh, I see by\nthe Advocate of Dec. 16th, your exulting reply to J. B. Cook. Because he\nhas not met every point of your twisted, sophistical argument, you now\nthink it will stand forever. You say \u201cThe position _I_ have taken will\nstand the onset of _all_ while the eternal rock of inspiration stands\nsecure; hence with confidence calm as heaven, I take my pen to reply,\u201d &c.\nWe read that \u201cthe Devils believe and tremble,\u201d while this wonderful man is\n_calm_ as _heaven_, because he thinks he has gained one day since the\ncrucifixion, which would destroy the law of God, the fourth commandment,\nwhen in fact he has only stole six or eight hours. Perhaps he will try to\nborrow or take the balance in the forthcoming articles which he promises.\nAnd here he says again, \u201c_the matter shall_ REST _without a_ REVIEW ON\nEITHER SIDE\u201d!! \u201cVanity of vanities, saith the preacher!\u201d Will God\u2019s word\nforever remain unvindicated, because of your veto? Your one mistake that I\nhave shown, proves your infallibility. Let me repeat it in connection: In\nyour text, Matt. xii: 39, 40, it states three days and three nights. This\nitself overthrows the whole of your argument\u2014for three days are just as\nlong as three nights. See how it will work by _your_ rule: Jesus entombed\njust about 6 P.M. on Friday. Now count\u2014Friday evening, one night; Saturday\nevening, two nights; Sunday evening, three nights. Now for the days:\nSaturday, one; Sunday, two; and Monday three. But to make it three, the\nresurrection must be on Monday evening, at 6 o\u2019clock, and the scripture\nsays he arose in the morning! Then if you wait until Tuesday morning, you\nmake it just three and a half days and four nights, and _your_ Sabbath\ncommences on Monday. But if you say it must be Monday morning, then you\nhave but two days and twelve hours. You say this would be the third day,\njust as I say\u2014true, but this text says \u201cthree days.\u201d Besides, you say in\nyour second article, \u201csome have been so _vain_ on this point as to count\nthe day of the crucifixion, one; the next day, one; and then the morning\nwhile it was yet dark, one; and therefore the third day. _This is almost\nwicked._ Does not Jesus Christ in whose word we trust\u2014say three _nights_?\u201d\nYes, sir, and does he not as expressly say three _days_, too? If we are\nalmost wicked in counting, as _you_ say, then all the evangelists were,\nMark and Luke especially. I say there is no other rule but the one you\ncall us _vain_ for using. If it is almost wicked to count a part of the\nfirst day, for one day, by what authority do you count a part of the last\nday, for one day? The scripture no where says, _two_ days, and _three_\nnights.\n\nAnd then as I have shown where you borrowed a part of a night, by counting\nFriday night for one of your three nights, when you insisted upon it that\nit was past, because the disciples had no time left of Friday to even\nprepare their spices. Did you not see that if you claimed six hours of\nFriday, to break the scriptures, that the disciples would have just as\nmuch time to prepare for the Sabbath? How is it that you do not understand\nwhat the angel Gabriel said should be in the last days: \u201cBut the wicked\nshall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand.\u201d I really hope\nno one will be troubled with your forthcoming article. It would be far\neasier for you to shovel the Alleghany mountains into Lake Ontario than to\nattempt to gain one day, or prove that we have lost one.\n\nYour threat about the fallacy of history, and what you will do about it,\nis also vain; yet, if you could do so, the bible is a sufficient rule in\nthis case. You have therefore made but two and a half days and two nights,\nand work it which way you will, you will fail. You cannot destroy the\nvalidity of the other eighteen texts.\n\nIt is clear that the Jewish feasts always occurred when they fell on the\nSabbath of the Lord. Lev. xxiii: 37, last cl.\n\n\n\n\n\nBARNABAS AGAINST THE SABBATH.\n\n\nBarnabas would fain have the world believe that God has made one law which\nman could never keep without leading him into bondage. He says, \u201cSister\nStowe, nor any others of like faith pretends to keep the seventh-day\naccording to the commandment, that reads, \u2018thou shalt not do any work.\u2019\nExo. xx: 10. \u2018Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.\u2019 There\nstands the command with all its terrible sanctions of thunder and\nlightnings. If this command is now in force sister S. and all the rest\nmust stand condemned at the dread tribunal of God, for they all break that\ncommandment as much as we who do not pretend to keep it.\u201d The speciousness\nof B.\u2019s reasoning is a great deal more likely to lead saints into bondage,\nthan what he has said of sister Stowe. He begins in the very onset to\nmislead the mind. He quotes \u201cLet no man go out of his place on the seventh\nday,\u201d and says, there stands the command with all its terrible sanctions\nof thunder and lightnings, and then says sister S. and Br. Bates and all\nthe rest must stand condemned at the dread tribunal of God, for they all\nbreak that _commandment_. Now I say this is not a commandment, but a\ncommand given to the children of Israel twenty days before they heard that\nterrible thunder and lightning at mount Sinai, where the ten commandments\nwas made known to them by the Almighty God\u2019s speaking them all out in an\naudible voice, and then writing them with his own finger on tables of\nstone. These are all the commandments that God ever gave to man, and they\nwere as equally binding on the stranger, (the Gentile) that was within\ntheir gates, as on the Jew. Every one can see how difficult it would be\nfor a man well versed in scripture to remember every direction, or a \u201cthus\nsayeth the Lord,\u201d for a commandment, especially the millions who cannot\nread. They were of that character, of so few words, that God directed them\nto \u201cbind them for a sign upon their hands, and they shall be as a frontlet\nbetween thine eyes,\u201d (\u201cthat the Lord\u2019s law may be in thy _mouth_.\u201d Exo.\nxiii: 9,) \u201cand thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on\nthy gates.\u201d Num. xv: 38-40; Deut. vi: 8, 9. This, God\u2019s code of Laws was\nput into the Ark. Deut. x: 5. And he says that \u201cone law shall be to him\nthat is home born and to the stranger that sojourneth with you.\u201d Exo. xii:\n49. Now Moses\u2019 code of laws was written in a book and placed in the same\nark. Deut. xxxi: 24-26. This law from the xiv. ch. and onwards, and in\nLev. was to be read to the whole assembly once in seven years; see xxxi:\n10-12, and Neh. viii: 1-6. Six hours, reading from morning to noon. But\nthe ten commandments as in Exo. xx: 1-17, can be read in three minutes. If\nyou want to understand God\u2019s code of laws separately set forth and\nenforced, see from iv. to xiv. of Deut. His reasons for giving them to the\nJews, vii: 6-8, and x: 22. He tells them they shall not add nor diminish\nfrom them. Deut. iv: 2. (Mind this.) \u201cThe man for gathering sticks (either\nto kindle a fire for his comfort, or cook some food, B. says,) was by the\ncommand stoned to death.\u201d This is all supposition; nobody knows what he\ngathered sticks for, or what size they were; he was stoned to death for\nit, and so we might be now if the law of Moses was in force. Let it be\ndistinctly understood, that God\u2019s code of laws, which comprises the ten\ncommandments, does not forbid us to kindle fires on his Sabbath; nor\nrequire us to stay in our houses, nor forbid us to assemble together to\nworship; neither does it forbid us to administer to the sick on his\nSabbath, nor do any _work_ of absolute necessity. These I propose to treat\nupon more at large, under the head _Scriptural Observance of the Sabbath_.\n\nBarnabas says, \u201cif the covenant is not altered, amended nor repealed, then\nit means just what it says. \u2018Thou shalt not do any work,\u2019 stands out in\nbold relief against those who talk so much about the command, but never\nyet pretend to keep it. If they say they have a right to alter the\nphrase,\u201d &c. Now we answer, that we never have attempted to alter it. It\nis perfectly right, and your bare assertion, in the absence of any kind of\nproof, does not, nor ever will prove, that we do not refrain from work on\nthe Sabbath, according to the commandment, as set forth in the Scriptures.\n\nTwo kinds of work are specified or inferred in the law of Moses. \u201cIn the\nsweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,\u201d &c. The way this is done, \u201cman\ngoeth forth to his work and to his labor until evening.\u201d This of course\nincludes from the first day to the seventh. Then Sunday is the first\nworking day of the six. This is distinguished _servile_ work, because in\nLev. xxiii. chap. and xxviii. and xxix. ch. of Numbers, the Lord\u2019s Sabbath\nand the Jewish Sabbaths of holy convocations are all brought to view, so\nthat from the 14th day of the first month to the 22d, is the feast of\nunleavened bread with offerings, and fifty days from the wafe sheaf or\nresurrection is another. See Lev. xxiii: 16-18, and then from the first\nday of the 7th month until the 23d of the same, viz. 1st, 10th, 15th and\n23d. The eight last days is a continual feast. Now the Sabbath of the Lord\nGod must inevitably be included in this last eight day feast of\nTabernacles; once every year, and very frequently on the first and tenth\nday Sabbaths, and so from the passover feast to the end of unleavened\nbread, always must include the weekly Sabbath every year; sometimes on a\nfeast day, which John calls \u201can high day.\u201d Now the order of these Jewish\nSabbaths and feasts. God says of them \u201c_every thing upon his day, besides_\nthe Sabbaths of the Lord,\u201d &c. All the work was to be performed in these\nfeasts, come on what day they did, besides the offerings on the Sabbath of\nthe Lord. Lev. xxiii: 37, 38. Well, what was the work for every weekly\nSabbath? See Num. xxviii: 9, and on Sabbath two lambs, besides the daily,\nwhich was two more; see 3d v. So we see here were always four lambs, with\nthe meats, &c. offered every seventh day, and sometimes thirty bullocks,\nrams and lambs; and in all of the Jewish Sabbaths except that on the tenth\nof the seventh month, it is expressly said \u201cye shall do no _servile work_\ntherein.\u201d Now all this was work and labor, but it was ceremonial worship\nand obedience to God, hence it was not _servile_ work. It is explained in\nExo. xii: 16, \u201cNo manner of work shall be done save that which every\n_soul_ must eat. That only may be done.\u201d What will you do with all these\ncommands, Barnabas. Did they not have to go out of their places after God\ngave them the law from mount Sinai? Did they not assemble for worship? Did\nthey not prepare them food to eat, think ye, after the manna ceased? and\ndid not the Saviour say of his disciples, when reproached for eating corn\non the Sabbath day by the Pharisees, that they were guiltless? Was it\nwrong to take it without leave? See Deut. xxiii: 24, 22. Was not the work\nof circumcision always going on every weekly Sabbath? Now Jesus being the\nLord of the Sabbath, shows us under the Gospel, where he transposes these\nten commandments from the tables of stone, and gives them in our minds and\nwrites them on our hearts; shows us that this work or labor on the\nSabbath, were henceforth acts of necessity and mercy, instead of _servile\nwork_ because our mode of worshipping God was entirely changed. Hence\nJesus said, \u201cMy Father worketh hitherto and I work.\u201d John v: 17. See what\nkind of work, xvii: 4. \u201cDone the will of God, finished his work,\u201d after\nsupper. See also iv: 34, and v: 36. See his good works, x: 25, 32. This\nthen was the work that Jesus and his Father were doing, and for these he\nis called a notorious Sabbath breaker. Well he is now doing a marvellous\nwork. Hab. i: 5, yet ye will not believe. \u201cIt is time for the Lord to work\nfor men have made void thy law.\u201d Psl. cxix.\n\nIt does not follow that men shall be put to death now for violating the\nSabbath, any more than for violating the first, fifth, seventh, or all the\ncommandments\u2014for the penalty of death follows the violation of every one\nof the commandments.\n\n1st commandment: \u201cThou shalt have no other Gods.\u201d See Deut. xiii: 6-10 and\nExo. xxii: 20.\n\n2d. \u201cThou shalt not make any image.\u201d Deut. xiii: 12, 16.\n\n3d. \u201cThou shalt not profane my name.\u201d Lev. xxiv: 16, 22, 23.\n\n4th. \u201cRemember the Sabbath day.\u201d Num. xv: 32, 33, 36.\n\n5th. \u201cHonor thy father and thy mother.\u201d Lev. xx: 9.\n\n6th. \u201cThou shalt not kill.\u201d Lev. xxiv: 21 and 17.\n\n7th. \u201cThou shalt not commit adultery.\u201d Lev. xx: 10.\n\n8th. \u201cThou shalt not steal.\u201d Joshua vii: 20, 21 and 25.\n\n9th. \u201cThou shalt not witness falsely.\u201d Deut. xix: 16, 17, 19, 21.\n\n10th. \u201cThou shalt not covet.\u201d Jos. vii: 20, 25.\n\nAll of the commandments together. Num. xv: 30, 31; see also Deut. xxviii:\n15-67.\n\nIf these were all to be enforced now, there would be but a small remnant\nof the ten hundred millions now living, left upon the earth. If it is\nproper to enforce the fourth, it is the whole. How clear that all of these\ndeath penalties were annulled with the Jewish dispensation.\n\nWhen Jesus begins to promulgate his Gospel, the stoning system is all\nbroken up; see his admirable sermon on the mount. Matt v: 38-48. \u201cYe have\nheard that it hath been said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,\nbut I say unto you that ye resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee\non thy right cheek, turn to him the other also,\u201d &c. &c. Here we see that\nall the followers of Jesus are to be peace men, or non-resistants, an\nentire change in administering the law. Says Barnabas, this is just what I\nhave been trying to make you believe, that the law, _all_ of the _law_\nthat the Jews were subject to in their dispensation was abolished under\nthe Gospel, for we are here under the new testament law, (grace). Not\nquite so fast: Jesus forseeing such kind of teaching as this, placed the\ncommandments of God, (on which hung all the law and the prophets,) on an\nimmovable and fixed foundation and carried the teaching and keeping of\nthem clear into the reign of heaven; and any honest man who is seeking for\nthe truth though he be ever so ignorant in other things, will admit, when\nhe reads the 17-19, 21, 27 and 33d verses in this chapter, the force of\nthis truth. What an idea that Jesus should promise such invaluable\nblessings to his followers after they become immortal only to mislead and\ntantalize them. This is the tendency of your no commandment no law system.\nWhy Jesus tells you that the teachings of the bible have no other\nfoundations to stand upon. Well the multitude would not believe him then\nas you and others will not now. See what confusion and shame they suffered\nand bore in withering silence from his simple direction about enforcing\nthe old law for the violation of the seventh commandment. Here _she_ is\nmaster, \u201cNow Moses in the law, (not God\u2019s code of laws,) commanded that\nsuch should be stoned. But what sayest thou?\u201d \u201cLet him that is without\nsin, cast the first stone at her.\u201d The consequence was that the woman was\nleft without an accuser. Thus for once the whole multitude were convinced\nthat the stoning system for violating the commandments was abolished. See\nJohn vii: 3-11. Again, you ask, \u201cWhat type or part of the law was\nfulfilled by Christ keeping the seventh day, or in our keeping it?\u201d\nAnswer\u2014\u201cLove is the fulfilling of the law.\u201d \u201cIf ye keep my commandments ye\nshall abide in my love, even as I keep my Father\u2019s commandments and abide\nin his love.\u201d John xv: 10. \u201cThis is _my commandment_ that ye love one\nanother as I have loved you.\u201d 12 verse. Again, Jesus says in Matt. xxii:\n37-40, where he includes all of the commandments that love to God and love\nto our neighbor, is the whole law and the prophets, i. e. that this is the\nsubstance of the whole ten commandments. The great one on the first table,\nthe second on the second table of stone. Paul tells the Hebrews that the\n_law_ having a shadow of good things to come cannot make the comers\nthereunto perfect. This is the _law_ of Moses. The ten commandments, the\n_law_ which God audibly gave from his own mouth, is the one that Jesus\nhere refers to, and the only one that he kept abiding in his Father\u2019s\nlove. Isaiah says, \u201cHe will magnify the law and make it honorable.\u201d You\nknow he dishonored the law of Moses by abolishing sacrifices and offerings\naltogether, and nailing it to his cross. It appears to me that any child,\nanxious for the truth, would see this distinction. But no, you seem\ndetermined on abolishing the whole. You see that Jesus\u2019 commandment, John\nxiii: 34; xv: 12, is the very essence of his Father\u2019s and is given\nexclusively for the church; but his Father\u2019s was, and is for the whole\nhuman family, and the fourth contains the Sabbath. Now do you see what\nJesus means when he says he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill,\nand don\u2019t you understand him to, that this law will stand after the\nheavens and the earth are passed away. Here then is how and where he\nfulfilled the law, or as you ask to know, a part of the _law_, for in\nkeeping the commandments he certainly kept the Sabbath; see Mark vi: 2,\nand Luke iv: 16, 31. This, then, is the way we fulfill the law, by keeping\nthe very same seventh-day Sabbath. There is but two codes of laws brought\nto view here, viz. God\u2019s and Moses\u2019. Don\u2019t you see here he has fulfilled\nthe first and abolished the last. You take this rule with you to your\nfavorite texts, viz. Col. ii: 14-17; 2d Cor. iii, and Gal. ii. and v.,\nwhere you say the commandments, the law of God, and the Sabbath, are\nabolished; and you will find the same distinction. God never gave Paul,\nnor you, nor any one else, any more liberty to preach that _his law_ was\nabolished in this, or any other way, than he did to preach that there was\nno salvation for man. Don\u2019t you preach that man should obey the law of\nGod, and when man obeys as Jesus did, don\u2019t he fulfill the _law_? Can you\ntell how man can fulfill it without obeying the _whole_ law? You say that\nwill bring us into circumcision. How can that be, when he has, as I have\njust stated, abolished all the ceremonial part of the law of Abraham and\nMoses. Again, you say, the only reason given in the bible why the Sabbath\nwas ever kept was, that the Israelites might remember that God brought\nthem out of Egypt. Deut. v: 15. Your objection to the answer that was\ngiven by C. Stowe, and reiterating the question, as you have the above\nanswered one, and challenging all who desire to be under the law to prove\nthe contrary, in B. A. Dec. 2d, only goes for proof of your ignorance, or\nwilfull misunderstanding of God\u2019s commandment. If the fourth commandment\nin Exo. xx: 11, as she quoted and you dissent from it, is not the reason\ngiven why we should keep the Sabbath on the seventh day, as directed in\nthe ninth and tenth verses, then it would be impossible to understand the\nsimple word of the Lord. Because God has used the words \u201ccommand _thee_\u201d\nto keep the Sabbath, in Deut. v: 15, every other word or form of speech\nwhere God requires the keeping of the Sabbath, is made void by you. What\nis the signification of commands? Is it not to appoint, enjoin, and\nrequire by authority? Does it not mean the same as to say \u201cRemember the\nSabbath day and keep it holy.\u201d\u2014\u201c_Thou shalt not_ labor or do any work on\nthe Sabbath day.\u201d Exo. xx: 8-10. Once more, God says, \u201cYe shall keep the\nSabbath.\u201d Again, \u201cWherefore the children of Israel shall keep the\nSabbath\u2014for a perpetual covenant. _For_ in six days the Lord made heaven\nand earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.\u201d xxxi: 14,\n16, 17. You see the word command is also used in the 16th verse, for the\nfifth commandment, and because it is omitted in Exo. xx: 12, according to\nyour rule it is not valid. But it is not so\u2014God speaks as positively and\nunderstandingly when he says \u201c_ye shall_,\u201d as when he says \u201cI command\nyou.\u201d Again, you say\u2014\u201cIf Christ did not virtually annul the fourth\ncommandment when he began his public ministry, _then the Jews were_ RIGHT\nIN KILLING HIM AS A NOTORIOUS SABBATH BREAKER. He travelled about and did\nmuch work on the Sabbath.\u201d\n\nIn your second article you offer as proof Luke iv: 18-20. There certainly\nis no proof of the law\u2019s being annulled here. You then quote xvi: 16. \u201cThe\nlaw and the prophets were until John,\u201d &c. This in your whole argument for\nannulling the fourth commandment. Read the next verse, \u201cAnd it is easier\nfor heaven and earth to pass, than for one tittle of the law to fail.\u201d Now\ndon\u2019t a law fail when it passes away? Yes. How then can this law fail till\nheaven and earth passes? This was virtually showing how impossible it\nwould be for one tittle of the law of God to fail. Here Jesus reverts to\nthe seventh commandment, 18th verse, and shows that the law of the\ndecalogue was what he meant. But he does not say that any law was annulled\nhere. If you say that any part of the law of Moses was abolished here, you\nupset all the foundation that infidelity raises to overthrow the whole law\nof God. I wonder that all the second advent editors are not out against\nyou, for if this be true they have no more foundation for their no-law and\nno-commandments of God system to stand upon than many who are hung on the\ngallows for venturing to practice after such teaching, by violating the\neighth and sixth commandment. I am aware that their Judge Advocate, Joseph\nMarsh of Rochester, N. Y. has filed in his plea, (see Advent Harbinger,\nNov. 9th,) that _we_ are under the law of grace, the new testament, and\nnot the law of Moses, which he asserts embraced the ten commandments. Why\ndoes not the law of grace save thieves and murderers and liars from the\ngallows here, and eternal death hereafter. (Rev. xxi: 8.) Answer\u2014because\nthere is no _precept_ by which it can be done out of the law of\ncommandments, which was made for _all men_, Jew and Gentile. How would\nmurderers and robbers understand their sentence, viz. You are to be hung\nuntil you are dead for violating the law of the new testament, and may the\nLord have mercy on you for violating his law of grace. Stop, says the\nAmerican, you are bound to show me the precept. I ask where it is to be\nfound if the commandments are abolished? Oh, sir, but you have violated\nthe spirit of them. Well, but do tell me, sir, how I have violated the\nspirit of a law that you say was abolished and forever done away more than\neighteen hundred years ago. I am ignorant, I never professed religion, I\ndo not understand the meaning of grace in the new testament\u2014I pray you,\nsir, don\u2019t hang an innocent man.\n\nI have already shown what they tell us that their foundation is for the\nabolition of God\u2019s law; it is in Gal. ii.; Cor. iii, and Col. ii: 14-17.\nThe very day that our Lord was nailed to the cross\u2014(every writer that I\nremember to have read before on this subject begins at the cross, where\nPaul directs us to look for the abolition of offerings and oblation,\nMoses\u2019 ceremonial mode of worship)\u2014but you have attempted, without proof,\nto show that this was done three years before, and that without a shadow\nof proof that the fourth commandment, or any of them, was done away.\n\nIn this second article, you cite us for the same proof to Col. ii: 8-17.\nHow unfortunate for your argument; first that Christ annulled the _law_,\nand of course the Sabbath, when he began to preach, according to Luke iv:\n18-20, and xvi: 16. And then in another place quote Col. ii: 8-17, for the\nsame point of time. How could Christ annul any law twice. First, at his\npreaching and second at his death, three and a half years apart. Your\nargument is groundless and futile; therefore the uncalled for blasphemous\nlanguage of yours, that the Jews were right in killing him (the Son of\nGod) as a notorious Sabbath breaker, will fall on your guilty head. Hear\nthe proof: \u201cThey that forsake the law praise the wicked.\u2014He that turneth\naway his ear from hearing the law, even his _prayer_ shall be\n_abomination_.\u201d See also James ii: 10. Once more, the law that Jesus says\nshall not pass away, &c. Luke xvi: 17, is proved to be the same as in ch.\nx: 25-28. Jesus says, how readest thou? what is written in the law? He\nanswers by quoting the two great commandments in the law, in Matt. xxii:\n36-40\u2014the same as given in ch. v: 17-19, the keeping of which _then_ and\n_thenceforward_ would make them of great esteem in the reign of heaven.\nCompare also xix: 16-19 with Luke xviii: 18-20. If Jesus\u2019 promise of\neternal life by our keeping the law of\u2014or, and commandments fails us here,\nthen all his new testament teaching, the \u201claw of grace,\u201d so termed, will\nfail with it.\n\nIn conclusion, you call us foolish adventists, and wish to know who has\nbewitched us? Answer\u2014not the strictly keeping the holy Sabbath and other\ncommandments, but by listening to, or following such unrighteous and\ndeceptive teachings as you set forth. No marvel that you would like to\npreach it in all the sectarian synagogues in the land, if they would hear\nyou. Fallen Babylon is a more suitable place for such teaching than you\nwill ever find any where else. John describes their condition, Rev. xviii:\n2. But I pass. There is but one more remark of yours that I deem worthy of\na reply, and I should not most probably have reviewed your articles, only\nfor the defence of God\u2019s law and the suffering little flock, my brethren,\nwho are endeavoring to stand where John, in his vision, saw them at this\npresent hour, viz. In their patient waiting time, \u201ckeeping the\ncommandments of God and the faith of Jesus.\u201d\n\nYou say, \u201cIf a tree may be known by its fruits, we have a woeful tree\nhere. First, _shut door_; next, _seventh-day Sabbath_, or the bondage of\nthe law; next, Oh, it would be a shame to speak of those things which are\ndone of them in secret. God grant them repentance which is unto life.\u201d\nThat we believe in the shut door, and seventh-day Sabbath, is true; that\nwe wash one another\u2019s feet, as Jesus taught, and greet one another as Paul\nhas taught, is true of a great portion of those who keep the Sabbath and\nbelieve in the past and present truth. If you mean these, that it be a\nshame to speak of, we answer that we do it openly and avowedly, and teach\nand practice the same wherever we go, and prove it clearly by the\nscriptures. If there is any thing secretly practiced by us, it is as much\nunknown to the church as it is to you. The days of J. Turner and some\nother leaders of fanaticism in Maine, I trust, have about all subsided,\nsince they have crawled into the Laodocean state of the church. If you\nknow of any thing that we secretly practice in our worship or service of\nGod, that which is a shame to us, we are not unwilling for you to make it\nas public as you please. We have no faith nor fellowship for any such\nthing, neither have we any claim on them.\n\nAs the editor of the Bible Advocate and yourself are aiming at the one\nobject, viz. the abolition of God\u2019s holy Sabbath, and the treading down\nGod\u2019s truth seeking children; he is approbating and upholding you in your\ndisguise; we are therefore left to conjecture. From some marks which I\nhave seen under your two coverings, I am very strongly inclined to believe\nthat your real name is Jacob Weston of New Ipswich, N. H. If I am wrong,\nthen what I am about to state will not apply to Barnabas. If I am right in\nthe real character, then I shall discharge _another_ duty by exposing an\nenemy to both God and man, under the cloak of the apostle Barnabas, and\nbeneath that a sheepskin laced round the body of a WOLF, \u201cspeaking great\nwords against the most high, thinking to change times and laws.\u201d Your\nunrighteous thrusts, to put down and destroy God\u2019s honest children, who\nare endeavoring to live by every word of God, seems to be in perfect\nkeeping with your wayward, backslidden course. It is you, sir, that have\nbeen practising things in secret, which are a shame, and a disgrace, and a\nstigma upon the cause which you profess. Now lay off that apostolic cloak\nwhich you have taken to cover your deformed and deceptive arts. The reason\nwhy you have assumed this garb to oppose your opponent, C. Stowe, is to\n_some_ very obvious. You knew that she was acquainted with some of your\nungodly proceedings. You had not forgotten the false promises and\npretences which you had resorted to, first, to obtain her money, and then\nto keep her out of it. After repeated calls for it, you at length sent it\nto her, stating that the reason why you did not answer her letters, was,\nbecause you had not the money, and you did not write her, _because it\nwould subject her to pay the postage_, as _you could not_! and then in an\ninsulting manner to dictate a letter, teaching her how she should write to\nyou.\n\nAfter this squall had blown over and things had become more settled, a\nmysterious letter is presented to sister Stowe, signed Lydia B. Weston,\nsetting forth your helpless condition\u2014not actually asking for money,\nbecause it would not comport with her severe remark about \u201c_dying\nfirst_,\u201d\u2014but to draw still more on her sympathy, it states that her\nhusband had fell and lamed, or sprained his ancle, &c. &c. Sister S.,\nalthough about forty miles from this scene of suffering and distress,\nrequested a friend and neighbor of yours to ascertain what was needed, and\nshe was ready to assist, notwithstanding all the past. Your house was\nvisited and inquiry made for the lame man, but he was away. \u201cWell, you\nhave heard from Washington?\u201d Your wife. L. B. Weston, replied, \u201cshe did\nnot know how?\u201d [Another statement is, \u201chave you heard from Washington?\u201d\n\u201cNo.\u201d \u201cHave you not written to Washington?\u201d (or sister Stowe.) \u201cNo.\u201d] The\nmessenger was much surprised! \u201cWell, are you in need of any thing?.\u201d \u201cNo,\nwe have all that we need at present!\u201d and she then proceeded to enumerate\nall the comfortable things she had.\n\nFrom this it is evident that your wife was an entire stranger to this\nletter and its contents. Who wrote this forged letter? The capitals, it\nwas said by those who examined it, were J. Weston\u2019s, but the hand-writing\nwas rather finer than his. When you have been told of this your reply has\nbeen that sister Stowe _lies_ if she says that I wrote that letter! It is\nall in vain for you to reiterate such assertions. The question is, where\nis the person in New Ipswich, whose hand-writing will compare with this\nletter, and who is so interested in your behalf that they will even\ncontradict your wife, who manages your household affairs; and state\nfalsehoods, and then commit the high crime of FORGERY, by affixing her\nname to their assertions, to obtain for you what you did not need; and\namong other things, what could they mean by lying so about your lame leg?\nIf you can find this _daring_, loving, and insultingly magnanimous person\nin your neighborhood, do, for the sake of the community at large, expose\nhim, and let this sister and others whom you have maligned, have their\nreal name. And then if you go to Nelson again, to preach the doctrine of\nthe second advent by a notice in the Bible Advocate of July 30th, or Aug.\n5th, \u201cSquire Hale will not refuse you the use of the meeting house,\nbecause of said _forgery_.\u201d And possibly they may then sympathise with you\nmore in respect to your poverty in having but one feather bed in your\nhouse, &c. &c., when it is well known that you have three, and other\nthings in proportion.\n\nThat must have been rather a stirring exhortation that you gave the man\nwho called to see you, a short time since; that the Lord was coming in\nabout three weeks. Did you cite him to the Bible Advocate of Dec. 9, and\ntell him to read the caption that your old friend Timothy Cole had\npublished for you; that the _time for the Lord\u2019s coming was revealed_, and\nthat you felt so impressed with the truth of the above that you could not\nhold your peace any longer, &c. Well, possibly he did feel the force of\nthe truth, that the Lord would soon come, but it soon vanished from him\nwhen you read the note for twenty dollars, in his favor, which he now\npresented, and which you told him was not negotiable, and that there was\nno law by which he could collect it. Did you not feel rather singular, for\na professed ambassador of Christ, to be told by this man \u201chow strange it\nappeared to him that _you_ should go and put such a note on to an old\nwoman.\u201d [This is an old lady, partially deranged, who having a little\nmoney, finally consented to loan it to him on a note for interest.] It\nseems you had consulted a lawyer, to know whether it could be collected in\nher life time for her.\n\nAre you aware of the heinousness of these things? Did you ever read the\nlife of the pious Dr. Dod of England, who was hung for _forgery_; people\nno doubt liked his preaching. I know a professed minister, who, not many\nyears since, was elected pastor of a church, with but two or three\ndissenting votes, in a place situated in North latitude 41\u00b0 33\u2019, and\nlongitude 70\u00b0 53\u2019 W., who was told by one of his members, in a church\nmeeting, that he had committed the high crime of _forgery_, which he did\nnot attempt to deny. The member for daring to utter this and connected\nthings, was suspended from their communion until he should make ample\nsatisfaction. The minister was retained, and a great revival, by his\nexertions, immediately followed, and numbers were added to _their_ church.\nSo, you see, ministers are not to be known by their great preaching and\nrevivals. \u201cYe shall know them by their fruits.\u201d So, I trust, the second\nadvent believers will know you hereafter. They will also know that God\nnever employed a righteous man to stigmatize and attempt to make void his\nSabbath and commandments. That is, and ever has been, the work of \u201cthe\nDevil and his angels.\u201d \u201cSurely the Lord God will do nothing but he reveals\nhis secrets unto his servants, the prophets.\u201d Amos. But \u201che that turneth\naway his ear from hearing the _law_, even his prayer shall be\nabomination.\u201d All men are liable to err and make mistakes, but when\npersevered in, under disguise, they are to be rebuked.\n\n\n\n\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \u201cADVENT HARBINGER.\u201d\n\n\nSIR:\u2014After your repeated and unsuccessful attempts to stigmatize, put\ndown, demolish, and forever abolish the TEN WORDS, the law and\ncommandments of the living God, the only foundation for the bible, you\ncome forth in the A. H. of Nov. 9th, and say \u201cWe are not under the law (of\nMoses,) but under (the law of) grace, the _New Testament_, and now all we\nwant to know is, does the NEW TESTAMENT _either by precept or example_\nrequire us _to keep_ ANY day as a SABBATH?... We do not want your\ninferences, but plain, direct NEW TESTAMENT testimony; nothing else will\ndo in a case of this character and importance.\u201d Your term, law of Moses,\naccording to _all_ your teachings on this subject, includes the law of\ncommandments. We have given it to you in our work on the Sabbath, and\nagain in the Way Marks, pp. 76-78. Why do you still continue to demand\nproof, until you have found out some new method to explain those texts\naway. It is evident that your object on this point is to confuse the minds\nof your readers and not give them the clear word of God. What would Christ\nand his apostles have done for proof from the old testament, if your new\nrestricted rule had been laid before them? and you had told them seven\nmonths previous, (April 28th,) that the law of commandments, when they\nwere abolished, were incorporated into the new testament, or _law of\nChrist_. And now we are under the _law of grace_. It appears to me that\nJesus would have replied as he did on one occasion, \u201cGet thee behind me\nSatan.\u201d Is the law of Christ and the law of grace, synonymous terms? or\nare you so privileged now in the high station which you have assumed, that\nyou can change the name of _your_ NEW LAW once in seven months, and make\nChrist and grace the same. It is impossible for any man to depart from the\nclear word and abide in the truth. Call the commandments of God what you\nwill, and incorporate them where you will, you are bound, as I have told\nyou before, to show the precept, (i. e. how they read,) and then if you\nrefer us to the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and the Revelation of\nJohn, you will only point us directly to the ten commandments of God,\nwhich as clearly proves that they are not, nor ever have been abolished,\nany more than the prophecies of Isaiah, Jeremiah or Ezekiel; and just so\nsure as Jesus has spoken the truth, that eternal life is obtained by the\nkeeping of them, and that James wrote by inspiration, we are to be judged\nby them; and not by what you have misnamed them, the _law of grace_. How\ncan the commandments of God be abolished, and yet the keeping of them give\nus an entrance into the city. Rev. xxii: 14. And yet if they are\nabolished, as you assert, who can ever know when they fail in one precept\nor when they keep the whole? Your attempt to incorporate God\u2019s law,\nafter\u2014as you say\u2014it has been abolished, and now enforce it without a\nprecept, because it is all incorporated in the new testament, is a\nthousand times more inconsistent than a temporal millenium. \u201cGrace is the\ngift of God.\u201d Then, according to your logic, this is the law that we are\nnow under. How shall we enumerate all the gifts of God, and incorporate\nthem into the new testament? One thing I know, you will never mend the law\nof God: It is as immutable as the sun in the heavens! and it would be far\neasier work for you and all of like faith to blot out that luminary than\nto prove that one jot or tittle of the ten commandments had failed by\nbeing changed or abolished. I intend to prove this from the new testament\nas I pass on, and if you and your adherents will still misrepresent the\nplain teaching and lead others to do so, then the words of Jesus will\nsurely condemn you, and you \u201cwill be in no esteem in the reign of heaven.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nFirst Pillar For No Sabbath.\n\n\nThere are four Pillars in the temple of your no-Sabbath, no-commandment\nsystem, which we are always referred to as positive proof that you are\nright. Now if I can prove from the new testament that they and all others\nthat you may present, are only your \u201c_inferences_,\u201d (and you say you don\u2019t\nwant any,) what will you do? Further\u2014these pillars of yours, be it\n_forever remembered and never forgotten_, are fixed at the day of the\ncrucifixion of our Lord. Say, if you like, it was in A.D. 33. This is the\npoint where you have to bring your scripture to prove any thing of the\nkind, i. e., if you go one week on either side of the death of our blessed\nLord, your arguments or pillars, all fall to the ground. Now, by this\nplain rule, we will try the first two no-Sabbath texts: First\u20141 Rom. xiv:\n\u201cOne man esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day\n_alike_; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that\nregardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord.\u201d Read the whole chapter;\nPaul\u2019s whole argument here is against their feasts, and this of course\nincluded their feast days, which some esteemed and others did not.\n\u201cDestroy not him with thy _meat_ for whom Christ died,\u201d says Paul, 15th\nverse. Compare this with the first, third, and last four verses, where he\ncloses with \u201cHe that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not\nof faith,\u201d 23d verse, and then tell me if you can, what other day or days\nis here brought to view than feast days, as in Lev. xxiii chapter, which\nHosea said were to cease. This same chapter, 3d and 38th verses,\npositively designates and separates the Sabbath of the Lord God from all\nthese feast Sabbaths, or days; also Num. xxviii: 9. Now as God\u2019s Sabbath\nwas not a feast Sabbath, it was impossible to connect it with these. And\nthat is not all\u2014it is not even alluded to here\u2014only guessed at from among\nthe feast days. Once set such a rule as this at work and there is not a\nlaw in christendom that would restrain men. For all will have one day for\na holy, or holiday in the week. Now give them, by your bible rule, their\nchoice, and I don\u2019t believe that Satan himself would bring them to order.\nOh, but we have a law that the first-day shall be regarded as the Sabbath.\nWell, that is what you now contend for, and so does almost all\nchristendom, and still it is an unrighteous and an unscriptural law,\nbecause the first day is not, nor never was, the Sabbath. You have no\nright by this rule to fix on any day, and yet every body would be right if\nevery day was kept. But, you may say, it means we shall have no day for\nthe Sabbath. It does not read so. It says, \u201clet every man be persuaded in\nhis own mind,\u201d and if that were the case, what kind of order would there\nbe in God\u2019s house. I ask if there be a rational being on earth that for a\nmoment would believe that God ever intended to give the whole human family\nsuch a choice as this, after he had required them to keep the Sabbath day.\nNo, he is a God of order, and he sanctified and set apart the seventh day\nfor man and beast. Does not the beast require rest now as much as he did\n1900 years ago? Who is to advocate for them, if man does not? The great\nmass of professed christians are insisting on the first day for one of\nthese days, and it is not at all likely that they would ever refer to this\ntest for this purpose were it not to destroy the idea of a seventh-day\nSabbath. See work on the Sabbath, pp. 11-12. This subject is continued\nfrom the xiiith chapter, where the apostle had been enforcing the\ncommandments, and one is equally binding as the other, except the fourth,\nwhich is more insisted upon than the rest. This letter is dated Corinthus,\nA.D. 60.\n\n\n\n\nSecond Pillar For No Sabbath.\n\n\nCol. ii: 14-17.\u2014\u201cBlotting out the hand writing of ordinances that was\nagainst us; which was contrary to us, taking it out of the way; nailing it\nto his cross.\u201d Now Paul says it was the hand-writing of ordinances that\nwas blotted out. You say it was the Sabbath, because he further says, \u201cLet\nno man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy\nday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days, which are a shadow of\nthings to come,\u201d &c. Now I say that the Sabbath of the Lord God is not\nincluded in this text. 1st. Because it never did belong to the\nhand-writing of ordinances. 2d. It never is called an ordinance in the\nscriptures; it is a commandment. 3d. God\u2019s Sabbath never was taken out of\nour way because it was against us. Jesus says it was made for us, (for\nman.) Then pray tell me, if you can, why Jesus has taken away from us the\nvery thing, (the Sabbath) he had said was made for us? You see this is\nimpossible; but he did take away at the very hour that he yielded up his\nlife, the ceremonial worship of sacrifice and oblation, because _his_\nblood was now shed once for all for the whole world, therefore the\nshedding of bullocks blood, here at this hour, ceased forever; see also\nHeb. x: 1-10, particularly the 9th verse. The angel Gabriel\u2019s testimony is\ndirectly to this point; Dan. ix: 27. Therefore the mode of worshipping\nGod, in the law of Moses, ceased forever. But all of this no more affected\nGod\u2019s code of laws, the ten commandments, than the shining of the sun\nwould upon the inhabitants of Massachusetts after he had gone down below\nthe western horizon. The \u201chand-writing of ordinances\u201d is what Moses wrote\nwith his hand in a book and put it into the ark with the tables of stone:\nwhich tables were not the hand-writing of either God, or man, but written\nby the finger of God. Deut. xxxi: 25-26. Neither can it ever be proved\nthat God\u2019s law on these tables of stone, was a shadow\u2014it is a substance.\nPaul says the things that were nailed to the cross here, were shadows; see\n17th verse. Now if the Lord\u2019s Sabbath, the fourth commandment, was taken\nout here, and forever erased from the tables of stone\u2014_where is the\nevidence?_ Further, if it was a shadow, as you say, would not all the\nother nine commandments be shadows too? See if you can make the first and\nsecond ones, shadows; if you can, the worship of idols is just as valid as\nthe worship of God; and so of the third\u2014where would be the penalty of\ntaking God\u2019s name in vain, or to steal, or murder, or commit adultery? You\nsee the idea itself is ridiculous. I know you say the spirit of them is as\nbinding as ever. I ask how are we to know what the spirit of any thing is,\nwithout the precept (the letter) to guide us? It is impossible for any\nhuman being to know that it is wrong to worship idols and bow down to them\nunless it read so in the scriptures. If the apostle has taught it so, he\nhas quoted from the decalogue. Thus you see the commandments can no more\nbe abolished than salvation. In the 20-22d verses, Paul further explains,\nand says, \u201cWhy are ye subject to ordinances which are to perish?\u201d Why\nperish? because \u201cthey are after the doctrines and commandments of men.\u201d\n\u201cTouch not, taste not, handle not.\u201d Now, if these are not the ordinance of\nthe ceremonial law, the hand-writing of Moses, they are nothing; see also\nEph. ii: 15, and Heb. vii: 16. The holy day, new moon and Sabbath days\nwere their holy convocation, which, with the new moon and Sabbaths is the\nsame that is connected with their feasts, as in Rom. xiv, and as\ndistinctly separate, as I have shown in Lev. xxiii: 3, 38, and Num.\nxxviii: 9. Now I say God\u2019s law containing the Sabbath is not even\nmentioned here. Their Sabbath days, and not God\u2019s Sabbath days is here\nabolished; as Hosea said they should be, ii: 11. It would be far more\nreasonable to assert that Paul had abolished all the ordinances in 20-22\nverses. But who undertakes to say that baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper are\nabolished here. Nobody. Why? Because neither of them are the hand-writing\nof ordinances, but they are equally as much so, and as certainly made for\nus as the Sabbath is. Jesus says it was made for man. You say it was made\nfor the Jews only. Shall the scriptures decide this, \u201cMAN that is born of\na woman is of few days and full of trouble.\u201d \u201cMAN dieth and wasteth away;\nyea, MAN giveth up the ghost and where is he\u2014So MAN lieth down and riseth\nnot till the heavens be no more.\u201d\u2014Job. \u201cAnd as it is appointed unto MAN\nonce to die, but after this the judgment.\u201d\u2014Paul. Now just as certain as\nthe Jews and Gentiles are the \u201cman\u201d alluded to here, just in the same\nsense and no other, is he alluded to by Jesus in Mark ii: 27\u2014\u201cThe Sabbath\nwas made for MAN,\u201d\u2014Jew and Gentile, for every living human being.\nTherefore it is impossible, yea it is a contradiction of terms to say that\nthe Sabbath of the Lord God, which was made for man, just as much as the\nday of judgment is to judge him, was taken out of his way, because it was\n_contrary_ to him, and against him, or that the Sabbath is an ordinance or\na shadow, but all the seven Jewish convocation Sabbaths that were nailed\nto the cross, were shadows, as in Heb. x: 1-10. The woman was also made\nfor man, in the same sense. See how your rule will work here. This letter\nis from Rome, A. D. 64.\n\n\n\n\nThird Pillar For No-Sabbath, No-Commandments.\n\n\nGal. ii.-vi. chapters. Here we are told that the whole law and\ncommandments are abolished. I say the man was never yet born that can\nprove it. You say \u201c_we want none of your inferences_.\u201d Neither do we want\nyours, unless you can back them up by scripture testimony. Paul begins\nwith the Gospel; in his second chapter he brings up the law of\ncircumcision, and goes on to show that it is abolished. Just look at the\n7th and 8th verses, where he begins his argument, and then 11-14th. His\ncontroversy with Peter respecting this point and eating, meets; then the\n16th, 18th and 21st verses show again most clearly that he is contrasting\nthe Gospel of Christ with this law of meats and circumcision. He now\npasses through the 3d chapter, (so much relied on for the abolition of all\n_law_,) without intimating any other law whatever. In the 4th chapter, 4th\nverse, he says, God sent forth his son, made, or born under the law. What\nlaw? Answer\u2014the law of Moses. There is not an intimation of the law of\ncommandments here; neither is there an intimation in God\u2019s law, relating\nto Jesus, but there is in Moses\u2019. In the 10th verse he begins again, and\nsays \u201cyea, observe days and months and times and years.\u201d These are the\nsame feast days that I have been treating of in the two first Pillars,\nviz. Rom. xiv. and Col. ii., for when he comes to the 21st verse, he says\nagain, \u201ctell me ye that desire to be under the _law_, do ye not hear the\nlaw.\u201d What is it? Why, Abraham had two sons, one by his bond maid, Hagar,\nthe other by Sarah, his wife. These two women represent the two covenants.\nHagar represents mount Sinai, where God gave the first covenant. Hagar\nalso answers to the present Jerusalem, now in bondage; Sarah represents\nthe second covenant, (which gives entrance into the) _New_ Jerusalem. See\n9.\n\nIn the fifth chapter he begins again with circumcision, 2d and 3d verses.\nIn the 4th verse he says, \u201cWhosoever of you are justified by the _law_ are\nfallen from grace.\u201d This is the law of circumcision; see 6th and 11th\nverses: \u201cIf I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution.\u201d\nNow see the contrast at the close of his argument. Here is the law of God;\nsee 14th verse: \u201cFor _all_ the law is fulfilled in one word, even this,\nthou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.\u201d This was his very expression to\nthe Romans, four years previous; see xiii: 9. Here he has cited them to\nthe second table of stone in God\u2019s law, in respect to their neighbor,\nwhich is alone, the clear meaning; and we are saved by \u201ckeeping the\ncommandments of God and faith of Jesus.\u201d\u2014Rev. xii: 12; xxii: 14. Paul did\nnot stop to explain about these two covenants, but merely alluded to them\nto show the two entirely different modes of worship under the two\ndispensations. His letter to the Hebrews six years afterwards, explains,\n\u201cNow the first covenant had _ceremonies_ of _divine_ service and a worldly\nsanctuary,\u201d ix: 1. Now the covenant ITSELF was in the ark; see 4th verse.\nNow these rites and ceremonies which stood in meats and drinks, &c. were\ncarnal ordinances, a figure for the time then present, until the\nreformation, or coming of the new covenant. Not a syllable about the\nfourth commandment in 4th verse being a figure, or ordinance or ceremony,\nor being done away. Why? Because in the preceding chapter, 6-10th verses,\nhe shows is the new or second covenant, which was to succeed the first,\nand Jesus was to be the mediator of it. Now the first covenant was the ten\ncommandments, with ceremonies, &c. The second covenant is (_my laws_) the\nsame ten commandments, (not as before, on tables of stone,) but in our\nminds and on our hearts; 10th verse. Connected with this is the testimony\nof Jesus Christ\u2014proof, Rev. xii: 17; xix: 10, and xiv: 12. This is the\nNew, or Gospel Covenant, which Jesus Christ came to confirm. Then all that\nwas nailed to the cross was the ceremonial law, the Jewish mode of\nworshipping God. The first covenant the law of God, is here transcribed\nfrom the tables of stone and placed on our hearts; see Rom. ii: 15: Heb.\nviii: 10. This entirely changes the mode of worship, and shows us \u201cwithout\nfaith it is impossible to please God.\u201d If the law of God is not the same\nin both covenants, with Jew and Gentile, tell me if you can the chapter\nand verse for the second, or new law of God. It is the very same that\nJesus had given in Matt. xxii: 39; the last six commandments. Here he\ncloses this chapter by contrasting the works of the flesh with the fruits\nof the spirit, and then in the 6th chapter, 12th, 13th and 15th verses, he\nalludes again to circumcision, and says, in 15th verse, \u201cFor in Christ\nJesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision,\u201d &c.,\nshowing conclusively that the great burthen of his argument from first to\nlast, was to abolish circumcision and vindicate God\u2019s law, instead, as you\nand your adherents will have it, abolish the commandments in the law. I\nsay then in the 5th chapter, 14th verse, he has positively taught us that\nthe law of God was untouched in his argument. Suppose we take his letter\nto the Romans, to explain how he sustains this law. \u201cIf there be any other\ncommandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt\nlove thy neighbor as thyself.\u201d xiii: 9. \u201cTherefore love is the fulfilling\nof the law.\u201d In the first place he is here showing us our duty to our\nneighbor, (not to God), 8-10 verses\u2014for he has quoted only five of the\ncommandments from the second table of stone. Will you say that because he\nomitted the fifth one, it is abolished; see his letter to the Ephesians,\nfour years after this: \u201cHonor thy father and thy mother, which is the\nfirst commandment, with promise,\u201d vi: 2. Now Paul has here quoted from the\ntables of stone, and this is proof positive that these six are not\nabolished. But because he has not quoted the first four, will you say\n_they_ are abolished? If you say they are, then you make void the\nSaviour\u2019s words in Matt. xxii: 37, 38; and also Paul\u2019s in the 7th chapter,\n12th verse, where he says \u201cthe law is holy and the commandments holy, just\nand good.\u201d Again, because Jesus, in Matt. v: 19, 21, 27, 33, only quoted\nthe 3d, 6th and 7th commandments, are the other seven abolished? If so,\nhow strange that he should add three more, respecting love to our\nneighbor, in chapter xix: 18, 19, viz. the 5th, 8th and 9th. And in the\n15th chapter quote only one. Further, because he never mentioned the\nfourth commandment separately, you would have us believe there is none\u2014he\nabolished it. Then, by the same rule he abolished the first, second, and\ntenth, for he has not mentioned them. In this case Paul has taught heresy,\nfor he has mentioned the tenth commandment twice in Romans. Paul nowhere\nspeaks of the first four commandments, but he quotes the other six. James\nonly quotes two, the sixth and seventh, for his _perfect royal law of\nliberty_, by which man is to be judged; but that we might not\nmisunderstand that he meant what he said, that it was a _perfect law_,\nincluding the whole ten, he declares that \u201cif we fail with respect to one\nprecept, we become guilty of all.\u201d Here you, and all of like faith, must\nsee the fallacy of your reasoning, which is, that because the fourth\ncommandment has not been distinctly expressed, then there is no Sabbath. I\nsay, by your rule, it is just as clear that Jesus and Paul never taught us\nthat we should not worship images, and bow down to idols, for they have\nnever quoted us the precept. But they both have taught us the whole law\nand commandments; see Matt. xxii: 36-40; Luke x: 25-28; Rom. vii: 12; 1st\nCor. vii: 19. The reason, no doubt, why Jesus never quoted the 1st, 2d, 3d\nand 4th commandments separately was because he never had occasion to use\nthem for an argument with his hearers. Now this certainly explains Paul\u2019s\nmeaning in Gal. v: 14, \u201cFor all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in\nthis, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.\u201d That is\u2014this is the law\nrespecting our duty to one another, as Jesus has taught us in Matt. xxii.\nThis, then, is the _law_ from the decalogue. Paul says this law is\nfulfilled by keeping it, while that which was added to the law (or\ncovenant) is abolished; see Heb. ix. Then here the law of God is\nestablished, and not, as you say, abolished. This letter is dated at Rome,\nA.D. 58.\n\n\n\n\nFourth And Last Pillar For No-Sabbath, No-Commandments.\n\n\n2d Cor. iii. Here a host of second advent believers join in with you, and\nlabor to prove that Paul has certainly and positively abolished the\ncommandments of God. Yes, one of your old correspondents, G. Needham, of\nAlbany, has publicly declared to the world that God told him so. Now if I\nprove him to have uttered a positive falsehood, I suppose he will still be\nconsidered in good standing, as a second advent lecturer and coadjutor in\ncarrying forward this work of heresy. If God ever told him any thing about\nthis text, he did not contradict Paul, who spake by the Holy Ghost. The\nprincipal verses to sustain this heresy, are 7, 8, 11, 13, 14th, \u201cBut if\nthe ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious,\nso that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of\nMoses for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away,\nhow shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?... For if\nthat which is done away is glorious, much more that which remaineth is\nglorious.... And as Moses which put a veil over his face, that the\nchildren of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is\nabolished. But their minds were blinded, for until this day remaineth the\nsame veil, untaken away in the reading of the old testament, which veil is\ndone away in Christ.\u201d Now every bible student must admit that Paul was\ncontrasting the ministration of the Jewish nation with that of his own,\nthe Gospel ministration, (11th v.) under the two dispensations. If Moses\u2019\nministry was glorious, then is the Gospel much more so. Now that which was\nto be done away was not the _decalogue itself_, the ten commandments, but\nthe ministration of it, which was emblematically illustrated by the glory\nof Moses\u2019 countenance, which was only for the time being. This clause\nrefers expressly to the glory of his countenance, and not to the glory of\nthe law on the tables of stone. So also the clause, \u201cthat which is\nabolished,\u201d does not refer to the decalogue, but to the ministration of\nMoses, including what he writes to the Heb. ix: 9-11, and x: 1-10; see\nparticularly 9th verse: \u201cHe taketh away the first that he may establish\nthe second.\u201d How? Answer\u2014\u201cI will put my law (the same law of the ten\ncommandments) in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts.\u201d viii:\n10, 5-9. Again, \u201cwe are not without law to God, but under the law to\nChrist.\u201d This certainly is the same law and so is the following, \u201cDo we\nmake void the law through faith? God forbid ye, we _establish_ the law.\u201d\nIt is impossible for this to be the law of ceremonies in Moses\u2019\nministration, for that was nailed to the cross, certainly twenty-five\nyears before. Here then it is plain, as in Heb. ix: 4, that the tables of\nstone, on which was the whole law of God, remained unmoved, to be written\non our hearts. No other law of God can be found for this purpose. The 14th\nverse says, \u201cwhich veil was done away in Christ.\u201d Again, if the\ncommandments were done away here, how could those \u201cwho teach them be of\ngreat esteem in the reign of heaven;\u201d and how could they teach them\nwithout knowing the words from the decalogue? \u201cThe law of grace and the\nlaw of Christ\u201d would darken counsel without knowledge. If the tables of\nstone were done away here, where are the commandments referred to so many\ntimes in the new testament for us to keep, and how useless for Christ to\ncome at the first advent and write them in our hearts, if they were not to\nbe kept. Now this epistle is dated at Phillippi, A.D. 60; twenty-seven\nyears after the crucifixion.\n\nThe date of the other three Pillars, as stated, are, 1st, Rom. xiv: 5, 6,\nCorinthus, A.D. 60. 2d, Col. ii: 14-17, Rome, A.D. 64. 3d, Gal. ii-vi.,\nRome, A.D. 58. Now remember what I stated before, that if the commandments\nor Sabbath ever were abolished, the proof is contained in these four\nprincipal texts or Pillars, and it was all done at the crucifixion or\ndeath of Jesus; see Col. ii: 11, \u201cnailing it to the cross,\u201d (in A.D. 33).\nNow Paul\u2019s first letter to the Corinthians was dated at the same place one\nyear before his second letter, A.D. 59. Here he says, chapter vii: 19,\n\u201ccircumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the _keeping_\nof the _commandments_ of God.\u201d Again, we will now go to the chapter to\nwhich you exultingly point your readers, for the abolition of this same\nlaw and commandments, viz. Rom. vii: 6, \u201cBut now we are delivered from the\nlaw,\u201d &c. What law? Answer\u2014the very same that you have had to make your\nfour Pillars of, viz. the law of Moses, the Jewish ritual. \u201cWhat shall we\nsay then, is the law sin?\u201d [You say it is.] Paul says, \u201cGod forbid,\u201d and\nhe quotes the tenth commandment to prove it; 7th verse, and then in the\n12th directs us to the whole law of God, thus\u2014\u201cWHEREFORE THE LAW IS HOLY,\nAND THE COMMANDMENTS HOLY, JUST AND GOOD.\u201d Now, I say, here is testimony\nthat all the opposers of God\u2019s law cannot impeach, and it utterly\ndemolishes and overthrows every idea that has been presented for the last\nfifteen hundred years against the whole ten commandments and law of God.\nIt _nails_ the _point down twenty-seven years_ after the Jewish rites and\nceremonials in the law of Moses were nailed to the cross, as you and all\nof your faith say it was, and fully and clearly sustains all the\nscriptural arguments herein presented, as in Rom. iii: 31; xiii: 8-10,\nsame year, and Gal. v: 14, two years before, and Eph. vi: 2, six years\nafter. You may object to these dates. If they could be altered and carried\nback twenty years, it would not help your case, for _without any date_, a\nchild might know that Paul was not even converted to Christianity until\nyears after the ceremonial law was nailed to the cross.\n\nYou may contradict Paul if you will, and call out all your _professed_\nsecond advent adherents and brethren, (whom you say will not see much of\nany difference on this subject after they have examined the _new\ntestament_,) and they will not in the least strengthen your arguments\nunless G. Needham should come _out_ again and publicly declare that God\nalso told him that Paul\u2019s testimony respecting his law and commandments,\nwas not to be credited. And this he can as readily establish as he can his\nfirst blasphemous assertion. You might still go on and contradict James\u2019\n_perfect, royal law of liberty_, whose testimony is to the same point and\nin the same year, and tell John the beloved disciple also, whose testimony\nis thirty years beyond James\u2019, that he ought to have called his _old_\ncommandment, which he received from the FATHER, \u201cwhich ye have heard from\nthe _beginning_,\u201d (1st John ii: 7, and 2d epistle, 4-6 verses.) \u201c_The law\nof grace._\u201d because that would eventually be the right name that you\nshould give them in 1847, after you had been designated _one_ of the two\ngreat reformers in the world, to give light on the second coming of\nChrist, and so make him and James, who had heard their Lord declare that\nhe had kept his Father\u2019s commandments; and Luke and Matthew testifying to\nhis declaration that \u201cthe law and the prophets hung upon them,\u201d and that\nthe teaching and keeping of them would ensure \u201c_great esteem_,\u201d and\n\u201c_eternal life in the reign of heaven_,\u201d he would most likely have cited\nyou to the epistle again, and said, read your _sentence_: \u201cHe that saith I\nknow him and keepeth not his commandment is a LIAR _and the_ TRUTH _is\nnot_ IN HIM.\u201d\n\nI should not be at all surprised if you called all this _inferential_,\nirrelevant _New Testament_ testimony, because your grand object is to\ndestroy the seventh-day Sabbath. If the Sabbath is not to be found in the\ncommandments of God, then where is it to be found?\n\nIf those to whom I dedicate this work believe that I have proved beyond\ncontroversy that the commandments are valid and still to be kept, as the\nRevelation also teaches, xii: 17; xiv: 12; xxii: 14; then they are a\n_perfect law_, and cannot fail in one point without risking our salvation.\nThen the seventh-day Sabbath is included or the testimony of Jesus and his\nApostle would be false. Again, there is but one Sabbath that was ever\nrequired to be kept, in the bible, and that is\n\n_THE_ SABBATH.\n\nJesus kept _the_ Sabbath, and when he was giving them the signs of his\ncoming and the end of the world, he pointed them at least thirty-five\nyears after his death, to the very same Sabbath. On the 29th of June last,\nyou replied to J. Gifford\u2019s inquiries on this point, and perverted the\nword, and called THE, _their Sabbath_. You also say, \u201cThe day before the\nresurrection was the Jewish Sabbath, which Christ _kept_ in the tomb. When\nthat Sabbath ended, the law of types ended, and of course the _typical_\nSabbath ceased\u2014a new dispensation commenced on the first day, which should\nbe observed in commemoration of the death of Christ, until he come.\u201d Now\nlook at your _zig-zag_ course. First, that the whole law with the\ndecalogue was nailed to the cross. But here, to get rid of this brother\u2019s\nargument, about the Sabbath being kept the day before the resurrection,\nand after the crucifixion, you stretch out the Sabbath in the fourth\ncommandment about twenty-seven hours, (as long as you wanted it,) and then\nput it back with the other nine that died the day before. Here too, you\nsay, \u201cended the law types, and of course the typical Sabbath,\u201d and then\nabout twelve hours after a new dispensation commenced. Your argument looks\nlike this\u2014the Jewish dispensation ended at the preaching of Christ. Oh no,\nit was at his death\u2014where the law of Moses, with the commandments of God,\nwere _all_ nailed to the cross. But stop again\u2014the Sabbath did not end,\nnor the types, until twenty-seven hours after; and finally\u2014come to think\nof it\u2014the dispensation did not end until about twelve hours after that,\nwhen Christ arose. Surely J. Turner, with all his mesmeric influence,\ncould not do much better. How much better to follow Paul in Col. ii: 14,\n\u201cblotting out the hand-writing of ordinances (the ceremonial law) and\nnailing it to the cross\u201d on Friday, the 14th day of the first month,\n\u201cFINISHED\u201d at 3 o\u2019clock, P. M.\u2014John xix: 30; Mark xv: 33, 37. Again, you\nsay \u201cthe Jews were so tenacious about the strict observance of _their_\nSabbath, that they would have prevented the disciples fleeing on that day,\nhad they made an attempt to do so; hence for their own salvation, Christ\ntaught his disciples to pray that their flight might not be on that day,\nnot because it would be wrong to _save their lives_ on that day, which the\nSabbatarian view seems to teach.\u201d In the first place Christ never\nintimated a word about _their_ Sabbath; it was THE Sabbath, the same that\nhe had kept. Your sophistical argument about their flight, &c. &c. touches\nnot the main point. Christ did here recognize THE Sabbath of the Lord\nthirty-five years beyond the time which you say it was abolished. At that\ntime, if it never did before, as you have it, it belonged as much to the\nGentile as the Jew, unless you make another attempt to stretch out the\nJewish dispensation thirty-five years to cover it. His disciples certainly\nkept the Sabbath, the day after his death, and you cannot prove by the\nscriptures that the disciples ever held a meeting but once of an evening\non the first day. Therefore you must be very much pushed for a Sabbath, to\ncontinually call that day one, as you do, at the same time reiterating,\n\u201c_we want none of your inferences!_\u201d Luke also recognizes THE Sabbath\ntwenty years beyond the resurrection, and shows that Paul kept it, and the\nGentiles also.\u2014Acts xiii: 42, 44. You attempt to destroy all this proof\ntoo, because you say this was the Jews\u2019 day for worship, and Paul could\nget a better hearing. Don\u2019t you see that the Gentiles invited him to\npreach to them\u2014they kept the same day, 44th verse. See xvi: 13; here they\nare by the river\u2019s side. Paul\u2019s manner was to reason with them on the\nSabbath; see xvii: 2, and xviii: 4, 11. So was it the custom of the\nSaviour; Mark vi: 2, and Luke iv: 16, 31. Now if all this is not _New\nTestament_ evidence enough for _honest_ believers, in the absence of any\nother testimony for an abolition, or change of the Sabbath, then it is\nbecause men would rather pervert the word of God than keep it.\n\n\n\n\nGod\u2019s Code of Laws in the New Testament.\n\n\n\u201cWhy do ye transgress the commandments of God.\u201d\u2014Matthew xv: 3.\n\n\u201cWhat is written in the law, how readest thou?\u201d\u2014Luke x: 26.\n\n\u201cEven as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments.\u201d\u2014John xv: 10.\n\n\u201cYea, we establish the law.\u201d\u2014Rom. iii: 31.\n\n\u201cThe law is holy and the commandment is holy.\u201d\u2014Rom. vii: 12.\n\n\u201cNot subject to the law of God.\u201d\u2014Rom. viii: 7, also xiii: 8-10.\n\n\u201cBut the commandments of God.\u201d\u20141st Cor. vii: 19; 1st Tim. i: 8.\n\n\u201cFor whoever shall keep the whole law,\u201d &c.\u2014James ii: 10.\n\n\n\n\nMoses\u2019 Code of Laws, by Jesus and His Apostles.\n\n\n\u201cThat is written in _their_ law, they hated,\u201d &c.\u2014John xv: 25.\n\n\u201cJustified by the law of Moses.\u201d\u2014Acts xiii: 39.\n\n\u201cIt is written in _your_ law, I said, ye are gods?\u201d\u2014John x: 34.\n\n\u201cHave ye not read in the book of Moses.\u201d\u2014Mark xii: 26.\n\n\u201cJudged according to _our_ law.\u201d\u2014Acts xxiv: 6.\n\n\u201cOut of the law of Moses.\u201d\u2014xxvii: 23, and xxi: 20, 22, 24, 28.\n\n\u201cAnd _your_ law.\u201d\u2014Acts xviii: 15. Paul.\n\nThis and much more could be given to show the clear distinction that Jesus\nand his Apostles and the Jews always kept up between the law of God and\nthe law of Moses. This is why so much confusion pervades our minds, when\nwe read Paul to the Cor., Rom., Gal., and Col. If we carefully read his\nletter to the Hebrews, his Jewish brethren, we shall see a clearer\ndistinction. In the 7th chapter, and first part of the 8th, he describes\nthe priesthood; the change to Christ in his sanctuary in the heavens, and\nthen the second covenant, the law of God written on our hearts. 9th\nchapter explains the first covenant, with its appendages, and the change.\n10th chapter shows that these appendages never could make us perfect. 9th\nverse speaks of the change; 16th verse of the law of God again, and the\n28th of the law of Moses. These four chapters will give more light\nrespecting the two codes of laws; how one is abolished, except the types,\nand the other established, than all that ever I read from the pens of\nthese no-commandment professors. May God help us to see the clear light.\n\n\n\n\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE BIBLE ADVOCATE.\n\n\nSIR\u2014I was very glad when learned that your columns were to be opened for\nthe discussion of the Sabbath question, for I thought if you would allow\nthis subject to be fairly brought out, God\u2019s holy law would be vindicated\nand more strictly revered; but I soon see this was, and would be, an\nunequal warfare. To prevent any one\u2019s writing but C. Stowe of N. H., you\nsay her argument will cover, or about cover, the whole ground in favor of\nthe Jewish, or seventh-day Sabbath, and then no one else, until some one\nhad replied against it, &c. This was very well, but I soon perceived that\nyou did not keep the ship on her course. The first part of C. Stowe\u2019s\narticle, to cover the whole ground, has never yet appeared, and should it\ncome forth at this late hour of the discussion, it would probably avail as\nmuch as you mean it shall in its isolated state. But to prevent what you\ndid publish for her, in the same paper, (Sept. 2d,) you gave your own\nunscriptural view, to go with it. This, of course, still more prejudiced\nyour hearers, as you had before that stated objections. I am not sorry,\nhowever, that it is still going on in some shape, if it is partly in\ndisguise. We hear that you have now on hand five times as much matter\nagainst the Sabbath as you have for it. This is all natural enough, God\u2019s\nword has ever been advocated by the minority. And when such blasphemous\nlanguage against the Saviour we are looking for, was permitted to blacken\nyour columns, and again reiterated that he was right, and you not only let\nit pass unnoticed, but was endeavoring to screen him by withdrawing his\nreal name from God\u2019s children. The inference is, and must be, strong\nagainst you. Look at your position now! THE BIBLE ADVOCATE!! Show if you\ncan the chapter and verse where the BIBLE allows any man to advocate God\u2019s\nword, that ever withheld his real name and where those that stood in high\nplaces were trying to screen them, because as we should have a good right\nto suppose, that they were in fellowship with their doctrine. How do the\ncolumns of THE BIBLE ADVOCATE look now, since you have opened the way for\nthem to follow your unrighteous course, to debase and still hold up God\u2019s\nholy law as a Jewish ritual, that had been abolished. It looks to me like\nthe same horn that is to \u201cprevail against the saints until the ancient of\ndays comes.\u201d \u201cHe thought to change times and laws;\u201d (God\u2019s laws without\ndoubt.) He, then, through this agency, has been blackening your columns\nwith his iron hoof. The Devil has been too long engaged in this war to\npass any one\u2019s enclosure, who has left his gate open, without walking in\nand taking possession. How could you be so careless or wilful, after\nwarring with him as you have done in the past, to leave the way open for\nhim to tread you down. Another thing: In your paper of Dec. 23d, you say,\n\u201cBr. Turner, have you sent your second article on the Sabbath? We have not\nreceived it.\u201d Why in so much haste for this wonderful promised article, to\noverthrow history, after he has overthrown himself by the bible? Why not\npublish some of the so much manuscript you have already on hand? I cannot\nhelp thinking, after all, that you have no faith in your own argument of a\nno-Sabbath, no-commandment system, hence this partial call for J. Turner\nto speak again. His view is really the very thing! It is just as it used\nto be. If T. has got it right the discussion is forever ended, and we have\nalways been right, but did not know it; if we had, we should not have\nresorted to these puzzling arguments of Paul to prove that there is no\nSabbath, to get clear of plain, bible doctrine!\n\nAs I have answered nearly all your arguments against the Sabbath and\ncommandments, in my work on the Sabbath, and Waymarks, and lastly in my\nreply to the Advent Harbinger, under the head of the Four Pillar system, I\nshall be brief because I want to say a word upon another subject that you\nhave named. You say, \u201cto assume or infer that the Sabbath was commanded to\nmen before the Exode from Egypt, is to walk as blind men. But at creation\nAdam\u2019s first day was the seventh day, or day on which God rested. Hence,\nif Adam kept Sabbath, he kept the first day, and then worked six days.\u201d\nWho said so? Not the bible. You would try to make out that Adam\ncontradicted and disobeyed God\u2019s law, just as you have. Suppose you were\nborn on Friday, the sixth day, would the next day, the seventh, be your\nfirst or second day? Your argument is not worth a straw; Adam\u2019s first day\nwas Friday, the sixth day, and if he had been created the seventh day,\nthat would have made no difference. How strange you talk! Because man\nshould happen to come into life upon any other than the first day, then he\nmust surely violate the Sabbath by doing his six days work first! This is\nin perfect keeping with \u201clet every man be persuaded in his own mind,\u201d and\nnot keep any. God rested the seventh day and blessed and sanctified it.\nSurely it is not so dangerous to follow God\u2019s example as it is to\ncontradict and disobey him. Such as these are the blind men. [See first\nthree pages of work on the Sabbath.]\n\nAgain, you say, \u201chow long was the covenant or law of ten commandments to\nremain in force and effect, and answer Gal. iii, till Christ shall come.\u201d\nUnder the third Pillar, I have answered this. The law of circumcision, and\nnot the law of God, is Paul\u2019s whole argument here. The 17th verse shows\nthe covenant is the one with Abraham, four hundred and thirty years before\nthe law to Moses. There is not an intimation of the abolition of the law\nof commandments. Here it is the law of Abraham and Moses. Therefore it is\nright for the advocates of the seventh-day Sabbath to demand of you to\nprove a change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day; and the\nreason we demand it is, because we positively know you have none. You also\nsay that the Apostles availed themselves of the opportunity to preach to\nthe judaizing christians in their synagogues on the seventh day, at the\nsame time keeping up the christian solemnity and worship on the first day.\nI say you cannot prove this. You cannot present a passage in the\nscriptures that shows that the disciples ever met together for worship, in\nthe day time, on the first day of the week, and only once of an evening;\nand not one word about that being a holy day or a day for them to worship,\nbut to break bread. But why do you want to prove this if all the\ncommandments are abolished? The fact is, as soon as you leave the law of\nGod, you are all adrift, with neither oar nor rudder, at the mercy of the\ntide. Again, you say \u201cthe ministration of the law is done away, is\nabolished.\u201d That is just what we say. Suppose you had ceased your\nministration ten years ago, would that have abolished the Gospel? This is\nyour reasoning, and it is the best argument you and others bring for the\nabolition of the commandments in 2d Cor. iii. There is nothing there but\nthe ministration abolished, which no more affects the law of God, than the\nmoving of your old sermons out of your house would affect the house.\n\nNow will you just turn over your file to Nov. 4th, where you come out\nagainst J. P. M. Peck, about the sanctuary. As I have twice presented my\nview of the sanctuary\u2019s being in the heavens, I shall not stop here, only\nto say, that there is abundant bible proof for this view, and but one\nplace for it, where Jesus, the High Priest is. But the one you advocate is\nfirst one thing and then another. Palestine, or Canaan, or Jerusalem, or\nmountains about Jerusalem; Mount Zion, and generally, the whole world. The\nreason for this is, because you have no proof of any certain place, after\nyou leave Paul, in Heb. viii: 2. But you say, \u201cI deny that it has been any\nthing like a general belief that the twenty-three hundred days ended in\n\u201944. There were a portion of the adventists that embraced, for a while,\nthat theory. But they soon abandoned it, with the exception of a few, who\nhave followed anything but the word of God and sound reason; and they now\nhave no fellowship for, or connection with those who truly look for the\ncleansing of the sanctuary, at the end of the days; and we have as little\nfellowship for their teaching as they have for us and our view of the\nplain word of God. We know enough of the effect of that theory that\nteaches the 2300 days ended in \u201944, and scores of Shakers can tell you\nmore even than we can.\u201d\n\nOut of the great mass of advent believers in \u201944, I do not believe you\nknew of twenty that did not think the days were ended in \u201944. We will try\nto show, by-and-by, who have followed sound reason; and who have got \u201cthe\nplain word of God.\u201d You say you \u201cknow enough of the effect of that theory\nthat teaches the 2300 days are ended.\u201d Allow me to tell you that you do\nnot know so much about it as you think you do, or as you will wish you\nhad. You are as much afloat here as you are on the subject of the Sabbath\nand commandments. That portion who abandoned the idea of the days being\nended, of which you boast, are of those that organized and entered the\nstate of the Laodocean church, \u201cneither hot nor cold;\u201d neither in one\nposition nor yet in another; \u201calways learning and never coming to the\nknowledge of (the present) truth.\u201d The ending of the 2300 days was the\ngreat burden of the advent teaching in \u201943 and \u201944; \u201cthen the sanctuary\nshall be cleansed.\u201d You will have it that this cannot be before the coming\nof the Lord, and you see he may come at any time; yes, now, by the first\nof January, as your Bible Advocate states. You have now heard something of\nthe character of this J. Weston. He would have us believe that he was so\nfull of the spirit of the Lord, that God had revealed to him that Jesus\nwould come the 24th of December, or by the 1st of January. All good\u2014we\nwill publish it! What about the 2300 days, Br. W.? Oh, no matter, Jesus is\ncoming now. H. H. Gross has refuted this time, but look at _him_ last\nspring; the 1335 days must end the 18th day of April, and the\nresurrection, or they would not end under forty-five years. Well, he\nconfessed that he was wrong in ever believing that they had ended in \u201944.\nCome, then, where will they end here? Oh, somewhere a little while before\nthe 1335 days end in the spring of 1847. Well, time has passed on; out he\ncomes again and says the Lord will come in the spring of 1848. Where will\nthe 2300 and 1335 days end, friend Gross? Can\u2019t say\u2014that is, he don\u2019t\nsay\u2014neither does J. Weston, and he does not correct him for this; it is\nonly because the advent cannot be until spring. And here I will ask an\nopinion\u2014that there is not a man in the whole advent ranks\u2014(it seems to me\nthat I will not even except you)\u2014that can show that the Lord will come\nthis winter or next spring. H. H. Gross is just as much mistaken in his\ncalculation this coming spring, as he was the last. Now you may go on and\ncall us what it seems to you good, we are confident that you have not got\nthe present truth, neither have you had it since you have followed any\nthing but \u201c_the word of God and sound reason_.\u201d And this is the main\nreason why you cannot answer brother Fuller\u2019s important questions on THE\nOPEN BOOK OF REV. x: 2. It requires some one that has followed the truth,\nthe present truth, nearer than you have, to reply to such questions, and\n_they_ as surely involve the days as a cry at midnight brought us to the\nend of them. Do you not see how you are first blowing hot and then blowing\ncold? Six weeks ago, you said you knew enough of the effect of that theory\nthat the _days_ are ended. You say \u201call will see by reading the article,\nwhat are Br. F.\u2019s views.\u201d That is, he is one that we have no fellowship\nfor. But, you say, we hope that he and many others may be benefitted by a\ncareful and prayerful investigation of some of the many questions he has\nasked. &c. &c. Now this is the right and only way to investigate. But if\nsome one undertakes to follow your advice by the scripture, it would not\namount to much, for we should expect to see you right out against them,\nfor those that have rejected plain scripture, connected with experience,\nas you have, and ridiculed those who had faith in it, have but little hope\nnow, since you have become an editor. We deeply lamented that you should\nhave taken such a course; but we have seen since, that it required\nsomething more than common moral courage, for a shepherd to remain with\nthe tried and tempted flock, when he sees that _all_ his fellow shepherds\nwere deserting them. The warnings you have had, have no doubt brought many\nsolemn convictions to yours and their minds, or else we should not find\nyou in this lukewarm state. Yes, you have been faithfully warned by your\nold, firm friends, not to come out with your Advocate; you have heard\ntheir voice, that two were enough to give the light on the doctrine of the\nadvent, and they had hard work to get along. But no, your paper was going\nto take different ground, in some things! In one respect, it has shown\npretty clearly, as the scriptures fully demonstrate, that \u201cthe dead know\nnot any thing;\u201d and allow me here to tell you, if you go on with your\nno-law-of-God and no-commandment system, and continue to reject the clear\nfulfillment of prophecy, in our past experience, you will as clearly prove\nthat you know but a very _little_ more. But after all you have said and\ndone, you are following hard on in the track\u2014the same old deep-cut rut,\nmade by your predecessors. Pharaoh\u2019s host like, the ruts so deep you can\nneither back nor turn out; but on you drive after them, thinking, no\ndoubt, that you are going to accomplish something for God and his cause.\nThe only way that I can see for you to do that, will be, either to abandon\nyour load, or shift the tongue of your chariot on the opposite end, drive\nback with all speed, and get into the highway of the Waymarks and high\nheaps, that you so wilfully abandoned more than three years ago.\n\nThe Saviour\u2019s admonition to the Philadelphia state of the church, which\nwas forming in \u201943 and \u201944, was to hold fast that which we had\u2014and he\nwould \u201cwrite upon us his new name.\u201d This is what we are endeavoring to do;\nand when we see you doing the opposite, we know you are wrong. You quote\nPaul to the Hebrews, viii: 10, \u201cSaith the Lord I will put my laws into\ntheir mind and write them in their hearts.\u201d Whose hearts? Answer\u2014the house\nof Israel; of course, all of God\u2019s people. What is this done for?\nAnswer\u2014that he may be our God and we may know him and be his people. Can\nyou tell your no-law no-commandment readers which law of God Paul meant?\nWhether it was the one you say he abolished in Col., Gal., Cor. and\nRomans, or was it another code of laws which he had made for our purpose,\nand then hid them from us. If you know in what book, or chapter, or verse\nthey are in the bible, I beseech you to let us know immediately, for I see\nby John\u2019s visions in the Rev. that in the last days there certainly will\nbe a company keeping them, and the Devil will persecute them for it; but\nthey will eventually be saved, and enter the city. Rev. xii: 17; xiv: 12;\nxxii: 14. And finally, if you cannot find any others than those which God\ngave by his own mouth and wrote with his own finger on Mount Sinai, more\nthan 3300 years since, the same which Jesus confirmed to us more than 1800\nyears ago with his Gospel, won\u2019t you make that known by publicly\nconfessing that it is impossible for you to tell what other object God had\nin view than our keeping these same laws; and that you had, contrary to\nthe direct teachings of God, derided both his law and his willing,\nobedient children. Don\u2019t tell us that this law is the \u201c_law_ of _Christ_\nor the _law_ of _grace_,\u201d or any other name unless you can show us how\nmany commandments they contain, because James has told us \u201cif we fail in\none we are guilty of the whole.\u201d Jesus never gave but one commandment.\n\n                  -------------------------------------\n\nP. S. As I predicted on your second page, J. Turner\u2019s piece has come. The\n_child_ is fairly born, and you have fallen in love with it. Now brethren,\njust haul down all your other colors, J. Turner has got the very thing!\nThe first day of the week is the seventh-day Sabbath! We have always been\nright, but we never knew it till now! Thanks to J. Turner for confounding\nthe whole world, and now no more about this much vexed question! \u201cWe shall\nfill our paper mostly with other matter for the future.\u201d The wind has\nfavored us and we have made a first rate tack to windward, and now we can\nbreathe much freer seeing our enemies are under our lee. Hear what he\nsays? \u201cWe supposed and still do suppose that Barnabas had reference to a\nclass well known to the adventists in Connecticut and Massachusetts, who\nwent into the shut door, and staid in, and almost every other door but the\ntrue one into the sheepfold, and _many_ of which became great sticklers\nfor the seventh day.\u201d &c. Now he goes on and speaks in high praise of\nthose who have been writing for the Sabbath\u2014_they_ are consistent\nChristians, &c. And now, says he, \u201cwe must all be _exceedingly_ careful\nhow we _write_ and _speak_; the enemy seeks to devour us, and one of his\nmost artful wiles is to divide the saints by _dark insinuations_, _evil\nspeaking_, and _jealousies_,\u201d &c.\u2014See Bible Advocate, Dec. 30th, p. 160.\nWhy this caution after the above unsparing epithets; are you afraid that\nsome of these misguided, mistaken people will get into your open door? If\nthey should happen to, and confess that they were wrong in believing in\nthe shut door, no matter how many others they had been guilty of entering\ninto what you call almost every door, they would immediately become\nconsistent Christians! Out of hundreds who have crawled into your open\ndoor and made such confessions, causing the hypocrites and unbelievers to\nrejoice, and the hearts of the righteous to be sad, &c., I will just name\na few: J. and C. Pearsons, F. G. Brown, of wonderful memory; and now a few\nSabbath keepers: W. M. Ingham, John Howell, of vascillating memory, and J.\nTurner, your fellow laborer. Well, you are not so far to windward as you\nthink for; here comes another head flaw, that will drive you down on that\nlee shore again, where you may see the awful havoc you have made of those\nwho are following in your wake. See them dashing there upon the rocks and\ninto those overwhelming breakers! Your whirlwind of doctrine has utterly\ndismantled them, and their cry for help is unavailing! and unless you put\nforth some more strenuous efforts to avoid these dangerous seas, you will\nnever get off from this lee shore, while under these deceitful and\nflattering winds of doctrine.\n\nAgain he says\u2014\u201cWe take the liberty to add, that Br. T.\u2019s article is\nIRREFUTABLE, and that we are now observing the Sabbath of the Lord our\nGod, and not the Jewish, nor a Pagan Sabbath.\u201d Where is he now? Does he\nmean that J. T.\u2019s Sabbath is \u201cthe Sabbath of the Lord our God?\u201d He has\nalways insisted, in his former articles, that \u201cthe Sabbath of the Lord our\nGod,\u201d _was_ the Jewish Sabbath. There is but one named in the bible. If\nthis what he calls \u201cthe plain word of the Lord,\u201d I doubt whether any one\nwill understand him.\n\nHe says further\u2014\u201cIf Friday was the sixth day\u2014every transaction on the day\nof our Lord\u2019s crucifixion is involved in utter confusion\u2014and the law of\ntypes in a like failure, and makes it an impossibility for the Sabbath of\nthe Lord our God to be kept the next day, for this [_wise_] reason, that\nit was a feast day\u201d! and quotes John xix: 31, again and again, for\npositive proof. I wonder if he can tell how, and when, and where the Jews\nlost that day, since the crucifixion, and where is the history to show\nthat they did really pass over the seventh-day Sabbath and keep the first\nday for the Sabbath? I have already answered this in J. Turner\u2019s article;\nthere you will see the reason why John called this \u201can high day.\u201d Now, as\nhe has spoken of the law of types, I ask where is the chapter and verse in\nthe bible in which the Jews were ever forbidden to hold a feast, when it\nfell on the seventh-day Sabbath? for, as I before stated, this always did\noccur every year. Besides this Jewish feast was an holy convocation; no\nservile work was to be done on this day. This was always continued seven\ndays, and the last day was like the first. Lev. xxiii: 6-8. Now then, all\nthat they did on these feast Sabbaths, was to worship God by their\nofferings. You see that on God\u2019s holy seventh-day Sabbath, [see J. T.\u2019s\narticle,] they always offered four lambs; therefore, whenever the other\nSabbaths, or holy convocations fell on the seventh day, they were equally\nobserved, as is positively proved by the direction of God in the 37th and\n38th verses of this same chapter, \u201cevery thing upon his day besides the\nSabbaths of the Lord,\u201d &c. Now see\u2014here are seven holy convocations,\nSabbath feasts named in this chapter, which the Jews were required to keep\nbesides the weekly seventh-day Sabbath, and when their feasts fell on the\nholy Sabbath of the Lord, all the extra labor was in offering to God the\nextra bullocks, lambs &c. Do let me entreat you, before you further expose\nyourself, to read in connection with this, the twenty-eighth and\ntwenty-ninth chapter of Numbers, for here you will find every identical\nthing specified: therefore, when one of these seven holy convocation days\nof every year came on the weekly Sabbath, it was of more importance,\ninasmuch that they had more offerings to make to God, and hence John or\nany one else, might call it \u201can high day;\u201d but none the less holy, any\nmore than for us, instead of assembling together on the Sabbath, in our\nseveral places for worship, to have a general conference meeting in\nBoston, to continue over the Sabbath.\n\nBut J. Turner, instead of overthrowing history, as he promised he should,\nis exulting, and says, \u201cunless I utterly misapprehend the technical\nveracity of Christ and his apostles, _I have the argument_ by their\nconcurrent testimony.\u201d In his Note 3, he says, \u201cBut if the day that\nfollowed the crucifixion was the seventh-day Sabbath, it could not be said\nthat the Sabbath drew on, for it was even then _began_. It commenced at\nevening, at the same time the pascal lamb was slain in the law, at which\ntime according to the record, Jesus expired.\u201d\n\nNow, I say, this is not true, and he or the editor who published it, knows\nit to be so. I presume that both of them have stated in their preaching,\nagain and again, that Jesus expired on the cross at the ninth hour, as the\nEvangelists testify, which was at three o\u2019clock in the afternoon, and\nthree hours before the Sabbath commenced. If he can assert such positive\nfalsehoods as these, and others which I have stated, to prove what never\nhas, nor never will take place, and at the same time have multitudes\ncrying \u201camen!\u201d \u201cthat\u2019s true!\u201d &c., it is no wonder he can \u201cset _as calm as\nheaven_!\u201d\n\nBut I have one other proof to offer, which will destroy their whole\nfoundation. I had overlooked it in the multitude of texts that had come up\nhere, but God in answer to our prayers, both in our closet and at\nmeetings, for wisdom to guide us in giving the _present truth_ to the\nlittle flock in this work, at this important crisis, has so directed that\nI may have it in time to put into this Postscript, just as it is going to\npress. [I could not see before why it was that the printer could not get\nhis promised help, in order to proceed faster with this work. I see it\nnow\u2014it is all in God\u2019s own wise way. He was not willing, (as it now\nappears to me,) that my work should come out to check or disturb you,\nuntil you began to settle somewhere on this subject.] The proof then, I\ntranscribe from a letter received from Br. JAMES WHITE, dated Topsham, Me.\nJanuary 2d, 1848. Here it is:\n\n\n    \u201cThe plain, simple truth in regard to the holy Sabbath flows out\n    from the blessed bible in one clear, strait channel; while\n    erroneous views are fated to run crooked and devour themselves. I\n    think that those who are not fully settled as to what day of the\n    week is the seventh or Sabbath, would do well to refer to the\n    type, in Lev. xxii: 5-21. Here are three types which were\n    fulfilled at the time of the first advent. Every adventist in the\n    land once believed that these types were exactly fulfilled as to\n    time. The paschal lamb was slain on the 14th day of the first\n    month. So was Jesus crucified on the 14th day of the first month.\n    The handful of the first fruits of the harvest was waved before\n    the Lord on the 16th of the first month; so was Jesus the first\n    fruits of the resurrection, raised from the tomb the 16th of the\n    first month. [See 1st Cor. xv: 20.] Now if the resurrection day,\n    which was the first day of the week, was the 16th of the first\n    month, then it follows that the 14th of the first month when Jesus\n    was crucified, which was Friday, was the sixth day of the week;\n    Saturday, the seventh day or Sabbath, and Sunday, the first day of\n    the week.\n\n    \u201cSt. Paul preached that Christ would rise the third day, according\n    to the scriptures. He certainly could refer to no other scripture\n    but the type. Our Lord, while preaching the resurrection to the\n    two, on their way to Emmeas, began at Moses. So we are not on\n    forbidden ground when we go there also, to prove that he arose on\n    the third day.\u2014See Luke xxiv: 27, 44-46. Jesus came not to break,\n    but to fulfill every jot and tittle of the law\u2014therefore he arose\n    Sunday, the 16th day of the first month, which harmonizes with the\n    joint testimony of the Apostles and Christ himself, that he arose\n    on the third day.\u201d\n\n\nOther brethren, (in reference to J. Turner\u2019s article,) from Canandaigua,\nN. Y. and Dorchester, Mass. have also, about this same time, referred us\nto this strong hold, for which we thank them and praise the Lord for this\nlight, that forever settles the question. A most striking proof of the\n_unity_ of the saints in their patience, (Rev. xiv: 12,) no matter where\nlocated, though hundreds and thousands of miles apart, they are one on\nthis question. This is as we now understand the Sabbath of the Lord our\nGod, to be the rallying point of all those who are truly looking for the\nspeedy coming of Jesus. Whosoever, therefore, shall attempt to destroy or\n_displace_ God\u2019s holy Sabbath, will have to pass the examination of the\nhost. Paul to the Corinthians, 5th chapter and seventh verse, says, \u201cFor\neven Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.\u201d How? Answer\u2014expired on\nFriday, the 14th day of the first month, at 3 o\u2019clock, P. M., in exact\nfulfillment of the type by Moses, in Exo. xii: 6, 11-14, continued for\n1670 years. He rested from _all_ his works only one twenty-four hour day,\nand that was God\u2019s holy day. Paul tells the Romans that \u201che was raised\nagain for our justification.\u201d iv: 25; and the Corinthians \u201cthat he is\nrisen and become the first fruits of them that slept.\u201d 1st Cor. xv: 20;\nand Col. i: 18, \u201cfirst born from the dead.\u201d Again, \u201cshould be the _first_\nthat should rise from the dead.\u201d Acts xxvi: 23. John says, \u201cThe first\nbegotten of the dead.\u201d He arose on Sunday morning, the first day of the\nweek, before sunrise\u2014say about 5 A. M.\u2014having been dead about thirty-eight\nhours. Thus he fulfilled the type in Lev. xxiii: 10-11 verses\u2014the first\nfruits of the harvest, the handful of barley, called the wafe sheaf, which\nwas waved by the priest, with the offering of a lamb, [emblem of Christ,]\nas first fruits of the resurrection, on the morrow after the Sabbath\u2014the\n16th of the first month\u2014the Sabbath, or feast day, always being on the\n15th of the same month. Then, from the 14th, at 3 P. M. to the 16th, at\nabout 6 P. M. is but thirty-eight hours, _two_ whole nights, (not three,)\none whole day, a part of Friday and a part of Sunday. \u201cThus it behoved\nChrist to suffer and to rise from the dead the _third day_.\u201d This is his\nown testimony a few hours after his resurrection; also a few hours after\nthe offering of the wafe sheaf. If this can be overthrown then can also\nthe time of his crucifixion. The chaotic confusion that you would make\nabout this great feast day which always followed the passover, is answered\nhere. It so happened in the order of time to come on God\u2019s holy Sabbath;\nand that God so ordered it that Christ should rest from all his works on\nhis holy day, was without doubt, to fulfill some glorious event yet to\ncome.\n\nNow, friend Timothy, if you will not reverence God\u2019s holy Sabbath and\ncommandments according to the clear precept, do you let them alone, if you\ndo not want a worse thing to befal you, for just so sure as you fight\nagainst them they will destroy you. This beating the air, is some like\ndaubing with untempered mortar; you cannot make any of it stay put. If I\nwere in your place, I should a great deal rather have been fast asleep\nthan to be caught in such heaven-daring business\u2014fighting against God!\nThis looks like \u201c_following anything but _\u2018the word of God and sound\nreason.\u2019\u201d\n\nDuring \u201943 and \u201944, Dowling, Stewart, Colver, Chase, Bush and others, took\ntheir stand against William Miller and his brethren, to demolish Daniel\u2019s\nvision of the 2300 days. You remember that no two of these agreed, but\neach started upon a theory of his own; but God\u2019s children were united and\non the one point, and therefore triumphed over them all. Now you leading\nmen are acting the drama over again, with regard to the Sabbath and\ncommandments of God. See how it looks; William Miller believes the first\nday is the Sabbath; J. V. Himes believes in selecting any day, just as you\nare persuaded, but still _calls the first the Sabbath_; Joseph Marsh is\nnot particular, don\u2019t believe there is either law, Sabbath or\ncommandments\u2014says we are under the law of grace; but still he will have\nit, that Sunday is the Sabbath! you say the first day is the seventh of\nthe Lord our God, but it is not the Jewish Sabbath,\u2014that is; the one which\nis in the decalogue. It is something new\u2014I don\u2019t understand you; don\u2019t\nthink you can make your brethren understand it, either. J. Turner says the\nfirst day is the true seventh-day Sabbath! D. B. Wait says the\ncommandments are right, but the first day is the true seventh-day.\nBarnabas says \u201cthe Jews were right in killing our Lord for a notorious\nSabbath breaker, if he did not abolish all the law when he commenced his\nministry,\u201d three years before he abolished Moses\u2019 law. Up starts another\nmighty man, G. Needham, and says God told him that the commandments were\nall abolished in 2d Corinthians, chapter 3d. And a great portion of your\nflattering readers are flying like Mother Cary\u2019s Chickens(2) to get into\nyour WAKE to pick up the crumbs! Don\u2019t smile, gentle reader, the picture\nis not overdrawn. These are some of the principal leaders in the second\nadvent; they will tell you to your face that they have renounced all\nsectarian creeds and formulas, and believe every word of God. Now the\n\u201c_great sticklers for the seventh day_,\u201d are all united on the Sabbath and\ncommandments; they believe God, if they keep his Sabbath, that they shall\nbe sanctified and ride upon the high places of the earth.\u2014Ezekiel and\nIsaiah. They believe Jesus, that the law and the prophets hang upon the\ncommandments, and that the keeping of them will give eternal life and\ngreat esteem in the reign of heaven. This carries them beyond the Jewish,\nGospel, and all other dispensations. See also Rev. xxii: 14. They believe\nthe holy Apostles, Paul, John and James\u2014that \u201cthe law is holy, and the\ncommandments holy, just and good.\u201d \u201cHere are they [Jan. 1848] that keep\nthe commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.\u201d Rev. xiv: 12. \u201cIf we keep\nthe whole law and yet offend in one point, we are guilty of all.\u201d They\nfeel perfectly secure in following such leaders, and they understand that\nthough you be ever so moral in regard to the nine commandments, you fail\nin the fourth, the Sabbath. They believe this to be the \u201cplain word of the\nLord,\u201d and on this Sabbath question they will all be united, waiting for\nJesus. And just so sure as the first class of expositors were overthrown\nby rejecting the sure word, just so sure you will be overwhelmed in utter\nconfusion that oppose God\u2019s holy Sabbath and commandments, and your case\nis now hanging in awful suspense. O Lord, let the clear light shine.\n\nA word more\u2014as your wonderful prototype has also threatened to unsettle\nthe world with respect to the history of the seventh-day Sabbath. If he\nproceeds with it as he has with the unerring word of God, our minds will\nhave to be remodelled, to believe with him. If any of the little flock\nfeel desirous of spending an hour in looking into this subject, I would\nrecommend them to send to the New York Sabbath Tract Society, and purchase\nSabbath tract No. 4, vol. 1, 48 pages. This will save the labor of poring\nover Roman and English history, or of following the sophistical arguments\nof the blind leading the blind. Much reliance is placed upon the history\nof the \u201cearly fathers,\u201d so called, who succeeded the Apostles, to settle\nthe question. We ought to remember that these were uninspired men, and we\ndo not know even so much about their characters, as we do of the\nuninspired fathers of the last century, whose teaching led us all into\nBabylon. If the true history of the advent doctrine from 1842 to the\nautumn of 1844, had, with the subsequent events in our history up to 1848,\nbeen published 1800 years ago from the Advent Heralds, and their\nconductors had been called the fathers\u2014it would have puzzled all the wise\nheads in Christendom, in this age, to have expounded their meaning; for we\nsee it requires all the energies of the human mind to trace their crooked\ntracks, even when right before us. For this reason, I have said but little\nabout history; my whole and entire reliance being upon the inspired word\nof the living God. This, we are told, will make us \u201c_perfect_ and\n_entire_\u2014_wanting nothing_.\u201d\u20142d Tim. iii: 17.\n\nIf what I have and may here present in this work will not stand the test\nof what we have seen and felt ourselves\u2014fulfilling the clear word of God\nin these last days, then I shall fail in my object of comforting and\nstrengthening the flock of God. I fully believe in history, when all\ndeductions are fully allowed.\n\n\n\n\n\nPAST AND PRESENT EXPERIENCE.\n\n\nTO WILLIAM MILLER,\n\n_Dear Sir_,\u2014The time was, when all second advent believers were dear to\nyou, and they called you father and brother Miller. Alas, how changed the\nscene is now! Jesus says \u201cwhosoever shall do the will of my Father which\nis in heaven, the same is my brother and sister and mother.\u201d They can\u2019t\nbelieve that you are doing the will of God, as you once was, though they\ncannot help loving and venerating your name for the great light which you\nhave given\u2014because you are wounding their feelings by calling them\nFanatics, Door-Shutters, and almost any thing but honest people, to\ndestroy all their reputation and christian fellowship, and make them feel\nif possible, that they are worse than the heathen. In this way you have\nweaned their affection from you, and when you give them an exposition of\nGod\u2019s word now, they doubt: say they, he first gave us the light, and we\nrallied to his standard, because it agreed with the scriptures\u2014but when we\nwere come to the most trying and toilsome part of our journey then he\nforsook us and joined in with the shepherds and those of like faith, to\nberate us. But we soon learnt from the prophets that there would be a\npeople in the last days, answering this description, that God had promised\nto save, called _Outcasts_!\u2014Jer. xxx: 17; Psl. cxlvii: 2. Now you are\nencouraging these same deniers of our faith to be _peaceable_; for\u2014say\nyou\u2014we shall soon get into the kingdom of God. Methinks if we should all\nmeet there under existing circumstances, there would be a great deal of\nconfessing before we could be reconciled to listen to each other\u2019s joys.\nBut it will not be so; if you and your brethren, and the _outcasts_ too,\nare saved, then I predict that we shall have to stay here until a perfect\nreconciliation takes place. When that will be, I cannot tell, for in my\njudgment the gulf between us has been widening for the last three years.\nNow, I prefer to remain on that side of it with the _Outcasts_, for they\nhave the promise that they shall be gathered. When we made our sacrifice\nduring a cry at midnight, we considered and were fully persuaded that we\nwere doing our last work, and surely that would _be done the best of any\nwork_. Then of course we had no right whatever to take back the sacrifices\nwe then made, and rob God. We were fully aware that our disappointments\nwould not change our course, for if we were ever saved it must be by our\nonward course. But those with whom you were associated sounded the\nretreat, and all that did not follow in their train have been subject to\nyour unsparing epithets.\n\nIf you knew as much about this afflicted and torn people, (whom you have\nbeen the instrument in leading out into the Philadelphia state of the\nchurch, and then leaving and driving them from you,) as I do, you would\nshudder to appear before Him who has promised to be a Father to them and\nkeep them. The principal cause of many offences which they committed were\nfrom bad teachers and teaching. You have a sample here in this work. (We\nhave no wish, _neither do we uphold_ any one who does not follow the\nteachings of the sure word.) I think you have listened too much to them.\n\nIf I could just take you with me to some of the stopping places of these\npeople, and show you their scanty wood piles at this inclement season of\nthe year, and then to the barrels which once held their beef, pork and\nflour, together with the scanty subsistence they now have, and with no\nearthly prospect of another supply, only as their trust is in the living\nGod, in whom they had committed their all, because of their honest\nsacrifice and anxious waiting for their coming Lord; turned out of their\nformer employment and reproached for keeping God\u2019s holy Sabbath day;\nwhipped by cruel, unmerciful men for shouting the praises of their God and\nking, and still persevering in their faith, &c. And then, for a contrast,\nto step on board the cars and be rolled away to your own comfortable and\ncommodious house, with well stocked barn and granaries, beef and pork\nbarrels\u2014the produce of your own valuable farm\u2014with all things that heart\ncould wish for, and set down by your comfortable fire with your family,\n(all believers with you in the coming of Jesus,) and recount to them the\nstrange scenes you had witnessed among an afflicted people, who once\nlistened with anxiety and delight to every word you had to say about the\nsecond coming of Jesus, and they were so delighted with this, to them,\njoyful news, that they wanted to hear about it all the time. We may\nimagine your conversation to proceed somewhat in the following strain:\n\n\u201cYou remember how elder Himes used to insist on my going with him from\ncity to city, and from state to state, because of the people\u2019s anxiety to\nhear me preach about the coming of Christ in 1843 and \u201944.\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, father, I remember it well\u2014for when I was with you it seemed as\nthough the people were hardly willing to let us come home and rest a\nlittle while.\u201d\n\n\u201cI know it, my son, and I used to think that God never would have\nsustained me in such continued and incessant labors as I was then called\nto perform, if it were not his cause. Why, when I saw the wonderful effect\nthat it produced on backsliders and sinners, in bringing them to God, and\nthe glow of joy that lit up in the countenances of God\u2019s honest, believing\nchildren, and how they hung upon every word; and then the contrary effect,\nwhen some of their learned ministers raised their objections\u2014I said I know\nthis is God\u2019s cause, and as it rolled on through that cry at midnight,\ndown to its closing scene, you all remember with what joy and glory I was\nfilled, and how I publicly declared my faith, and stated that \u2018I might be\ncalled a FANATIC, but, I said, call me what you please, Christ will come,\u2019\n&c. Well, these singular people are some of the very ones that used to\nhang on my words and others, who preached to them of this doctrine. And\nduring this cry at midnight they made a sacrifice of all they had\u2014(some of\nthem were almost as well off as _we are_, and some were poor,)\u2014but they\noffered what they had, and that was all that was required.\u201d\n\n\u201cGrandfather, what makes them poor now that had something then? You know\nthe Saviour didn\u2019t come then, as you said he would, and that is more than\nthree years ago.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, they thought it would be contrary to scripture to take back their\nsacrifice, and so many of them have made no improvements on their farms,\nnor their buildings,\u2014no, they have not even made _stone walls_! Some of\nthem sold what they had, and have been trying to help the poorer ones,\nbecause they said they still believed that Christ was coming, and they\nwould not need it. For instance, they believe what Luke has recorded in\nhis xii: 33\u2014\u2018Sell your goods and give alms; lay not up treasure on the\nearth,\u2019\u2014they think this must be understood literally! and they have gone\noff into many strange notions, believing the door is shut, &c. &c.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, how do they appear, father?\u201d\n\n\u201cThey do not seem to be, in the least, alarmed at poverty; they are\nexpecting soon to be delivered and made heirs with Jesus, to an\nincorruptible inheritance that will abide forever. I could get along with\nmany points in their faith, and believe them honest, if they did not make\nthem tests for us; and because we do not believe in the great work that\nwas wrought in the past, and the present truths that they advocate, they\nhave no charity for us. They say we have backslidden and gone into a cold\nlukewarm Laodocean state of the church.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, father, I believe there is a great deal of truth in their\nstatements, for there certainly is a wonderful difference in our camp and\nconference meetings, to what there used to be, for if any one shouts glory\nto God, now, as they used to in \u201943 and \u201944, it seems as if the whole\nmeeting was agitated, until it is ascertained that it is one of the\ndeluded ones, it seems as though they hardly dare say amen, either because\nthey do not believe what you say, or for fear they shall be called\n_fanatics_. You know how they tried you and how hard you talked to them\nabout it in the conference in Boston, last spring. You thought it was\nbecause they had no religion. And then the camp meeting too, at Lake\nChamplain; I suppose the most of them thought that you were going to prove\nthat the door was shut, and that the past was true; and a good many of\nthem might still have thought so, if elder Marsh had not taken it up and\ncalled forth your explanation, in his paper of Sept 28th. For my part, I\ndon\u2019t really understand all these things\u2014that as soon as you begin to\nadvocate the past truths in any of our meetings, these editors are either\nwriting or visiting you to explain it more fully in their papers, and then\nneither party seems to be satisfied. If I were you, I would take a\nstrait-forward course, and try to please God, if I could not any one\nelse.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, my son, you know that these two editors have stood by me ever since\n1842, and as for elder Himes, he has stood by me and been my warm and fast\nfriend all these last seven years of joy and trials, and I cannot separate\nfrom him. No, I have told him that I would sustain him and his paper if I\nhad to carry down our \u2018_potatoes to Boston_,\u2019 to raise the means. You see\nI must stand by him, and he and brother Marsh will defend and justify my\ncourse and views of bible doctrine; and defend my character from the\naspersions of my enemies, and gladly publish any thing I have to say\nagainst the _Door Shutters_, &c.\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, yes\u2014I know all that, father, but some how or other, these things do\nnot look right. You began with a strait-forward bible course, and it cut\nlike a sword with two edges, and that is the reason why these door\nshutters, &c., as you call them, believed your testimony, and they think\nthere is just as much edge to the sword now as there ever was. However,\nyou have studied the bible much more than I have, therefore I shall not\ndispute you, but I cannot see that this people, whom you have been to\nvisit, are so much out of the way for venturing to go forward, after _your\nclear directions to them_, soon after the cry at midnight.\u201d\n\nBut it may be said that these are what are termed the \u201cNo-work Folks.\u201d No\nsir, they do not belong to that class, although their views are, in most\nall other respects, similar. You have been told\u2014or, I have\u2014by one of your\ntraveling lecturers, that there were but twenty-five of them, all told. He\nsaid they were proclaiming that they were all that would be saved at the\nsecond advent. We have no such view. We believe, what I shall attempt to\nprove by-and-by, that there will be 144,000 saved at the coming of Jesus.\nFurthermore, we believe that the same commandment which teaches us to keep\nthe seventh-day Sabbath, also teaches that we may labor the other six days\nfor just as much as we comfortably need; more than that would counteract\nthe direction of Jesus, viz. \u201cLay not up for yourselves treasures on the\nearth,\u201d &c. This is all right, for our faith teaches us we do not need it.\nIf we hoard up what we have got, it certainly is not selling and giving\nalms. My opinion is, that this is now to be made clear, and that God\u2019s\npeople will be absolutely afraid to be found with a surplus treasure here,\nwhen Christ comes. As the keeping of the fourth commandment, in its true\nscriptural sense, carries us to the gates of the city, so our laboring\nhonestly for what we immediately want, also carries us to that point. But\nwe have no controversy with those who honestly and sincerely live to God\nwithout laboring; though they tell us that they have no charity for us,\nstill we believe if they honestly live out their faith God will not\ncondemn them for not working six days.\n\nYour explanation respecting the time that Christ might, or has, began to\nreign, to prove that you had no connection or fellowship with \u201c_door\nshutters_\u201d or their views, is the most enigmatical of all your ideas,\nsince 1845. I refer to your letter in the Advent Harbinger of Sept. 28th.\nIt is endorsed by the editor, and also by the Advent Herald, in justifying\nthe ground you took\u2014and grew out of a report that elder S. Hall of Bangor,\nmade from your conversation and preaching at the Champlain camp meeting. I\nreported what I heard, and it was therefore stated that I was present.\nThis you could have contradicted, but the editor has since acknowledged\nhis mis-statement. S. Hall is an entire stranger to me. I have written him\ntwo letters on the subject, without reply. But it is your own written\nstatement that so puzzles me. You give from 1815 to 1847, thirty-two\nyears, for Michael in Dan. xii: 1, to stand up to reign, and you further\nsay it might have been at the end of the 2300 days. This is the first\nintimation I have had, since you took your stand against us, that you\nbelieved the days ended; but the forty-five years latitude for Christ to\nbegin to reign, and your anathemas at those who believe the door is shut,\nis as incomprehensible to me as Swedenbourgenism\u2014J. Marsh\u2019s explained\nexposition of Nov. 9th, to the contrary notwithstanding. As I have already\ngiven my views about the time when Christ began to reign, in _Way Marks_,\npage 35 and onward, I may not say much here. Have the 2300 days really\nended then, and nothing to _mark_ their end? This was the burthen of your\ncry. It was also the prophets, and one of them said it should speak and\nnot lie. Then, of course, it would not come silently; but the wise would\nunderstand when it did end. You reply, I suppose, according to the 11th\nchapter of Revelations, from which you was speaking, that the seventh\ntrumpet had began to sound; but was there nothing else connected with the\nending of the 2300 days? Yes\u2014the third wo, because that belongs to the\nseventh trumpet; see viii: 13. Now the 10th chapter, 7th verse, shows us\nthat when this seventh trumpet begins to sound, the Mystery of God should\nbe finished. Oh, you say, that\u2019s the old story of 1845. Yes sir, and more\nthan seventeen hundred years beyond that. Here is your trouble; but the\nmost of your hearers, though they may listen with delight to you, yet they\npreach that the seventh trumpet does not sound until Christ comes to raise\nthe dead. You ought to correct them here, for they are certainly in the\ndark; Christ is not the seventh messenger.\n\nBesides, if Christ has began to reign as you say, over the nations, he\nhas, according to your showing in Daniel xii: 1, changed his position. If\nso, how can he be in the mediatorial seat? His leaving that finishes the\nMystery, and that forever _shuts the door_, unless you or some one else\ncan prove that he leaves this work over the nations, and goes back again\nto finish what he left undone. Now, who is the fanatic here? You cannot\nmake all this work in harmony\u2014it is impossible; besides, you call us\nspiritualizers, because of our view of the Bridegroom. If we are, pray\nwhat are you? and how did you find out that Christ had changed his\nposition, even twenty years ago? or when the 2300 days ended, somewhere\nsince 1843? It really appears to me, that if _we_ had put forth such a\nview, that we should have been pronounced crazy! and yet your two editors\nwill patch it all up, and throw all the stigma upon us, forsooth, because\nthey think we shall claim you as an _Outcast_! Their fears are\nunnecessary\u2014we have no claim to such views; they would only disturb our\nranks. We believe that the seventh trumpet began to sound on the first day\nof the seventh month. Then the Mystery was finished, and the third wo\ncame. The virgins in the parable, were divided\u2014some went after oil. On the\ntenth day of the seventh month is the day of atonement. At this point in\n1841, in the order of the fulfillment of the types in Leviticus and New\nTestament testimony, (which we have referred to in the _Way Marks_) Jesus\nreceived his Bride and the kingdoms of this world, and entered the Holy of\nHolies as our Great High Priest, and commenced the cleansing of the\nSanctuary. Why? Because here the 2300 days ended:\u2014_The appointed time._ At\nthis point too, commenced the trial of God\u2019s people. Surely you never can\nforget this, until the trial ends; and that cannot end in accordance with\nthe type, until our Great High Priest and King has finished the cleansing\nof the Sanctuary, the New Jerusalem, and it is made holy; see Joel iii:\n17. Now follow the type and Bible testimony, and it is positively clear\nthat Jesus changes his position from the daily ministration to the most\nholy place, just as certainly as Aaron did. Here then, in short, is where\nwe prove the Bridegroom come to the Marriage, and the door shut, in the\nparable of Matt. xxv, and in the types. If it does not prove this in our\npast history, and that we are now waiting for our coming king, then these\ntypes are superfluous. We do not believe that Michael stands up, as you\nhave stated, until he has accomplished what is above stated. We cannot\npossibly see how he can begin to reign over the nations as king, while he\nis in the most holy place, cleansing the Sanctuary, and the saints being\nperfected for the blessing when he lays aside his priestly robes and takes\nthe sickle, as in Rev. xiv: 14; and God speaks, as in Joel iii: 16. If\nwhat you have stated, had been even approbated in Oct. 1844, it would have\nthrown the whole harmony of the scriptures, in our past history, into\nconfusion. As I have said, I will here repeat it, that unless you follow\nthe Bible rule as I have stated here and in the _Way Marks_, you never can\nharmonize the scriptures with the _past_ nor _present_; and I think I\nshall make it plainer still, before I lay down my pen.\n\nOne thing more: Much derision is made about those of our company that have\njoined the Shakers. I say it is a shame to them first, to have preached in\nclearly and distinctly the speedy coming of our Lord Jesus Christ\n_personally_ to gather his saints\u2014and then to go and join the Shakers in\ntheir faith, that he (Jesus) came spiritually in their Mother, Ann Lee,\nmore than seventy years ago. This, without doubt in my mind, is owing to\ntheir previous teaching and belief in a doctrine called the _trinity_. How\ncan you find fault with their faith while you are teaching the very\nessence of that never\u2014no never to be understood, doctrine? For their\ncomfort and faith, and of course your own, you say \u201c_Christ is God, and\nGod is love._\u201d As you have given no explanation, we take it to come from\nyou as a literal exposition of the word; and although the editor of the\nHerald, of Dec 4th, endeavors to justify you in your published view of the\nUnity in 1842, and thinks he has made it clear that you have not changed\nyour views on this subject, just as he is in the habit of doing without\nyour knowledge, but still you have not confirmed it, and your having\nchanged your views once at least since 1844, leaves us in doubt about the\neditor\u2019s remarks. We ask, then, where you find this passage, and if ever\nlove was seen; and if that is what we are looking for from heaven, to come\nthe second time? If so, how will it look, and where is the scripture that\ndescribes it? It seems to me that the shakers have a better claim to you\nthan we have.\n\nWe believe that Peter and his master settled this question beyond\ncontroversy, Matt. xvi: 13-19; and I cannot see why Daniel and John has\nnot fully confirmed that Christ is the Son, and, not God the Father. How\ncould Daniel explain his vision of the 7th chapter, if \u201cChrist was God.\u201d\nHere he sees one \u201clike the Son (and it cannot be proved that it was any\nother person) of man, and there was given him Dominion, and Glory, and a\nkingdom;\u201d by the ancient of days. Then John describes one seated on a\nthrone with a book in his right hand, and he distinctly saw Jesus come up\nto the throne and take the book out of the hand of him that sat thereon.\nNow if it is possible to make these two entirely different transactions\nappear in one person, then I could believe your text if I could believe\nthat God died and was buried instead of Jesus, and that Paul was mistaken\nwhen he said. \u201cNow the God of peace that _brought again_ from the _dead\nour Lord Jesus_ that great shepherd of the sheep\u201d &c., and that Jesus also\ndid not mean what he said when he asserted that he came from God, and was\ngoing to God, &c. &c.; and much more, if necessary, to prove the utter\nabsurdity of such a faith. Without going any further, we say that one of\ntwo things is certainly clear, that the doctrine of the second advent,\nwhich you, and your adherents promulgated down to Oct. 1844, was\npositively wrong, if you _now_ are right. We believe it was right and\napproved of God and therefore we fully believe that we are in the right\nroad still, but we have nothing to boast of; our track has been made dark\nby your opposition, but still we have travelled on, believing that light\nis sown for the righteous, and we have realized it; to God be all the\npraise. If you and your adherents could have turned us into your course,\nyou would. We rejoice that we are in the furnace. Our deluded course, as\nit is termed, arises from three things that we practice: First, we are\ncalled Judaizers, because we keep the Sabbath according to the\ncommandment; our reasons for it, are with you. We say further that God set\nus the example, as he has the whole world. Jesus and the apostles\nfollowed, and so do we. Second, because we wash one another\u2019s feet, here\nwe have the plain and positive teaching and example of Jesus: \u201cIf I, then,\nthe master and the teacher, have washed your feet.\u2014Happy are ye who know\nthese things provided ye PRACTICE them.\u201d\u2014[Camp. trans.]\u2014John xiii. Third,\nthat we practice kissing.\u2014Here we have the teaching, of the great apostle\nto the Gentiles, to churches and households and every individual believer\nin Christ Jesus; see Rom. xvi: 3, 6, 12-16; 1st Thes. v: 26, \u201cGreet all\nthe brethren with a holy kiss;\u201d Phil. iv: 21. \u201cSalute every saint in\nChrist Jesus.\u201d Now I do not say but here is dangerous ground, and no doubt\nmany have fallen, because they could not stand the test, as Paul\u2019s\nbrethren could not the communion; but did Paul advise them to give it up\nbecause some had lost their lives for it? No! Well, then, the rule is the\nsame with us, not to yield because some have spiritually died. It is a\ntest of our fellowship for one another, and we may just as well be ashamed\nof the teachings of the bible as to be ashamed or afraid to practice what\nis clearly taught. Our course is onward; we leave you say what you please\nof us. We very clearly see if we persevere in this course, that it will\nlead us to immortality.\n\n                  -------------------------------------\n\nP. S. Some days after writing the above, an acquaintance of mine loaned me\nthe Advent Herald of Jan. 8th, 1848, to read the remarkable dream, which\nyou had in November last. I am glad that the Lord comforted you by giving\nyou this dream. Since I have read it, I do feel a hope that the Lord will\nyet save you from the delusive snare into which your pretended friends\nseemed to have drawn you. Joel\u2019s prophecy, quoted by Peter, at the\nPentecost, respecting dreams and visions of the last days, are not, in my\nview, fulfilled; nor cannot be, unless it can be proved that the _last_\ndays are past. I fully believe that God warns and instructs his children\nin various ways, when deep sleep is fallen upon them. There certainly are\nsome very remarkable cases on record in the Bible, and I as much believe\nthem, as other portions of his word.\n\nIt seemed to me that I could see some of the outlines of this dream; for\ninstance, the \u201ccuriously wrought casket, filled with all sorts and sizes\nof jewels, diamonds, precious stones, and gold and silver coin of every\ndimension and value, beautifully arranged in their several places in the\ncasket.\u201d These, I think, clearly represent the special treasure, the\njewels of the Lord of hosts, that are now being made up in this day of\ntrial, as saith Malachi; brought out and made manifest by the second\nadvent doctrine, which you began to give to the world some few years ago.\nMany of them, at that time, bound down by the sectarian creeds and\nformulas in Babylon, were aroused and won away by the soul-stirring\ndoctrine of the coming of Christ, in 1843 and \u201944. No wonder that your\nfriends, who then gathered around you, shouted for joy when they began\ncritically and earnestly to examine the curiously wrought casket, (the\nword of God,) and to see, the more they examined and expounded, the more\nthe diamonds and jewels increased in splendor, brilliancy and numbers,\n(converts from the churches and the world,) and scattering all over the\nland, (the centre table,) and in a few years throughout the world, every\nnation, kindred, tongue and people, (all over the floor and furniture.) By\nthis time the flying messengers in Rev. xiv, began to draw these jewels\nout into a clear place by themselves, (the Philadelphia state of the\nchurch,) saying, behold, the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him! As\nsoon as the disapointment came in Oct. 1844, then your counterfeit coin\nand immense quantities of spurious jewels (hypocrites and unbelievers)\nwere seen as you saw, scattered among the genuine. Here you felt the great\nresponsibility of the doctrine you had been propogating, and proclaimed\nthat our work for the world was done, and you was grieved to see that so\nfew of the great multitude which had appeared delighted with your\ndoctrine, really believed it. Hence you became \u201cvexed in your very soul,\nand began to use physical force to _push them out_.\u201d Here, I think is\nwhere you changed your views and course, in the spring of 1845, and united\nwith those that have been increasing three to one, as you saw, bringing in\ndirt, and sand, and shavings and all manner of rubbish and covered up both\nthe genuine and false jewels and diamonds, &c. These I think represent the\nfalse doctrine, since 1844, mixed up with almost every thing, and from\nevery where, calling the honest and confiding children of God almost any\nthing but their true names; thus covering them up with, as you saw, dirt,\nsand, shavings, and rubbish of all kinds; at the same time so covering up\nalso the spurious coin, (false teachers) that nothing of them, or of that\nbeauty and glory that was so apparent a little while since, can now as it\nwere, be seen, breaking in pieces your casket (the word of God) and\ntrampling it also under foot. Just look at the Sabbath controversy, for\none item, and the daubing with untempered mortar, this all absorbing\nsubject of Christ coming to Judgment, and compare it with Ezek. xxxiv\nchapter, particularly the 21, 22 and 31st verses, and surely it will be\nadmitted that \u201cthe Dream is certain and the interpretation thereof sure.\u201d\n\nAnd whereas thou sawest a man enter the room with a dirt brush and open\nthe windows to cleanse it of its filthiness at which time all the people\npassed out. The spurious coins also arose and passed out of the windows.\nThe room was then cleansed of all its rubbish. All the genuine diamonds,\nprecious coin and jewels, even to those not larger than the point of a\npin, were collected, and beautifully arranged in another casket, which,\nwhen the man called you to look into, caused you to shout with very joy.\n\n\u201cKnow therefore and understand;\u201d that in _this day_ of atonement, while\nour Great High Priest is cleansing the sanctuary, (blotting out his\npeople\u2019s sins,) preparing his jewels (Mal. iii: 17) of all sizes to enter\nthe splendid and most glorious mansions in the New Jerusalem, which he\npromised them, John xiv. And whereas thou wast not shown in thy dream, how\nthe first casket was prepared, that being unnecessary, as thine own\nexperience for the last few years would clearly come into thy mind, which,\nwhen compared with our history, brought to view in the xiv chapter of Rev.\nparticularly 6-11 verses, would show thee how it was done. And the oneness\nof the angel or messenger in performing this first work, will help thee to\nunderstand, how the man (or messenger) which thou sawest enter the room\nwill also be distinctly seen; since our great disappointment in Oct. 1844,\noperating under the divine guidance of the word and spirit, as far as can\nbe seen through the gross darkness and infidelity that is becoming more\nand more manifest; through all of their instrumentalities, such as prayer,\nexhortation, visiting, comforting, writing, especially epistolary\ncorrespondence, and all other proper means to ascertain the whereabouts,\nand the number of the scattered sheep of the house of Israel: even the\nmost lonely and most despised.\n\nWait patiently therefore and watch, remembering what God has taught in\nthese last few years respecting the clear fulfillment of his word in our\nexperience, and the perfect harmony we are now _made_ to see in _place_,\n_manner_ and _time_, for every point. As he had distinctly taught us, viz.\n\u201cWhich ye shall proclaim in their seasons.\u201d \u201cA time for all things.\u201d\n\u201cEvery thing on his day.\u201d \u201cNot one jot or tittle of the law to fail,\u201d even\n_the thoughts of God towards us to be perfectly considered in the latter_\n(or last) _days_.\u2014Jer. xxiii: 20. As therefore it required the space of a\nfew years to arrange and develope the first casket, so then here likewise\nmust be _order_ and _time_ to cleanse, prepare, and properly arrange, the\nsecond casket, by the same kind of instruments.\n\nAnd whereas thou didst cry to him to forbear for fear he would injure the\nprecious jewels, and he replied fear not, I will take care of them; that\nis, those that are \u201ckeeping the commandments of God and the faith of\nJesus,\u201d will not injure the jewels (their brethren) for they will act in\nharmonious concert, under the new commandments of their officiating great\nhigh priest and king.\n\nYour cry to forbear, looks ominous of further resistance and as for any of\nyour assistance in collecting, cleansing and arranging the jewels of the\nLord of hosts (the last casket,) it looks still more dubious, as it seems\nyou kept your eyes closed (in a quiet state,) until the jewels were all\narranged. This is the reason why you did not see the pains that the man\n(or messenger) took in arranging them.\n\nThis I fear, that you will not open your eyes to see this important work\nuntil the sealing time, and God speaks himself; but I cannot but still\nhope that your \u201cshout for very joy,\u201d will be one of triumph and\nredemption.\n\nSeveral nights before I saw your dream, I had finished writing your\nletter, I presented the subject of my work before the Lord again, for\nwisdom to direct me in all that I had, or may write for the benefit of his\nchildren, and the vindication of his word. And that I may do so, I asked\nfor a dream, vision, or any way that was consistent with his will to\ninstruct me. The next thing, as near as I can now recollect, was the\nfollowing\n\n\n    Dream.\n\n    A great tumult behind me, with corresponding commotion in the\n    heavens, so fully confirmed me that the Lord Jesus was coming,\n    that I began to sing and rejoice; very soon the people began to\n    assemble around me. They wanted to hear my opinion about the\n    coming of the Lord. I felt no spirit of communication; my work\n    seemed to be done, except to answer a few questions put to me by\n    one or two out of a great number of backslidden adventists that\n    seemed to be engaged in almost _any_ thing but the work of God.\n    This scene soon changed, and I was in meeting with a large\n    assembly of worshippers. The speaker arose and pointed to a man\n    that he said was under _conviction_; he seemed very anxious that I\n    should see him. The congregation seemed to have a oneness with the\n    speaker looking at him and myself. I looked, and although the\n    man\u2019s head was resting on the railing of the seat, I perceived\n    that it was an old neighbor of mine, who had lived and _died_ a\n    Universalist, several years ago. The preacher\u2019s theme, and whole\n    labor, was, look! behold! this man is under _conviction_! I\n    thought if they knew the man as well as I did, their wonder would\n    soon cease. No other effect was produced, by this effort, other\n    than to remind me of the extra exertions that had been made by the\n    leading professed adventists since the spring of 1845, to prove\n    that God was converting souls under their labors. Here the scene\n    changed again, the house was cleared, and the seats laid away. The\n    room now appeared very large, with a high stage at one end, on\n    which I was standing with an instrument like a mallet in my hand,\n    knocking off the top of a large box. A few spectators on one side,\n    and a large fleshy man, the owner of the box, on the other,\n    apparently very unwilling for me to open it. But it seemed a clear\n    duty that I was fully authorized to examine all contraband goods,\n    and therefore there was no resistance. As the top of the box flew\n    off, this man eagerly seized two or three bottles apparently\n    filled with water and hugged them close to him, silently waiting\n    the result of the examination. The box was about one-third full of\n    what appeared to be wooden feet and legs\u2014it seemed as though they\n    were painted idols. Among them was a very large glazed wide rimmed\n    hat, with the hatters block fitted into it. I looked up to the man\n    and exclaimed! what in the world did you smuggle this hat with a\n    block of wood in it, in here for. The man still grasping the\n    bottles, (I have thought emblematical of the water of life,)\n    darted away to the east end of the room, and entered what appeared\n    to me a closet door painted light blue, from which I could\n    discover no light. Now, dear sir, as I have candidly, and\n    prayerfully attempted to interpret your dream, will you write the\n    interpretation of mine, and receive my love and earnest desire for\n    your perfect reconciliation with God, and all his precious jewels\n    in the last casket.\n\n\n\n\n\nJOSEPH BATES. SCRIPTURAL OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.\n\n\nThe only safe rule, is according to the commandment; see Exo. xx: 8-11.\nThis is the manner the disciples kept it; Luke xxiii: 56. The great God of\nheaven instituted the Sabbath, or day of rest, when he ended his six days\nwork of creation, rested himself and sanctified the day, and thereby set\nthe example for man. As there was but one man then, it is evident that it\nwas not made for him alone, nor for any particular nation or people that\nshould afterwards come\u2014for he is said to be \u201cno respecter of persons.\u201d\nSome think it was made for the Jews alone; but the commandment refers us\nto the creation, twenty-five hundred years before there was a Jew on\nearth. It also requires the stranger (the Gentile) to keep it, and God has\npromised to make him joyful in his house of prayer, by doing so; Isa. lvi:\n6, 7. He has also given this day of rest to the beasts of burden, and\nmakes man accountable for causing them to violate his day. They cannot\nspeak for themselves; how important, therefore, that we should not, in any\nway, allow our beast to labor on that day. But, says the objector, surely\nthere is no harm in using my horse to carry my family three or five miles\nto meeting on the Sabbath. The word says \u201cobedience is better than\nsacrifice.\u201d If the meeting cannot be nearer home, and we cannot walk, why,\nthen go before the Sabbath commences and stay until the day has ended. If\na general meeting, and all cannot be accommodated, then it would be proper\nto have it some other day. God has plainly taught us how we shall keep\nthis day: \u201cWe are not to do our pleasure on his holy day, but call the\nSabbath a _delight_, the _holy_ of the Lord, _honorable_, and shalt _honor\nhim_, not doing our own _ways_, nor finding _our own pleasure_, nor\n_speaking our own words_, then thou shalt _delight_ thyself in the Lord,\u201d\nand he will bless thee. See also what to us an unaccountable promise God\nmade to his chosen people, if they would not carry any burdens in nor out\nof their houses, nor do any work on the Sabbath day: \u201cThe city of\nJerusalem should stand forever.\u201d\u2014Jer. xvii: 22-25; see also how Nehemiah\nenforced the sacredness of the day,\u2014xiii: 15-21. Moses also, and many\nothers; shewing clearly that God gave more directions about the fourth\ncommandment, and greater promises, than for all others of his laws, and\nsays \u201cVerily, my Sabbaths ye shall keep that ye may know that I, the Lord,\ndo sanctify you.\u201d And as I think that I have made it plain and positive\nfrom the scriptures alone, that the Sabbath was never changed nor\nabolished, then how simple, plain and safe to follow the example of our\nFather in heaven. Surely no living person can be condemned for this. Then\nlet us keep the day as the bible teaches us that he did.\n\nThe Sabbath, God says, is a sign and covenant between him and the children\nof Israel _forever_; see Exo. xxxi: 16, 17; Ezek. xx: 12, 20. Read the\ncurse that followed their violating it\u2014xxii: 8, 25-28. Do you still say\nthis is only for the Jewish dispensation? read in Deut. vii: 9, the\npromise to them who keep his commandments to a _thousand_ generations.\nSuppose a generation to be thirty years: then you have 24,000 years yet to\ncome. But allow the scripture rule, _seventy years_, and then we have not\nreached that point by at least 64,000 years. Do you think his mercy will\ncease then, so many ages after immortality? It is not in the power of man\nto make a figure of this. Some other passages regard generation and\ngeneration, without limitation.\n\n\n\n\n\nUNDER THE GOSPEL.\n\n\nChrist, the Son of God, and his Disciples, kept the same Sabbath\u2014(it is\nfolly to speak of any other, the scriptures forbid it.) He was the Lord of\nthe Sabbath, and he said it \u201cwas made for _man_.\u201d\u2014Mark ii: 27, 28. For\nwhat man?\u2014[See article, 2d Pillar.] He says he kept his Father\u2019s\ncommandments. Paul says they are holy, just and good. John says, they are\nfrom the _beginning_, and points a company who are now keeping them. James\ntells us we are to keep the whole\u2014surely the Sabbath is here; God himself,\nsays it is.\u2014Exo. xvi: 27, 28, and xx: 8-11.\n\nJesus, then, is our example. Surely we shall not err if we follow him.\nRespecting working, cooking, making fires, &c. &c., please see my reply to\nBarnabas. Jesus always preached on the Sabbath, and healed, and wrought\nmiracles, and blessed his honest followers. And I know for one that he\nblesses them still, who worship on that day; see Mark vi: 2, \u201cAnd when the\nSabbath day was come, he began to teach in their synagogues,\u201d \u201cas his\ncustom was.\u201d Luke iv: 16, 31, he asked \u201cif it was lawful to do well on the\nSabbath days?\u201d If we can do good in like manner, we shall be perfectly\nsafe; if better, try it. Just read in the following passages, how and what\nhe did. His being judged by primitive and modern professors, is no rule\nfor us, \u201cWhat is that to thee, follow thou me.\u201d\u2014Matt. xii: 1-15. He shows\nthat his disciples were \u201cguiltless for eating,\u201d 7th v. They were soon into\ntheir meeting; see, he\u2019s at work immediately, 13th v.; see Luke xiii:\n11-17, healing the woman; how withering his reply to his enemies, 14th v.\nI would that his adversaries were as much ashamed now; 17th v. See xiv.\nchapter, 1-6, and 7-14; here he went in to eat bread on the Sabbath day;\n1st v., here he cures the dropsy and teaches them how to treat the poor,\n&c. See also John v: 1-20, and vii: 21-24, he shows that all of this is\nnot (servile work) but works of mercy and necessity. He even instructed\nhis disciples, Jew and Gentile, respecting the sanctity of THE Sabbath,\nthirty-six years after his death, Matt. xxiv: 20. In chapter v, he shows\nthat the keeping of the _law_, &c., will make us great in the kingdom of\nheaven, 17-19. Then in 38-48 verses, shows us that under the Gospel, we\nare to follow his teachings and that we are now about to make the change\nfrom the ministration of Moses to that of his own, in the Gospel. Do see\nhow _John_ puts it together, Rev. xii: 17; xiv: 12, explained to be the\nspirit of prophecy, in xix: 10. Now every law with respect to the keeping\nthe commandments and of course the Sabbath, is embraced in the testimony\nof Jesus. The special messenger of the Lord to the Gentiles, to teach them\nthe abolition of Moses\u2019s ministration in the law, observed the Sabbath in\nobedience to his master; see Acts xvii: 2: xiii: 42-44, preaching to the\nGentiles, 42 v.; xvi: 13, by the water side; xviii: 4, every Sabbath; 11\nv. seventy-eight in succession. Luke records these, many years after the\nlaw of Moses was abolished. John had his vision on the Lord\u2019s day. Jesus\nnever claimed any day for his, but the seventh-day Sabbath, Mark ii: 28;\nneither did his Father, Exo. xx: 10. Therefore, in following the authority\nand example of God, Jesus Christ, and the holy Apostles, we shall meet our\nglorious king with clear consciences. We never need to fear of keeping the\nholy and sanctified Sabbath day too strict. We cannot keep it holy, nor\nacceptable, if we employ _men_ or _beasts_ to labor for us on that day,\nneither printers, postmasters, nor carriers. The day is not ours, it is\nthe Lord\u2019s: follow the Scripture rule, and the Sabbath will be a delight\nto us, and God will sanctify and save.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BEGINNING OF THE SABBATH.\n\n\nHere, also, we cannot be too particular; God claims every moment of his\nday. Out of one hundred and sixty-eight hours in the week he claims\ntwenty-four, and gives man the balance, one hundred and forty-four, to do\nhis servile work. According to the record of Moses, in Gen. i: 2, God\ncommenced the motion of this Planet from a chaotic state of darkness, and\nsent it flying round the sun at the rate of about fifty-eight thousand\nmiles per hour. He \u201cdivided the light from the darkness, and God called\nthe light day, and the darkness he called night, and the evening and the\nmorning were the first day,\u201d\u20144, 5. God \u201cmade the sun and the moon; the sun\nto rule the day, and the moon the night, to divide the light from\ndarkness.\u201d\n\nJesus says \u201care there not twelve hours in the day?\u201d Well, then, there must\nbe twelve hours in the night, to make a twenty-four hour day, and it must\nbe equally divided, for us to keep the weeks correct. For example\u2014say now\nthe first of Jan., the inhabitants of the north pole have no sun, while\nthose at the south have the sun all the twenty-four hours; now as we\napproximate to the centre or middle of the globe from the south pole, we\nshorten the days, but from the north we shorten the nights; when arrived\nat the centre, or under the sun, (the great time piece for the inhabitants\nof all the earth, Deut. iv: 19,) we find the days and nights are equal. At\nthe beginning of the sacred year, for the passover, the sun rises at 6 A.\nM. and sets at 5 P. M., and there is not an inhabitant on any part of this\nglobe that can regulate the time for day, or night without admitting the\npolar distance into his calculation, which is 90\u00b0 from the centre. This at\nonce shows that all the way we can calculate time is by calculating from\nthe centre of the earth, and also bringing the sun there, if his\ndeclination be north or south. Therefore by the same rule (and no other,)\nwe regulate the weeks, and must of necessity begin the scripture day at 6\nP. M., or else being in one place, we never have two Sabbaths begin at one\ntime. Says the objector we might begin at sunset. If so, no two persons\ncould keep the same time except they were directly north or south of each\nother. But can they keep the same time all over the globe if they begin at\nsix P. M.? Yes, certainly. For example.\u2014Jerusalem being about 90\u00b0, or\nfifty-four hundred geographical miles east of us, makes a difference of\nsix hours; it is six P. M. with them when it is noon day with us; their\nSabbath closes then, six hours before it does with us\u2014but it is at six\no\u2019clock P. M. there. And so when the Sabbath closes here, although it is\nprecisely the same hour of the day, viz. six P. M., and in like manner all\nround the globe. Hence the necessity of beginning the twenty-four hour day\nat sun set from the centre of the earth. We are told that we cannot keep\ntime right, because men, who circumnavigate the globe, make a difference\nof twenty-four hours in time. Well, suppose men could girt the globe with\ntheir magnetic wires, so that half of the inhabitants of the United States\ncould pass clear round ten times a day, what odds would that make to the\nmotion of the globe. This looks like another snare of Satan. The change\nfrom old to new style, they say, if eleven days are taken from the\ncalender then that certainly has changed the seventh day, but some how or\nother it does not affect the first day, Sunday. How is it done? say some\ntwo hundred members in the British Parliament on Thursday, at six P. M.\nthe first day of Jan. pass a unanimous vote by uplifted hands that we drop\neleven days from the calendar. Now all the change here, is, it is now a\nfew minutes past six P. M. on the same Thursday night called the eleventh\nof Jan. God never stopped the earth\u2019s motion one moment to listen to them.\nThis certainly did not effect the day of the week, any more than the sun\u2019s\nstanding still a whole day, that being true also, at 4 P. M., did not\nprevent them from counting Friday when it came. If he stood still for\ntwenty-four hours, then no time would be lost to us, for Friday could not\ncome until six, P. M., two hours after he started again. If it had been\nless than twenty-four hours then must it be regulated. The shadow going\nback ten degrees or forty minutes on the dial of Ahas, (\u201cnot ten hours,\u201d)\nwas another miracle, but it remains to be proved that the _sun_ went back.\nIf any thing could possibly affect the time before the christian era,\nJesus certainly had the correct _time_, _the Sabbath_ before he was\ncrucified. Astronomers can find no change since. If the christian era was\nfour years out of date, it does not follow that the day of the week has\nchanged since God instituted the Sabbath in Paradise. Gen. first chapter\nteaches when the sun is up it is day or morning; when he is down it is\nnight, or evening. God reckoned the first six days from evening to\nmorning; but further on, in the history of the world, he says \u201cfrom even\nto even shall you celebrate your Sabbath,\u201d or rest. This proves that every\nday in the week began at evening; so it must continue while we have day\nand night. Surely God has done all things well, but man has sought out\nmany inventions. God help the little flock to follow the truth, and\n\u201cRemember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.\u201d Amen.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE LAST EXPERIMENT ON DEFINITE TIME; THE PROLONGING OF THE DAYS _ALL_\nFAILED.\n\n\nIn 1843, the Herald and Midnight Cry for many months stated that all the\nsigns preparatory to the second coming of Christ, were in the past. Soon\nafter the passing of the _time_ in 1844, they changed their minds and told\nus that we had but \u201cjust entered upon the ground of disputed chronology\nand that we should be justified in looking with more and more confidence\nto the extreme boundary of 1847, the extreme point of time in\n_dispute_.\u201d\u2014See Advent Harbinger, Sept. 28th, 1847. On the strength of\nthis, A. Hale came out with his definite time\u2014LAST EXPERIMENT.\n\nWell, we have now come to Jan. 1848, and all has failed. What is the\nmatter? Answer\u2014the disputed time was properly named; there is no truth in\nit. It is all a perfect failure; hence all their boasting ends with it. We\nsay the cry at midnight, was right, and the appointed time did end in the\nfall of 1844, as shown in the _Way Marks_. We will now try some further\nproof, and still farther that their confessions and reorganization have\nfairly led them into the Laodocean state of the Church. They say that\nChrist may come any time; this is the teaching of all three of the\nEditors, and some of them talk loudly about the ending of the 2300 days,\nat that point of time. How vain to assert that the 2300 days will end\nhere, the first of January. It is well known that the spring, or fall is\nthe only place ever fixed for their ending.\n\nThose who believe that Christ was crucified any where but in the middle of\nthe week are teaching, as H. H. Gross, that his advent will be in the\nspring. Those who still believe in the types, and that Christ was\ncrucified in the midst or half of the week can see no place for the ending\nof the 2300 days or the advent of Jesus, but in the seventh month. Neither\ncan the 6000 years end any where but in the seventh month; the proof is\nclear in Gen. i: 11, 12, and 29, that the seed and fruit was ripe for the\nharvest when God finished his six days; proof, Adam and Eve partook of it.\nIt is also perfectly clear that God changed the beginning of the year from\nthence to the first month, to commence the feasts of the Lord and the\ntypes to which we have, and still may, refer; see Exo. xii: 2; xiii: 3, 4;\nxxxiv: 18; Deut. xvi: 1. This was the beginning of months and the\nbeginning of the year, the passover month.\n\nNow we say here, according to the scriptures, Christ was crucified on the\n14th day of Abib, or April, in the midst (or middle) of the week, meaning\nthe last week of the seventy. This is just 486-\u00bd years; then the balance\n_eighteen hundred and thirteen and a half_ years more, would just make the\n2300 days, or years. Now carry the half year from the Passover to the fall\nof the seventh month, then you will have just 1813 full years to come.\nThen, of course, every full year unto the last, must end here; and it is\nnot in the power of man to make them end any where else, but in the\nseventh month. Neither is it in the power of any adventist, who says he\nbelieves in the speedy coming of Christ, to show any thing about their\nending, since Oct. 1844, because we never have, and it is not likely we\never shall know of any other place or point, for their ending. If the\nbeating of the air, three years, has proved a failure, and made the\nsubject gross darkness, what can be expected from a farther experiment. If\nany one disputes this point, he will confer a great favor by showing where\nthey do end.\n\nThere is _one_ more point; that is, God\u2019s people are now in their trial\nforetold by prophets and apostles; and in their every day experience. If\nthey deny this, then they cannot look for Jesus, because that trial must\ntake place here in _time_; and according to the type, it must be while\nJesus our great high priest is cleansing the sanctuary\u2014for by turning to\nLev. xxiii: 27-32 verses, we see the type of affliction was always on the\ntenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement, and it continued\nall the time that the high priest was in the most holy place, cleansing\nthe sanctuary. The reason for this is obvious; if we turn to Lev. xvi:\n15\u2014\u201cAnd he shall make an atonement for the holy place _because_ of the\n_uncleanness_ of the _children_ of _Israel_, and _because_ of _their\ntransgressions in all their sins_,\u201d &c.; see also 29-34 verses,\nparticularly the 30th verse. Then the true meaning of the cleansing of the\nsanctuary is, Christ our high priest in the sanctuary which the Lord\npitched and not man; Heb. xiii: 2, that is, the new Jerusalem in the\nheavens, making atonement, or blotting out the sins of his true waiting\npeople; and while he is doing this, they are in their trial. \u201cHere is the\npatience of the Saints,\u201d as it was in the type referred to, with this\ndifference\u2014their day and trial and atonement was \u201cfrom even to even,\u201d just\ntwenty-four hours, whereas ours is to be from the tenth \u201cday of the\nseventh month, until God roars out of Zion and utters his voice from\nJerusalem,\u201d then Jerusalem will be _holy_, the atonement will be\nfinished.\u2014Joel iii: 16, 17\u2014God\u2019s people be cleansed, sealed, and the\ncaptivity of Zion turned. This will be the shaking of the Heavens and the\nearth, the sea and all nations. Matt. xxiv: 29; Amos i: 2; Hagg. ii: 6-7;\nJer. xxv: 30, 31; Heb. xii: 26; Eze. xiii: 25, 28. According to the signs\ngiven by Jesus, the next after this will be the sign of the son of man in\nheaven; \u201cAnd then the son of man.\u201d\u2014Matt. xxiv: 30. But as the world is to\nbe taken by surprise, \u201ccrying peace and safety,\u201d they will not long be\ntroubled with the shaking of the heavens and earth, it will pass from the\nmind, most likely, as has the _cry at mid-night_, so that after this,\nChrist will \u201ccome as a thief.\u201d But I do not design now to take up the\nargument, but merely refer to these points to show our position. For\nfurther reference, see Way Marks. I now propose to show the certain\nfailure and confusion of all those Adventists who have denied the past,\nand the ending of the 2300 days. As I have already shown, they have\nprolonged, or, as in Prov. x: 27, \u201cadded to the days.\u201d The 2300 days, all\nthe time from where they ended, Oct. 1844, to the extreme end of 1847,\nwhich would be three and a half years. Hosea calls this removing the\nbounds; well, we see they have finally moved them 1260 days. But God calls\nto Ezekiel and says: \u201cWhat is that proverb that ye have in the land of\nIsrael, saying the days are prolonged, and every vision faileth. _Tell\nthem therefore_, thus saith the Lord God, I will make this proverb to\ncease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel, but say unto\nthem the days are at hand and the effect of every vision, for there shall\nbe no more any vain vision, nor faltering devination within the house of\nIsrael; For I am the Lord, I will speak, and the word that I shall speak\nshall come to pass; It shall be no more prolonged, for in your days, O\nrebellious house, I will say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord\nGod\u201d xii: 22-25. Three things here we notice; first, that the effect of\nevery vision is to fail with the rebellious house of Israel. This, then,\nmost certainly includes the _effect_ of Daniel\u2019s vision on the second\nadvent believers, it is the _effect_ of _every vision_. The effect of\nJohn\u2019s vision fails with this. Now we actually know that the _effect_ of\nDaniel\u2019s vision since 1842, has caused the whole world to tremble. We have\nno account in history that any vision, or all the visions of the prophets\ntogether, ever _began_, as it were, to have such an EFFECT as was produced\ndown to Oct. 1844. _From that time the effect began to cease._ Second,\nhere at the end of the prolonging of the days then, of this vision, God is\nto speak. It is well known that he never has spoken to the world since\nthese prophets were born; therefore this is in the future, and right here\nat this point of time, and after this _effect_, and before the coming of\nJesus. Third, then these days spoken of here are no other than the days of\nDaniel\u2019s vision, to measure time, for Ezekiel\u2019s vision nor any other\nvision given to the prophets, have chronological time to mark their\nfulfillment, save Daniel\u2019s and John\u2019s. Respecting the rebellious house of\nIsrael, the prophets plainly and emphatically describe them to be in these\nlast days, according to the texts above. The 27th and 28th verses of this\nxii chapter of Ezekiel, is more emphatic still: \u201cThey of the house of\nIsrael (same rebellious house,) say the vision that he seeth is for many\ndays to come, (yes, it is already advocated that it is thirty years, in\nthe future,) he prophesieth of the times that are far off.\u201d God says\n\u201cthere shall none of my words be prolonged _any more_, but the word which\nI have _spoken_ shall be done saith the Lord God.\u201d Here, then, if we will\nbelieve God, no man after the prolonging of the days shall do it any more;\nthat is, after the effect of the vision. What is the sign? Answer\u2014God\nsays, _He will_ SPEAK. This, then, will end _all_ the controversy. Now our\nhistory fully proves that the prolonging of the 2300 days with the effect\nof the vision, is claimed, to the end of the Jewish year of 1847, this\nspring. Now mark this! The rebellious house continue to say that these\ndays, say Daniel\u2019s 2300, will not end until the coming of Christ, and he\nmay come any time. I think I have proved conclusively that the 2300 days\ncannot end any where but in the seventh month; and the above scriptures\nand our history do clearly show that they have ended, and the time has\nbeen prolonged to the end of 1847. Now the seventh month 1847, is past,\nand this was the last point in their land marks, where the types, or\nseventy weeks shows they could end. It is impossible for any man to show\ntheir ending in the coming spring; and they have by their own showing\nforever shut themselves out for saying it will be in the fall of 1848,\nbecause this spring is the very extreme point to which the days are, or\ncan be, prolonged. Here then, I say, according to the heading of this\narticle, their last experiment fails, and fails them forever; they have no\npoint to guide them to now, it is all gross darkness. Now if this is what\nthe Bible Advocate calls \u201cfollowing the word of God and sound reason,\u201d I\nam glad that the shut door and Sabbath believers, are on the other side of\nthe gulf, with \u201clight in all of their dwellings.\u201d\n\nNow let Zachariah, the prophet, finish this subject. In his peculiar view\nof the wonderful things to take place in the last days from the tenth to\nthe fourteenth chapter inclusive, he says, \u201cAnd it shall come to pass that\nin all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and\ndie, but the third shall be left therein, and I will bring the third part\nthrough the fire and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try\nthem as gold is tried; _they shall_ call on my name and I will hear them,\nI WILL SAY IT IS MY PEOPLE; and THEY _shall say_ THE LORD IS MY\nGOD.\u201d\u2014xiii: 8, 9. Here then, is clearly pointed out the believers in the\ncoming of Christ; a cry at mid-night shows first, but two parts; but\nbefore Christ comes Zachariah shows three parts. Now for the development\nof the history. The first is already described, by prolonging the days and\ndenying the past. The three papers Advent Herald, Advent Harbinger and\nBible Advocate, are still advocating their views, and as I have shown,\n_cut_ themselves off. Second, class or part, are the spiritualizers; a\nlarge majority of which have joined the Shakers, whose faith is, that\nChrist came the second time in Ann Lee, more than seventy years ago, thus\nforever _cutting_ themselves off from even looking for his personal\nappearing; John calls them anti-christ\u2014thus, \u201cLittle children it is the\nlast time, and as ye have heard that anti-christ _shall come_, even now\nare there many anti-christs (i. e. don\u2019t believe in any Christ\u2014he is God,\nand God is love, &c.) whereby we know it is the last time: They went out\nfrom us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would\nno doubt have continued with us; but they went out that _they_ be made\n_manifest_ that they were not all of us. Who is a liar but he that denieth\nthat Jesus is the Christ? _He is anti-christ_ that denieth the Father and\nSon.\u201d\u20141st John ii: 18-22 verses. John classes all such with _liars_, and\nthey are barred from the kingdom of heaven. In the 19th verse he says,\n\u201cthey were not ALL of us.\u201d This I think shows that some would see their\nerror and repent. John here embraces _all_ such believers from his day to\nthe last. Here, then it is clearly manifest that this second part have cut\nthemselves off! The third part are now in the fire (or fiery trial.); they\nare to be _refined_ as silver, and _tried_ as gold; they shall call on\nGod, and they will be his people. They have nothing to boast of, they have\ngot to overcome \u201cby their perseverance.\u201d\u2014[_Camp. trans._ of Luke xxi: 19.]\nJesus also distinguishes them from the other parts: \u201cThey have a little\nstrength (nothing to boast of,) and hast kept my word and hast not _denied\nmy name_.\u201d Which one? New name\u2014King of Kings and Lord of Lords.\u2014Rev. iii:\n8, 12. The first and second classes have denied his name. The first say he\nis the Mediator, and therefore cannot have received his kingdom; the\nsecond class have dissolved his name into vapor. Ninth verse shows they\nhave got to bow to his third part, because _they_ have kept the word of\nhis patience: Where is it shown that they do this? Answer\u2014in Rev. xiv:\n12th verse, \u201c_Here is the patience of the Saints_; here are they that keep\nthe commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.\u201d Yes! here are they who\nare denounced as \u201c_door shutters_\u201d and \u201cgreat _sticklers_ for the _seventh\nday Sabbath_, in and out of _almost every door_ but the right one,\nfollowing _any thing_ but the _word_ of God and _sound reason_!\u201d triumphed\nat last. How amazing these things appear; not more so perhaps than to the\nprophets when looking down into our history and beholding this first class\ncomposed of the leading messengers and about all of the shepherds, after\nleading the whole flock out into the most dangerous part of their journey,\ndesert, denounce, and betray them; and then go and form themselves into a\nconfederacy and positively disregard the message which God pressed upon\nthem, viz. \u201cComfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God,\u201d &c. I\nrejoice in my soul and praise the _living_ God, who is seated upon this\nGreat White Throne in the height of his Sanctuary in the heaven of\nheavens, that I am still numbered in this third part. Call me what you\nplease, my feet are planted on the _Rock_. I had rather suffer affliction\nwith the Outcasts, than enjoy the pleasures of sin with all other people.\nPraise the Lord! if faithful, we shall soon enter the everlasting kingdom.\nAmen.\n\n\n\n\n\nCHRIST\u2019S SECOND COMING TO GATHER HIS PEOPLE.\n\n\nAccording to the Scriptures, God will deliver his people out of the time\nof trouble that is now flying from the coasts of the earth, and to all\nappearances forming a junction in this retributive land of blood and\nslavery; by his VOICE _from heaven_, when he has sealed them, and Christ\nhas made the atonement and fitted the mansions in the New Jerusalem, then\nthey will be his chosen ones to execute the \u201cjudgment written.\u201d After\nthis, in the order of events, the Lord Jesus \u201cwill descend from heaven\nwith a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,\u201d\n&c. When God speaks from Jerusalem, then, I believe the \u201cwise will\nunderstand\u201d how long it will be before Jesus comes. \u201cThe times and seasons\nare with the Father.\u201d I believe that the Scriptures most clearly teach\nChrist\u2019s second coming at the feast of Tabernacles, and no where else; and\nthat our history, in the fulfillment of prophecy, has been imperceptibly\ntending us there. Here is the chain in the types: \u201cTHREE _times a year\nshall_ ALL _thy males appear before the Lord thy God_.\u201d These three feasts\nare typical of three of the most important events since the birth of our\nLord Jesus Christ, and every advent believer should have a clear\nunderstanding of them. 1st, The feast of the Passover; 2d, Feast of Weeks;\n3d, Feast of Tabernacles.\n\n_First feast_ was the crucifixion of our Lord at the Passover, on the 14th\nday of the first month, at 3 o\u2019clock P. M.; the very day and hour the lamb\nwas offered in the type for sixteen hundred and seventy years.\n\n_Second feast_\u2014the day of Pentecost, 1670 years from the time that the\ncommandments were uttered by the voice of God, in the morning.\u2014Exo. xix:\n16; see Acts ii: 15, undoubtedly at the same hour. Now as these two feasts\nare perfectly fulfilled, we have nothing further to do with them here;\nonly to say, that God never taught any other way to find the fulfillment\nof these two most important events, than by their typical observance.\n\n_Third feast_\u2014on the 15th of the seventh month; the feast of the\nTabernacles. This undoubtedly represents the gathering of all Israel at\nthe coming of Christ; the ingathering of the harvest; the end of the 6000\nyears: the end of the world. I see no other point of time for Christ to\ncome than at the feast; see Deut. xvi: 1-16: Lev. xxiii; Num. xxviii, and\nxxix. It cannot be possible that God has been so exact in the fulfillment\nof the first two, to the very hour of the day, and then left the other\nwithout _order or time_! No, no! Here is the gathering of all Israel; see\nLev. xxiii: 39-44. Now, this being true, all of the other events which\nprecede this in this chapter, must, to harmonize with the types, be\nfulfilled first. Now there are three types in this feast; their harmony\nand order are as follows: First,\u201424th verse is the memorial of trumpets.\nThis is the type of the sounding of the seventh trumpet; there is nothing\nelse for an anti-type\u2014try and see. Than it is fulfilled, by Rev. x: 7\u2014\u201cIn\nthe days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,\nthe Mystery of God should be finished.\u201d &c. This then, we have shown,\nsounded on the first day of the seventh month, 1844. Here the virgins were\ndivided, and the wise ones got ready for the coming of the Bridegroom to\nthe marriage. See _Way Marks_, 35 to 37th pages.\n\n_Second type_\u201427th verse\u2014\u201cAlso on the 10th day of the seventh month, there\nshall be a day of atonement,\u2014ye shall afflict your souls, for whatsoever\nsoul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut\noff from among his people.\u201d This, of course, was artificial; but it was a\ntype to represent the tried state which the virgins in the parable entered\ninto on the tenth day of this seventh month, 1844, when they see their\nLord did not come. Here is where the atonement commenced with the\naffliction, and as they ended together in the type, so we believe they\nwill in the anti-type, when God speaks from Zion.\u2014Joel iii: 16, 17; see\n_Way Marks_, pp. 58, 59. Now it is certainly evident that God\u2019s people are\nin this very state. This, then, according to the type, proves the\nBridegroom as High Priest, officiating in the Sanctuary, making the\natonement for this same people.\n\n_The third type_ in order, and the last in this feast, is the feast of\nTabernacles, 34-39-44th verses. This is yet to come\u2014the true point of our\ndeliverance. What a harmonious perfect chain is here. Just see first day\nof seventh month, 1844; the seventh trumpet sounds, and the Mystery of God\nis finished; third wo come; virgins divide; on the tenth day of the same\nmonth, Bridegroom comes to the wedding; marriage takes place; door shut;\nJubilee trumpet sounds to prepare for the Jubilee and Supper in the\nkingdom of heaven; cleansing of the Sanctuary commenced; the virgins on\ntheir trial; the appointed time, the 2300 days ended, and a cry at\nmidnight, with all its messages. If the seventh trumpet has began to\nsound, then the rest have followed. If the saints are now in their trial,\nthen, the seventh trumpet must have sounded first, or confusion would\nfollow in the types. Destroy one link, and the chain is broke. Take it in\nall its parts, it is perfect, harmonious, and complete. Here, too, I\nunderstand, ends all the days of Daniel. The chart is perfect, and has\nanswered its end. The world here also received their last warning. The\nGospel age ends; the message is, \u201ccomfort ye, comfort ye _my_ people.\u201d If\nthis was not all done before Christ should come, the scriptures would be\nbroken. It is perfect nonsense to talk of having these things done at his\ncoming, or after he comes. Tell me, if you can, how Christ can atone for\nhis people in the Holiest of Holies, at his coming? And then tell me where\nthe saints are to be on their trial, if they wait his coming first? Tell\nme, if you can, where you will place the third wo, which brings in the\ntime of trouble, of which the saints are to be delivered? Tell me, if you\ncan, how, and for what purpose the seventh messenger will begin to sound\nhis trumpet, while Jesus is sounding the trump of God, and shouting for\nhis saints to leave the earth in a moment? And as the seventh messenger is\nsome of the living saints, tell me, if you can, how they will have time\neven to turn and say the Mystery of God is finished? Tell me, if you can,\nwhy God is going to have every thing in confusion at that day, when he has\nalways had perfect order in heaven and earth, ever since the creation? Two\nthings to be kept in remembrance:\n\nFIRST\u2014The 11th chapter of Revelations does not teach the coming of Christ\nin the spring, nor at any other point.\n\nSECOND\u2014The ingathering of _all_ Israel _after the Voice of God_ is most\nclearly taught to be at the feast of Tabernacles, the last type in the\nfeast, yet unfulfilled. All the others that have been, and are _now_\nfulfilling in these feasts of the Lord, have been tested to the day, and\neven to the hour of the day.\n\n\n\n\nA CORRECTION.\n\n\nI perceive that I have made a mis-statement, on page 56, 13th line; also\npage 59, sixth line from the top, in calling the 15th day of the first\nmonth, a holy convocation day, instead of the 14th, which always commenced\nat the beginning of the 14th day and ended where the 21st began.\u2014Exo. xii:\n18. The wafe sheaf also, was to be waved on Sunday morning, the morrow\nafter the Lord\u2019s Sabbath\u2014Lev. xxiii: 3, 11\u2014all which makes the\nresurrection on the third day as clear as light\u2014two nights and three days.\n\n\n\n\nSEVENTH & FOURTEENTH OF REVELATIONS.\n\n\nA further History of the Second Advent Doctrine, from its commencement to\nthe treading of the Wine Press, &c.\n\n\n    With The One Hundred And Forty-Four Thousand Living Saints, Which\n    Are To Be Gathered At The Second Coming Of Jesus, From Every\n    Nation, Kindred, Tongue, And People; Especially Those That Are Now\n    Occupying The Position Referred To In The Twelfth And Thirteenth\n    Verses Of The Fourteenth Chapter.\n\n\nSecond Advent History.\n\nIn the fourteenth chapter of Revelations, John gives a most graphic\ndelineation of the Second Advent movement, from its rise in about 1840, to\na glorious state of immortality. He begins to describe from this\nnever-to-be-over-looked, wonderful picture of the last days, forming, and\nchanging in quick succession, under the deep impressions made on the\nheart, by the heavenly flying messengers, saying with loud voices\u2014the hour\nof his judgment is come; and reminds one in some of its features, in the\nchanging of positions, of that last dreadful conflict of nations, on the\nplains of Waterloo, which decided the fate of Europe. So here, in this\nlast great conflict of contending armies, John, in his vision, hears a\nglorious voice, [see i: 15 and xix: 6.] and harpers harping with their\nharps. His eye is turned to the point from whence came the heavenly music,\nand he beholds a glorified company, with their INVINCIBLE Commander,\nstanding away up on the Mount Zion, that had followed him through his\nfiery trying conflict, and he had brought them off victorious, and clothed\nthem with immortality and everlasting life; and the Father had stamped\n\u201chis name in their foreheads,\u201d and they numbered 144,000, redeemed from\nthe earth; all the living saints that are saved out of the mighty host of\nnations. Now read the first five verses of this chapter and methinks you\nwill agree with me, that John is here describing the character of the\n144,000 as he had seen them sealed, as stated in the seventh chapter;\nwhere he closes their history with the 8th verse, to describe the dead\nsaints, and seven angels with their trumpets, and the effect produced by\nthem, from the 7th chapter, 9th verse to the 12th chapter. Then in the\n12th and 13th chapters, the dragon, the beast and his image, &c., &c. And\nthen he takes up the history of this same 144,000, from where he had seen\nthem sealed in the 7th chapter, 4-8 verses; and begins by describing them\nsealed and redeemed from the earth, in company with the Lamb\u2014the Lord\nJesus. From the 6th to the 14th verse, he gives the outline of what they\nhad been passing through, and the mighty host with whom they had been\nengaged. It will here be remembered that this message, or proclamation of\n\u201cthe hour of his judgment,\u201d has gone to every nation and tongue, and\npeople; therefore as Jesus has stated that his elect are to be gathered\nfrom the four winds, or from one end of heaven to the other, then his\n144,000 will be composed of all nations, particularly the poor ignorant,\nbut honest hearted Slaves of this doomed country. But more especially\nthose described in the 12th verse, walking out in their faith of all the\nliving _present truth_.\n\nAn objection may arise with some; still, supposing that the 144,000,\nbecause they are named after the tribes of Jacob in the 7th chapter, they\ncannot mean the Israel of these last days. Micah, speaking of Jesus, says,\n\u201cHe is _to be_ the ruler in Israel.\u201d\u2014v: 1-2. Gabriel said he would \u201creign\nover the house of Jacob _forever_.\u201d\u2014Luke i: 33. Paul says \u201cthey are not\n_all_ Israel that are of Israel;\u201d \u201cIf ye be Christ\u2019s then are ye Abraham\u2019s\nseed and heirs according to the promise.\u201d When John was afterwards giving\na description of the holy city, he even saw the names of the twelve tribes\nof the children of Israel inscribed on the twelve gates. This agrees with\nthe description in the 7th chapter, and makes a perfect harmony when we\nunderstand that this vision was sixty years after the introduction of the\ngospel, when the church was the whole Israel of God. The other view would\ngive the literal seed of Jacob full possession of the city; the gates\nbeing theirs by the titles on them. This would make a division wall there,\nand God would be a respecter of persons. The gentiles could have no claim\nthere; thus their joint heirship with Christ would fail and so would this\nRevelation; for John was directed to \u201cshow (us) things which would shortly\ncome to pass.\u201d\u2014i: 1; and to \u201cwrite the things which thou _hast seen_, and\nthe things which are, and the things which _shall be hereafter_\u201d in the\nchurches, in the future.\u2014xxii: 16. So we see this vision was all of the\npresent and future; besides the tribes of _literal_ Israel had before this\nbeen rejected and were to \u201cbe trodden down until the times of the gentiles\nwere fulfilled.\u201d\n\nTo make the 14th chapter more plain, in respect to the 144,000, we will\ntry to give an exposition of the 7th. \u201cAnd after these things, I saw four\nAngels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds\nof the earth, that the wind should not blow on the _earth_, nor on the\n_sea_, nor on any _tree_. And I saw another angel ascending from the east\nhaving the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the\nfour angels to whom it was given to hurt the _earth_, and the _sea_;\nsaying hurt not the _earth_, neither the _sea_, nor the _trees_ till we\nhave sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.\u201d\u20141-3. I believe\nthe general view of these four angels being the four leading governments\n[see 9th chapter 14, 15 verses,] is correct with the exceptions of Prussia\nor Rome, because neither of those nations have any maritime force on the\nsea. Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States of North\nAmerica, possess this power over all seas, and the most part of\nChristendom. Our not being a party in the great christian alliance at the\ndownfall of Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1815, neither in 1840, at the fall of\nthe Ottoman Empire, will not, I think, effect this point; but being one of\nthese four messengers, will make it clear, at least so far as relates to\nthe flying messengers and their work, and our power on the sea. Who does\nthis sealing angel ascending from the east represent? Answer\u2014I think some\nof the very same flying messengers brought to view in xiv: 6, 7, and x and\nxviii chapters. If messengers in the form, and fashion of men,\nsymbolically represented as flying through the midst of heaven, preaching\nthe gospel to men, and \u201cbeing clothed with clouds,\u201d rainbows and pillars\nof fire, lighting up the earth with their glory; standing upon the sea,\nand land, crying as when a lion roareth, that time should be no longer;\nare called angels, I see not, nor know of any other exposition of this\nsecond verse. If it is contended that an invisible angel is here\ndescribed, then, according to the 9th chapter, 4th verse, it was done in\nlike manner to individuals in the thirteenth century.\n\nASCENDING from the east, or sun\u2019s rising. I think this does not mean _rise\nup_ out of, &c., as in chapter 13th, or _ascending_ in a similar manner,\nas in chapter xvii: 8, but rather the following, for instance: these\nnorthern and middle States, and the Canadas, are now and have been the\nlocation of almost all the flying messengers, and the burden of their\nmessages, as represented in the 14th chapter. William Miller began to\nproclaim the message from the west, (Low Hampton.) And now to reverse it,\nthe sealing messenger is seen ascending from the eastern, the Atlantic\nStates, bounded by the broad ocean, of nearly three thousand miles, which,\nwhen looking to the east, as John did at sun rising, would give the\nappearance of the sun\u2019s rising out of the water but a few miles off. Owing\nto the round surface of our globe, every 15\u00b0, or nine hundred miles that\nwe sail from hence to the east, the sun appears _ascending_ from his ocean\nbed one hour earlier in the morning. This is familiar to the mariner; as\nalso when they discover another ship, they cry, \u201csail ho!\u201d Why? Because\nthe top of her sails are only seen, but as they approach each other,\n_ascending_ up, as it were, out of the ocean bed, the lower sails, and\nthen the hull, and soon after the men are distinctly seen upon her decks.\nIf we look farther east for this sealing angel or messenger, even to Great\nBritain, or still onward to the northern coast of China, we shall find\nnone that have been so much engaged in the work of God as those above\ndescribed. But if it is still insisted upon, that this sealing angel is\ninvisible, then we shall fail to know when we are sealed. But I think that\nit is a work to be done here, and the saints will understand when they are\nsealed or marked as readily as they did when they were rejoicing because\nthey had got the victory over the beast and his image, on the sea of glass\n(or more sure word of prophecy.) Rev. xv: 2. This was their sectarian\nprofession that bound them in Babylon; and now their second advent\nprofession, as in Rev. xiv: 12, if adhered to, will bind them to Jesus and\nseal, or mark, them for the city; see xxii: 14. Ezekiel had a\nprefiguration of this, in his vision of the man clothed in linen with a\nwriter\u2019s inkhorn by his side, passing through the city, marking God\ngroaning, sorrowing children, (ix: 2, 4, 11,) preparatory to the awful\nslaughter that was immediately to follow; with the strict charge not to\ntouch them that had the mark (or seal) in their foreheads;\u2014just as it will\nbe in the last days, when the 144,000, all of the _living_ children, are\nsealed with the seal of the _living_ God in their foreheads, having been\nmarked or sealed in a similar manner, and by the remnant of the messengers\nthat four years ago were writing, lecturing and exhorting the people of\nGod to get clear of the mark of the beast by coming out of Babylon,\nbecause she had fallen; developing their true profession, or christian\ncharacter, even then, by the help of the marking iron, (the steel pen and\nstamping type,) with the ink from the writer\u2019s _ink horn_; with this\ndifference, that this simultaneous sealing of the 144,000 will show such a\nclear development of christian character in their lives and shining\nforeheads (or faces,) that it will be clearly understood that Jesus has\nredeemed them from _all_ iniquity, by purifying \u201cunto himself a _peculiar\npeople_, ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS.\u201d [These good works, methinks, will be\nsomething more than simply saying we believe the Lord is coming.] Yes,\nsays Malachi, when by his prophetic spirit, he saw Jesus \u201cmaking up his\njewels,\u201d at this point of time, \u201c_then_ shall ye return and discern\nbetween the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him\nthat serveth him not.\u201d \u201cIn the latter (or last) days ye shall consider it\nperfectly.\u201d\u2014Jer. Then \u201che that is unjust, let him be so, and he that is\nrighteous, let him be so still, and behold I come quickly, &c.\u201d\u2014Rev. xxii:\n11, 12.\n\nThis sealing process, then, I understand to be going on with the little\nflock, progressing in accordance with the last eight years\u2019 peculiar labor\nin their experience, and will be completed and approbated by God in the\nagonizing time of Daniel\u2019s and Jacob\u2019s trouble, and proclaimed to the\nworld by God\u2019s roaring out of Zion, and uttering his voice from Jerusalem;\nthen he will be the hope of his people; (see Joel iii.) then their\natonement will be finished, the Sanctuary cleansed,\u201416th and 17th verses;\n\u201cZion\u2019s captivity turned;\u201d \u201ctheir mouths filled with laughter;\u201d \u201cthe\njewels made up,\u201d and the wise will understand the time of their coming\ndeliverer.(3)\n\n_The four Angels._\u2014How does the sealing angel, or messenger, ascending\nfrom the east, cry with a loud voice to these four angels or governments\nof messengers, to \u201churt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,\u201d\n&c. In the first place, I understand that symbolic prophecies have literal\nstatements interspersed, which serve as a key for the rest: i. e. they\nhave a mixed character; for instance, earth and sea here, literal;\n_trees_, symbolical; meaning those that are _marked_, or _sealed_; the\nprofessed people of God\u2014followers of Jesus. See the clear proof under the\nsounding of the fifth trumpet by the Turks, in ch. ix: 4th verse: \u201cthey\nwere not to hurt any tree, but only those MEN which have _not_ the _seal_\nof God _in their foreheads_.\u201d This proves the trees to symbolize the\nfollowers of God; see also Hosea xiv: 8. Again, it is said that these four\nmessengers were to \u201chold the wind from blowing on the _earth_, _sea_, or\nany _tree_.\u201d By the _wind_, I understand as Paul teaches the Eph. iv: 14,\n\u201cevery wind of doctrine and cunning craftiness, and slight of men to\ndeceive, and lead nations into carnage, war and bloodshed;\u201d see also ii:\n2, \u201cbeing led by the Prince of the power of the _air_, working in men\ndisobedience, according to the course of this world.\u201d After the last great\nbattle of nations at Waterloo, in 1815, then these blood-thirsty,\nconquering crowned heads, formed themselves into what they called a\nchristian alliance, showing that there was now peace with all the world;\nsince which time they and our own government have been petitioned or\nprayed to by those who professed to be the followers of the Prince of\nPeace, to abolish the wicked practice with themselves, and thereby\nrestrain all other nations. Now let us learn the difference between the\ntrees, (professors or followers of the Prince of Peace,) and _servants of\nGod_ which are now to be sealed, viz. the 144,000. Thousands on thousands\nof these professors or trees since this work began, have died, and\nprobably one hundred times that number have turned traitors, by deserting\ntheir leader and commander, while the great mass of advent believers,\nwhich stamped this truth upon them, (the nominal church) in Oct. 1844,\nhave since that time, also turned into the enemy\u2019s ranks, leaving the\nremnant to finish up the work. The great majority of these professors were\nonce under the right banner, but the winnowing fan of their great leader\nhas left them with the chaff, so that the voice of the remaining\nmessengers, some of whom were sending these petitions to the four\ngovernments, and their prayers to God to restrain these wicked practices,\nhave become so feeble and disregarded by their former associates, that the\nDevil, seeing his time is short, is now hard at work marshalling his\nunited forces throughout the world, for a mighty victory; and these four\nmessengers are his principle dependence to \u201cgather the whole world to the\nbattle of that great day of God Almighty,\u201d but it will not become general\nuntil the 144,000 saints are sealed.\n\nHere, then, I understand, that the professed followers of the Prince of\nPeace, (symbolized as trees,) have been crying with a loud voice by their\npetitions, which is the symbol for prayer, see xiv: 15, 18, and Matt.\nxxvii: 46, praying these four messengers that have power on all lands, and\n_all_ seas, not to make any more war, either on the land or on the sea,\nnor with the professed people of the Prince of Peace, by disregarding\ntheir petitions. I know not in what other way these four nations could be\nprayed to as represented in the second verse. Now the 144,000 are sealed.\nThen John brings us to the resurrection. The 9th verse says, _after this_,\n(mark this point,) I beheld, and lo, a great multitude which no man could\nnumber of all nations and kindreds, and people and tongues stood before\nthe throne, clothed in white, with palms in their hands, &c. These I\nunderstand are _all_ the sleeping saints from Abel down to the very last\none that falls asleep here. Their having palms in their hands, and robed\nin white, looks to me like the perfect uniformity there will be with\n_them_, and the 144,000 that have never died, that I believe will be\nredeemed right from, or at, the time for the feast of Tabernacles, and\nform a perfect phalanx, rending the air with their shouts while they are\nmounting up with wings as eagles to meet their glorified king and Lord;\nsee xix: 14; Lev. xxiii: 39-44. Here, they will serve God day and night in\nhis temple.\u201415th verse. Therefore all the work that is pointed out here in\nRevelations for the messengers, (called angels,) to perform, will all be\naccomplished here before Christ comes. Now we will turn again to the\n\nFOURTEENTH CHAPTER OF REV., FIRST TO FOURTEENTH VERSE.\n\n\u201cAnd I looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him an\nhundred forty and four thousand; having his Father\u2019s name written in their\nforeheads.\u2014And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters.\u201d\nPlease turn back now to the beginning of the subject 19th page, you will\nsee it is the Father\u2019s name written in their foreheads\u2014i. e., they are now\nsealed\u2014got through with their patient waiting time, and are marked with\nthe name of God; see iii: 10-12. In the 2d verse is the voice; this I\nunderstand is God speaking after the saints are sealed, or Christ and the\nsaints; see i: 15, and xix: 6, as presented on the 96th page.\n\n\u201cAnd they sung as it were a new song before the throne\u2014no man could sing\nthat song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed\nfrom the earth.\u201d [Margin says, _bought_.] Now mark! these were bought from\nthe earth, and they sung a song that no man could learn. This must have\nbeen one which they had learned in their united experience, something like\nthe song of Moses on the banks of deliverance from the Egyptians. No other\npeople could have sung the song because it was the song of their\ndeliverance, for as I have stated these first five verses show this\n144,000 in their immortal state, \u201credeemed from the earth,\u201d (not out of\nit.) \u201cThese are they which were not defiled with women.\u201d \u201cThe woman which\nthou sawest is the great city which reigneth over the kings of the\nearth.\u201d\u2014xvii: 18, called Babylon, (the nominal churches). These, then,\nwere the same ones that had come out of the churches; see 8-11 verses, and\nxv: 2 verse. If the other view is insisted upon, then _all_ of this\n144,000 must be men and the women would have no part in that number\u2014no\nmatter where they are said to come from\u2014\u201c_for they are virgins_.\u201d Being\nclear of the harlot mother and her children; and of those in the parable\nof the ten virgins that went into the marriage of the Bridegroom makes\nthem emphatically so. \u201c_These are they which follow the lamb whithersoever\nhe goeth._\u201d The above shows that they did follow him, and John shows that\nthey do now in their glorified state; see xix chapter, 14th verse.\n\u201c_These_ WERE _redeemed from among men being the first fruits unto God and\nto the lamb_.\u201d\u20144th verse. Redeemed or bought from among men (not from\namong the dead) nor from out of the earth, but from \u201camong men and from\nthe earth.\u201d The first fruits cannot be until the harvest, and that cannot\nbe until Jesus comes to reap it with his sharp sickle, see 14th and 15th\nverses; remember too, that the description John is here giving, is the\n144,000 with Jesus, after he has reaped the harvest of the earth.\n\nSee how perfectly it harmonizes with the type of Jesus being the first\nfruits, to God, or handful of the _first_ harvest of barley to represent\nhis resurrection; since which time he has been laboring with his Father\nfor this very harvest. To have the figure harmonize the fruit must come at\nthe harvest time, not the seed time. This is the first fruits unto God and\nto the Lamb conjointly. The dead saints are no where that I know of\nrepresented as fruits, before the resurrection. This then is the\nharmonious view; but we will look at the view which the Bible Advocate and\nothers, have shown, that the 144,000 shown here, were the saints that came\nout of their graves after the resurrection.\u2014Matt. xxvii: 52, 53; and we\nare told that \u201cEph. iv: 8, is to the point.\u201d \u201cWhen he ascended upon high\nhe led captivity captive\u201d\u2014[Margin says, a _multitude of captives_,] but\nthis marginal reading so much relied on for their proof by the mark thus\n(||,) shows it to be the view of the bible translators. Now to get the\nclear view, turn to the 68th Ps. 18th verse, from where Paul quoted. Here\nthe marginal reading marked thus [Heb.] shows it to be the original, the\ninspired word. Now let us read\u2014\u201cThou hast led captivity captive\u2014thou hast\nreceived gifts in _the man_, (in Jesus) yea, for the rebellious also.\u201d\nThis changes the meaning, and would make this multitude of captives\nrebellious saints. Surely Jesus took no such present as this to his\nFather; therefore there will be no more necessity for straining the plain\ntext in Cor. xv: 20, 23. This text is clear, emphatic, and repeated; which\ndistinctly teaches Christ the first fruits of them that slept;\n_afterwards_ they that are Christ\u2019s at his coming, when both the dead and\nliving will be the first fruits to God and the lamb conjointly. To\nharmonize the type, the saints at Christ\u2019s second coming are the next or\nsecond fruits to God at the second or last harvest in the 7th month, the\nrevolution, or ingathering of the year, the feast of Tabernacles. Another\nwriter J. Porter, states, that Jesus took these saints that arose at\nJerusalem right up to his Father, and then received his power, and\nreturned the same day; and he might also have added, travelled with the\ntwo to Emmaus, seven and a half miles; and as others will have it, was\nback time enough to keep the whole day with his disciples, for the first\nSabbath after his resurrection. If we really want the truth, God will give\nit to us, but not by rejecting other truths.\n\nNow let us see whether the description of character given in these five\nverses of the 144,000, will apply to the saints that arose in Jerusalem at\nthe resurrection. In the first place, these were never numbered.\nSecond\u2014The record is entirely silent about their being united in their\ntrials and experience, to sing a peculiar song of their own. Third\u2014These\nwere not redeemed from among men, on the earth, but out from among the\ndead. Fourth,\u2014They could not be the first fruit before the harvest, for\nPaul says, \u201cChrist the first fruits, _afterwards_ they that are Christ\u2019s\nat his coming,\u201d (second coming,) not them that were his at his going away\nat his first advent,\u2014first harvest. That would be a clear perversion of\nthe text; we must wait for the second harvest for the next fruit, 7th\nmonth. Fifth\u2014To say that they were virgins, and not defiled with women, is\nonly admitting what we know nothing about. Sixth\u2014John saw the messenger\nthat sealed, and says the number was 144,000; all this, was sixty years\nafter what transpired at Jerusalem. This is out of the limits of his\nvision; and what will, and does forever, destroy this erroneous view, is,\nthat the four winds are to be holden by the four Angel nations, until the\nwhole number were sealed, and they have not let go yet; unless it can be\nproved that it was done 1800 years ago. That old Jerusalem was called a\nholy place; see Exo ix: 8; Acts vi: 13; also the testimony of Jesus, Matt.\nxxiv: 15. Lastly\u2014If it is objected that these are the living saints to be\nredeemed at the second advent, then we fail to find them described in this\nvision, which would destroy the chain of wonders which he saw respecting\nthe living and the dead, with the varied and changing scenes through which\nthey were continually passing. Now, how simple, plain, and harmonious\nthese verses appear when we apply them down at the end of all things,\nwhere they were seen in this vision, and where they most certainly belong.\nThe 5th verse shows them without fault before the throne, clearly in their\nredeemed and immortal state. Here then is the true description of their\ncharacters. In the next seven verses from 6 to 13, John describes\n\nTHEIR LABORS IN THE MESSAGES.\n\n\u201cAnd I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the\neverlasting gospel to preach, unto them that dwell on the earth, and to\nevery nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a _loud\nvoice_, fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is\ncome.\u201d\n\nThis is so plain that all who have been engaged and laboring in the Second\nAdvent Doctrine must admit it to represent William Miller, and those of\nhis faith, as the flying messengers preaching the advent of Jesus to their\nfellow men, since 1840. Invisible angels never yet preached the gospel to\nmen; but as it has been here\u2014man preaching to man,\u2014then these angels\nrepresent our own neighbors, preaching, lecturing, and exhorting us with\nloud voices to listen to their message, for the judgment was at hand.\n\nHe says he \u201csaw another angel.\u201d Where did he see the first one, then?\nAnswer\u2014In his description of the trumpets, viii: 13, thus he carries our\nminds back to the simple narration of the first description of these\nmessengers and receivers out of which were sealed 144,000, in 7th chapter.\nThis message has gone to every nation, kindred, tongue and people.\n\n\u201cAnd there followed another angel saying Babylon is fallen, is fallen,\u201d\n&c., 8th verse. This fallen city, we say, was the nominal churches,\nembracing all of the professed followers of the prince of peace; and they\nhave fallen, because they rejected this first message at the hour of God\u2019s\njudgment, and shut it out of their worshipping assemblies, and out of\ntheir hearts\u2014\u201cthey _made light of it_.\u201d\n\nAnd the third angel followed, saying with a loud voice, \u201cIf any man\nworship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or\nin his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which\nis poured out without mixture,\u201d &c.\u20149th and 10th verses.\n\nThese two last described angels, which follow the first, are only a part\nof the flying messengers described in the 6th and 7th verses\u2014for many of\nthe first class opposed the second and third messengers, and some\nabsolutely denounced them for saying Babylon, or the nominal churches had\nfallen, and for calling God\u2019s people to _come out_ of them and leave them\nforever. In chapter xviii, 4th verse, John heard the same voice from the\nsame people, called the third angel, telling them to come out from\nBabylon. In the xiv. chapter, he more particularly describes the condition\nof all those who _retain_ or _receive_ again the mark of the beast, or in\nany way connect themselves with these churches,\u2014Jer. iii: 3; the plain\nEnglish of which is, get clear of this mark, or profession, and _keep\nclear_; come out and stay out of this \u201chabitation of Devils.\u201d For a\nfurther explanation of these texts, and definition of the locations of the\nheavens, &c., see _Way Marks_.\n\nAny advent believer who undertakes to dispute this, and the two preceding\nangels\u2019 messages, with their clear fulfillment in advent history from 1840\nto the fall of 1844, is, in my opinion, but a few steps removed from the\ngross darkness that surrounds the habitations of Babylon. I will venture\nagain to reiterate the assertion, that since the days of the Apostles,\nGod\u2019s people have never witnessed such a simultaneous and righteous\nmovement, as they did during these three messages. I feel perfectly safe\nin saying that I fear no contradiction here, nor condemnation hereafter,\nfor moving in perfect harmony, as we have done, during these three\nmessages. Many are writing and preaching that these are, and will continue\nto be given, while the world stands. This mistake is as fatal as the\nrejection of the first, because in so doing they will not see any work\nwhich God has marked out for them, in this last work for man to fulfill\nand finish the history of this prophecy. We say, then, that these messages\nclosed with the world, when they were condemned by them, at the end of a\ncry at midnight, in Oct. 1844. God then had other and more important work\nfor his church to perform among themselves than they ever had before, and\nit is clearly marked out in the verses which follow these messages, and\nwhoever fails here, fails to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. Be\nassured, John has not broken the thread of this most interesting narrative\nhere and left us in confusion, to call the testimony of _Jesus his\ncommandments_; and our resting from this most laborious work in these\nmessages, _the resurrection_. If our experience, for more than three years\npast, has not taught us that God is fulfilling his word, by having every\nthing in its place; one thing following another, then we have failed to\nprofit by it. Let me entreat you, my brethren, to critically examine the\nnext three verses: viz. \u201cHere is the patience of the saints, here are they\nthat keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.\u201d\u201412th verse.\nWhat is the faith of Jesus? Answer,\u2014Chapter 12th, 17th verse says it is\nhis \u201ctestimony;\u201d chapter 19th, 10th verse, says his \u201ctestimony is the\nspirit of prophecy.\u201d \u201cTeach all nations to observe all things whatsoever I\nhave commanded you.\u201d\u2014Matt. xxviii: 20. Now observe, the faith, or\ntestimony of Jesus, embraces all his teachings. Now mark, this is what our\nopponents call the New Testament _commandments_, or _grace_, which they\nsay embraces all the commandments that we are bound to believe or keep!\n\nThe text says that these people that are in their patience, their _trying\ntime_, keep the commandments of God, besides the testimony of Jesus. Here\nthen, we are absolutely directed, not only to the old testament but to the\ndecalogue\u2014Exo. xx: 1-17, and even before there was any decalogue in the\nform of a precept; see Exo. xvi: 27-30. This one text, in itself,\npositively overthrows all of their unscriptural teaching about their New\nTestament commandments, and clearly demonstrates the perpetuity of God\u2019s\nholy Sabbath, because the commandments of God are one thing, and the\ntestimony of Jesus is another. These are the people, then, and the only\nones too, who abide by the whole word of God, in the Old and New New\nTestament teaching, and they that deny the teachings of this text, deny\nthe word of God, and trample down His Holy Sabbath.\n\nIn the three preceding verses, God\u2019s people are called away, and required,\nunder penalty of their salvation, to continue disconnected from Babylon,\nthe churches to which the great mass before this belonged. Now the very\nnext thing after these messages, John declares that they are keeping the\ncommandments of God; that is, they are keeping the seventh-day Sabbath.\nWhere is the proof? says the objector. Here it is\u2014when this same people\nwere making their sacrifice, in 1843 and \u201944, expecting the Lord to come,\nthey were walking out in all the commandments of God, as far as they were\ntaught or knew them at that time; and we all fully believed then, and do\nnow, that _all_ the honest ones were in a saved state; and if called away\nthen, as was brother Fitch and others, the same hope would follow them;\nbut we know that they could not be honest, nor be saved, if they were\nknowingly living in violation of any of God\u2019s commandments; and yet we all\npositively know _now_, that with a very few exceptions, we were all living\nin open violation of the 4th commandment, which we were taught to do,\n(though not always designedly,) in the churches to which they belonged,\nand where they are still continued to be taught; and our staying with\nthem, _we now see_, would not have altered, for they _fell_ for rejecting\nthe message that came before this, and therefore the subject of this 12th\nverse was not presented to them. Our keeping the first day of the week for\nthe fourth commandment, never was, nor ever will be, fulfilling it, any\nmore than keeping Friday for the Sabbath. John, who kept the right\nSabbath, and was now describing our real labors and characters, could not\nhave said that we kept the commandments, unless we were keeping the\nseventh-day Sabbath, according to God\u2019s direction and _his_ practice.\nThis, then, being the only commandment that ever had been objected to,\nfrom the days of the Apostles, by those who pretended to keep them, makes\nit clear that John could not have had any reference to either of the\nothers, but the Sabbath only. Here then, for the first time, they were\n_right_ in the keeping of God\u2019s commandments; and the history of God\u2019s\nconfiding children since the messages of 1844, are fully demonstrating\nthis point, which clearly proves this exposition to be unobjectionable and\n_perfect_. Another point is, that they could not keep the seventh-day\nSabbath, until they were separated and undefiled by the woman, (see 4th\nverse,) hence the declaration that they were doing so after the message of\nthe third angel had separated them from Babylon. John saw the dragon\nmaking war with this remnant, (xii: 17,) and the unclean spirits coming\nout of the mouth of the dragon (or devil,) have been, and are now, doing\nthis work. The very object in sending forth this work, has been to expose\nthese deceivers, who for the last five months more especially, have been\nbearing down upon this remnant in a paper war, with all the power they\ncould wield. We do not, by any means, expect this is all of it, because we\nknow that the devil will never yield, nor discharge the volunteer company\nwhich he is so judiciously marshalling out of the second advent ranks,\nuntil every device to destroy the remnant is resorted to, and they are\nseen emerging from the smoke and carnage of this unholy warfare, ascending\nto the gates of the holy city, under the waving banner of the commandments\nof God.\u2014Rev. xx: 11-14.\n\nThe judgment hour cry, in 6th and 7th verses, was the only one that was\ndesigned to go to all the nations of the earth; and that of itself was\nsufficient to condemn a world of sinners and false professors that\nrejected it. Other tests were required, especially in this land, more than\nEngland and other lands, because the light of the church was, and still\nis, in these middle and northern states. Here also, is where this doctrine\nemanated from; hence the other messages to test and bring out the true.\nThen those who reject the messages are the false ones; but the unlettered\nslave and those who have been, as it were, enshrouded in moral darkness,\nand have been honestly following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth, as far\nas they knew, have not rejected this light as have the advent believers in\nthis land; therefore they are not under the same condemnation.\n\n\u201cAnd I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write: Blessed are the\ndead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that\nthey may rest from their _labors_ and their works do follow them,\u201d 15th\nverse.\n\nI understand this verse as still referring to the same messengers and\ntheir adherents, who had been laboring almost incessantly to convince\ntheir friends of the reality of the messages, in an especial manner,\nduring a cry at midnight, where they closed with the world. If it was not\ntrue of them then as a body, then there is no history since John had this\nvision, to show any thing like it; and it looks like making scripture, to\nattempt its application in the future, disconnected with the labor in the\npreceding verses. The inference is natural, and it is just like God\u2019s\norder every where, that these his honest believers, should rest from their\nlabors with the world, to get their own minds cloudy and calmly fixed on\nthe great event before them. Isaiah saw it; see xxvi: 20, 21, and xxv: 19.\nHow can God\u2019s children be shut away in their chambers from the world, and\nthen say at his coming we have _waited_ for him, if they were not resting\nfrom their labors with the world, doing what he says, in his 40th chapter\n1st verse. It is also in perfect harmony with the type.\n\nDo stop here a little while, and turn to Lev. xxii: 27-32, and show, if\nyou can, where the harmony, anti-type, or clear fulfillment of these\nverses are, if they are not found in Revelations xiv: 12th and 13th\nverses.\n\n_First_\u2014then, the type in Leviticus: Here the primitive established church\nannually, on the tenth day of the seventh month, had a twenty-four hour\nday of atonement, to cleanse them from their sins. During these\ntwenty-four hours they were positively required by the statute or law to\nenter into a _Sabbath_ of _rest_ and _day_ of _affliction_, or _trial_,\nand rest from all their _labor_, \u201cfrom even to even,\u201d under penalty of\nbeing forever cut off from his people.\u201429th and 30th verses. There is one\nmore peculiar trait in this type which demands our particular attention;\nthat is, in every other Sabbath or holy convocation _they_ were positively\nrequired to abstain from all _servile work_\u2014but in the tenth day it is not\nspecified; see also Num. xxix: 7. This shows the perfect order of God that\nwhen the church in the last days should enter upon the anti-type, as in\nRev. xiv: 12, 13, that they would not be required to cease from _servile\nwork_, (if necessary), because the atonement for them would require more\nthan twenty-four hours, seeing that them were 144,000 from every nation,\nkindred, tongue, and people; whereas those represented by the type could\nall be assembled in a few hours. This is also in harmony with the fourth\ncommandment for _laboring_ the other six days for food and raiment, as\nlong as we keep the Sabbath even to the gates of the city.\u201422: 14.\n\n_Second_\u2014the anti-type\u2014Rev. xiv: 12, 13. After passing through the\nmessages above described they are now out of the Sardis, (or nominal,)\ninto the Philadelphia state of the church, and commenced their day of\natonement since Oct. 1844, they also enter into the same kind of rest by\nkeeping for the first time the right Sabbath of the Lord our God in their\n_patient waiting_, or _trying time_; resting from their _labors_, in these\nmessages, from the world: having now done with them; waiting for their\ngreat high priest to finish the cleansing of the sanctuary, which blots\nout their sins, and purifies them to enter into the holy city. The reason\nof the anti-type in the atonement, being longer than the type (twenty-four\nhours) is obvious, because God will give his people sufficient time to\naccept or refuse the light presented to them after their labors with the\nworld, to perfectly fulfill the type, by voluntarily entering into this\nSabbath and resting from their _labors_.\n\nWill this be objected to because it reads \u201cBlessed are the dead that die\nin the Lord from henceforth;\u201d and must mean such as die a natural death.\nWell, Paul says \u201cprove all things,\u201d &c. Suppose then we say this verse was\nto have its fulfillment from A.D. 96, when John wrote it, henceforth from\nthat time. Then the strong and clear inference would be, that Stephen and\nJames, and all the rest of the disciples who had died before, would not be\nblessed\u2014because the blessing here given, is from the time when given,\nhenceforward. If we move the beginning of this time to Luther\u2019s day, as\nsome will have it, then we cut off John and all the saints up to that\ntime; and if we move it to Oct. 1844, then we cut off every saint that has\ndied in the Lord before.\n\nBut to get clear of all this, we are told that this 13th verse evidently\nrepresents the saints at the resurrection. (See Bible Advocate, Sept. 23,\n1847.) He refers, (as I have,) to the advent message in 6th and 7th\nverses, but avoids the second and third angels\u2019 messages, (8-11 verses) or\nleaves them and the 12th verse also, to be fulfilled in connection with\nthe 13th verse, at the resurrection. Then to make his view clear to our\nunderstanding, we must read it something like this: Blessed are the dead\nwhich die in the Lord, from the time the advent message began, (say 1840,)\nuntil Babylon falls, and the statement is being made about what is\nrecorded in the 12th verse \u201cwhere is the patience of the saints,\u201d &c.\nWell, say then, that one hundred saints, or more, have actually departed\nthis life, since that time commenced, and they will be blessed at the\nresurrection. The question then arises\u2014If this must actually be fulfilled\nfor these few, where is the blessing for John, who had this vision, and\nall the saints who have actually died since 1840? Is God partial? Shall we\nfind this distinction in the 7th chapter, 9, 10, 15 and 17th verses, where\nthe great multitude of all the departed saints are represented before the\nthrone of God with white robes, and palms in their hands? No. Shall we\nfind it in the 20th chapter? where he says, \u201cBlessed and holy is he that\nhath part in the first resurrection;\u201d where not only the departed saints,\nbut the 144,000 living ones, are brought to view? No\u2014nothing of the kind.\nThis Revelation was concerning \u201c_things present_, (A.D. 96,) and things to\ncome.\u201d We see, then, if this 13th verse, as we are told, does represent\nthe departed saints any where, or time, since A.D. 96, and will be\nfulfilled at the resurrection, it is yet incomprehensible. Is it not clear\nthat it only has reference to all the righteous saints in these messages\nfrom Oct. 1844? How can it mean the literal dead? Is it not clear that the\ndead know not any thing; therefore the blessing would not effect them as\nthis text teaches any more than to bless any other inanimate substance.\nThe Blessing belongs always to the living. Just look at Jesus\u2019 sermon on\nthe mount.\u2014Matt. v: 3-11\u2014\u201cBlessed are ye when men shall revile you, and\npersecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for\nmy sake\u201d &c. &c. This is now being fulfilled to the letter; see also Rev.\ni: 3; xvi: 15; xix: 9; xxii: 7; v: 12, 13; Luke xxiv: 50, 51, \u201cBlessed are\nthey that hear the word of God and keep it.\u201d\u2014_Jesus._ \u201cBlessed are they\nthat _do_ his commandments,\u201d they shall be saved,\u2014xxii: 14. Also, Isaiah\nlvi: 2, that keep the Sabbath; these two last are to the point, just what\nthey are doing in our text, 12th and 13th verses of Rev. xiv. John is here\ncertainly speaking of a _class_, or _company_, of living believers, and\nnot the literal dead. _Rest_ is opposite to _labor_. He shows that the\nseraphim and cherubim, (invisible angels,) _rest_ not day, nor night, but\nare continually \u201csaying Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty.\u201d\u2014also v: 11,\n12. The sleeping saints at the resurrection have no rest, they serve God\n_day_ and _night_ in his temple\u2014vii: 15. Then the _rest_ spoken of here in\nthe 13th verse is of the living; resting from their labors with the world.\nOnce more, \u201cBlessed are the dead that die in the Lord.\u201d Paul said the\ncommandment so affected him that he _died_\u2014Rom. vii: 9. He means that he\ndied to sin. Again, he says, \u201cI _die daily_,\u201d\u20141st Cor. xv: 31; \u201cIn\n_deaths_ oft\u201d\u20142d Cor. xi: 23; \u201cIf ye be _dead_ with Christ,\u201d &c.\u2014\u201cFor ye\nare _dead_ and your life is hid with Christ in God\u201d &c.\u2014Col. ii: 20; iii:\n3, 4; also, see Rom. vi: 8, 11, \u201c_Dead_ indeed unto sin, but alive unto\nGod through Jesus Christ our Lord.\u201d In all these, and much more, he uses\nthese terms for himself and others that were actually alive in the church.\nBut the general term used for such as were literally _dead_, by Jesus and\nthe apostles, are asleep; _they sleep_; \u201cOur friend Lazarus _sleepeth_.\u201d\nHe spake of his death; the people did not understand; he explained by\nsaying \u201c_plainly_ he is _dead_.\u201d\u2014John xi: 11-14. Paul says, \u201cthey also\nwhich are fallen _asleep_ in Christ\u201d\u20141st Cor. xv: 18; \u201cSome are fallen\n_asleep_.\u201d\u20146th verse: \u201cWe shall not all _sleep_, but we shall be\nchanged.\u201d\u201451st verse: see also 1st Thes. iv: 15, \u201cThem also which _sleep_\nin Jesus\u201d &c.; \u201cSince the Fathers fell _asleep_\u201d\u20142d Pet. iii: 4.\n\n_History._\u2014We prove these, then, to be a part of the same class of the\nmessengers and their adherents that came out of the churches. Thousands of\nliving testimonies could be adduced to prove the multitudes who died in\nthe camp meetings and conferences, about the time that the messengers were\nclosing up their messages. Why, many were burdened with the cry, die to\nsin, and the world; and live unto God. And thousands passed through this\ndeath struggle. Yes, they were blessed by _dying in the Lord_. Those who\ndeny and make light of this part of our experience, were but little\nacquainted with the work of God in the fall of 1844, and need to be\ninstructed again. But those that died to sin, and the world then; cannot\nbe in a saved state now, if returned to the world. To be safe, follow\nPaul\u2019s example, \u201c_die daily_.\u201d\n\nThen, without destroying one single link of this harmonious chain of\nevents, these saints will be in the right place to fulfill the next\nmessage in the 15th verse, \u201ccrying with a loud voice,\u201d (different from the\npreceding ones,) this I understand will be a combination of labor among\nthe resting ones, to be united in the incessant prayer, or crying to God\nday and night in the time of Jacob and Daniel\u2019s trouble (Jer. xxx: 7; Dan.\nxii: 1,) for deliverance, and for Christ to come on the white cloud, as\nrepresented in 14th verse, with his sharp sickle and reap the harvest for\nall things will appear to be ripe on the earth; see Sam. vii: 8; Jer.\nxxii: 4, 5; Mark xv: 34, 37; Luke xviii: 1, 7. Here, I believe, is where\nthe 144,000 living saints of all nations, are sealed; especially will it\nbe manifest among the tried ones then, that have passed through these\nmessages. Then the four angel governments will cease to restrain war and\nbloodshed; God will speak as in Joel iii: 16, 17: the Sanctuary will be\ncleansed; the sins of God\u2019s people blotted out\u2014in other words, the\natonement finished and their trials ended; their captivity turned. Two\nsuch ones will then put ten thousand to flight. Jesus comes out of the\nmost holy place, changes his garments, puts on his kingly robes and stands\nup to reign over the nations, as in Dan. xii: 1; mounts his cloudy chariot\nwith his sharp sickle to reap the harvest of the earth. Here the 144,000\nare in a state of deliverance, ready for the next and last message in the\n17th and 18th verses. This message looks like one united and incessant\nprevailing prayer, (differing from all the others, because of the\neverlasting union that these messages have at length accomplished with\nthese sealed saints,) ascending to God, while these messengers who have\nnow, as it seems, become reapers similar to those in xix: 14, 15, \u201cand are\nto gather the vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine press of\nthe wrath of God,\u201d (19. v.) \u201cto execute upon _them_ (the wicked) the\njudgment written; this honor have all the saints. Praise ye the Lord.\u201d Now\nreturn to the 7th chapter, 9-15 verses\u2014\u201cAfter this,\u201d (when? after the\nsaints were numbered and sealed,) \u201cI beheld, and lo, a great multitude\nwhich no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people and\ntongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white\nrobes, and palms in their hands. And they cried saying amen, blessing, and\nglory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might be\nunto our God forever and ever, Amen.\u201d The 144,000 will then stand on the\nMount Zion.\n\n                  -------------------------------------\n\n\u201cFear not little flock, it is your Father\u2019s good pleasure to give you the\nkingdom.\u201d\n\nCHRIST NOT REPRESENTED AS AN ANGEL.\n\nChrist is no where represented as an angel, in Rev. unless it can be\nproved that he is so, in the 8th ch. 3-5 vs. He tells us that the 7 stars\nin his right hand are the angels, or messengers; see i: 20. He is called\n\u201cone _like_ unto the _son_ of _man_.\u201d Read his description i: 13-18; xiv:\n14; the same in Dan. vii: 13; x: 5, 6; xii: 6, 7. He is also called the\nLamb 26 times; see v: 6, 8, 12, 13 vs.; vi: 1, 16; vii: 9, 10, 14, 17;\nxii: 11; xiii: 8, 11; xiv: 1-4; xv: 3; xvii: 14; xix: 7, 9; xxi: 9, 14,\n22, 23, 27; xxii: 1, 3. This Lamb is the Lord of Lords, and king of kings;\nand they that are _with him_ are _called_ and _chosen_, and faithful; see\nxvii: 14; xix: 16. He is called the _word_ of God, and \u201cthe armies\u201d the\n\u201cchosen and faithful\u201d ones follow him; see xix: 13, 14. He is called the\n_first_ and the _last_ i: 8, 17; ii: 8; xxii: 13. And the one which _was_,\nand _is_, and _is to come_, i: 4, 8; iv: 8; xi: 17. He is the _true and\nfaithful witness_ i: 5; iii: 14. Also the root of David, the morning star,\nxxii: 16; ii: 28; also Mich. xii: 7. And faithful witness i: 5; iii: 14;\nxix: 11. Please examine this subject:\n\nTYPE. Now turn to Lev. xxiii: 10, 11; when you reap the harvest (in the\nspring,) then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits, and the Priest\nshall wave it before the Lord\u2014on the morrow after the Sabbath, (as in 3d\nv.). And ye shall count from the day after the Sabbath, (the some 7th day\nSabbath in 3d v.) the day after ye offer the wave sheaf, 7 Sabbaths shall\nbe complete; that is, counting the next day after the 7 Sabbaths, which\nwill make 50 days, 16, 17 vs.; then with the sacrifices they are to offer\ntwo wave leaves, the bread made from the harvested grain; see 17-20. Now\nturn to Exo. xxxiv: 21, 22: here we see God required the people to keep\nthe 7th day Sabbath, i. e. to rest in caring time, and harvest, but they\nwere to observe the first fruits in their place, Deut. xvi: 9, shows\nwhere; begin to count the 50 days from the time thou beginnest to put the\nsickle to the corn. Now send the reapers forth the next morning after the\nSabbath, what day is that? why, it is Sunday in the morning; so we see in\nthe anti-type the morning of the resurrection instead of being a holy day\n(and as the world will have it the Sabbath) it was the day for the\nlaborers to go out into the fields to reap the spring harvest. How could\nthat be a holy day.\n\nHYMN.\u2014Tune\u2014_Zion._\n\nBy H. S. GURNEY.\n\n\n    Lo, an Angel _loud_ proclaiming,\n    With the gospel of good news;\n    To every kindred, tongue and people;\n    Fear the Lord, give glory due;\n        Proclamation,\n    Of the hour of judgment near.\n\n    Lo, another Angel follows,\n    With another solemn cry!\n    Babylon the _great_ is fallen,\n    Peals like thunder through the sky:\n        Let \"Thy People,\"\n    Now forsake her POIS\u2019NOUS CREEDS.\n\n    Yet, a third and solemn message,\n    Now proclaims a _final doom_;\n    All who \u201cworship _Beast_ or _Image_;\u201d\n    Soon shall drink the wrath of God:\n        Without mixture,\n    Mercy, _now_ no longer pleads.\n\n    Here are they, who now are waiting,\n    And have patience to endure;\n    While the DRAGON\u2019S _hosts_ are raging,\n    _Those_ confide in God secure:\n        Faith of Jesus;\n    And COMMANDMENTS, _keep_ them pure.\n\n    Hear a voice from heav\u2019n proclaiming,\n    \u201cWrite\u201d the message, \u201cfirm decree\u201d:\n    Bless\u2019d are they, who die in Jesus,\n    \u201cFrom _henceforth_\u201d forever be:\n        The _Spirit_ sanctions,\n    And the Saints ADORE HIS LAW.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n\n    1 Campbell translates this in three, and Matt. xxviii: 63, within\n      three days.\n\n    2 Small sea birds.\n\n    3 Allow me, once more, to recommend to your careful, candid and\n      prayerful attention, the simple, unadorned, scriptural, published\n      visions of ELLEN G. HARMON, now WHITE. If you do not see the simple\n      outlines of our history past _and at that time_ in the future,\n      marking our pathway, then I fear you will not comprehend what I have\n      written. Reject it not because of her childhood and diseased bodily\n      infirmities, and lack of worldly knowledge. God\u2019s manner has ever\n      been to use the weak things of this world to confound the learned\n      and mighty. I often feel to praise my God for this simple means to\n      strengthen and encourage the little flock, just at the time that\n      their teachers and shepherds were deserting them. It looks like\n      God\u2019s work.","title":"A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God: With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":47463}