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Second Advent Review,: and Sabbath Herald
"HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS; HERE ARE T 1 Y THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS."
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VOL. t. PARIS, ME., JANUARY, 1851. No. 4.
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JOSEPH BATES, S.`Ny. RHODES, J. N. ANDREW'S, and On thardread morn, chile to its centre shook
JAM ES W HITE, Pehlixhing Committee. The steadfast earth, and Israel in dismay
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iv+ 4.16.2.9..141421CMAIrod. • v,..4.,,ra..•••aur,r . Which is the*Sabbath of the Lord 'thy God,
Thou and all thine shalt rest; for in six days
THE SABBATH.
The Lord made heaven and earth and all therein,
Now dawns through heaven and certh the Sabbath day. And rested on the seventh, and hallowed it."
Auspicious season hail! with cheerful song Based on this grand foundation, stands secure
Thy glad return we celebrate below, The Sabbath of the LORD. And who art thou,
While, though in Mier yet symphonious strains, That rashly dream'st to pluck this fabric:down;
Angelic choirs thy welcome chant above. And on its ruins to erect thine own,
Yee, teett art welcome, for thy holy sway Thy fleet, thy sanctified! Shortsighted-man!
Quells the wild tu:nult of the troubled soul, Cutest thou command unnumbered worlds from naughti
And softly whispers peace. The sorrowing heart Or canstthou thunder with a voice like Him?
Grows glad:at thine approach, and spirits frith, Then mayest thou think to Change the law divine.
Fanned by thy hallow'd breath revive and smile. Thy weakness know, and know that God is strong,
From the rapt vision fades the world away, And jealous of his glory; and who dares
And saints in union sweet, draw near to heaven. With impious hand to touch his high renown,
Thou Prince of days expressly made for man! Shall his displeasure prove, and taste his ire.
0 had we.seraph harps, we'd sing thy praise Blest ell-immortal day! A h, it shall stand;
In lumbers worthy the exalted theme. Unmoved amid the strife of Mortal tongues—
We'd rise superior to the angelic throng, Unmoved amid the ruin of the while;
And their impassioned minstrelsy outviel And while Eternity his mighty years
Because this sacred morn for vs doth shine. Shall roll unnumbered o'er the earth made new,
(Poor pilgrims wandering 'ink! earth's gloom profound.) Effulgent shine in glory's noontide ray,
To us by the creating hand Was given By nations who are saved; cbsarved for aye.
This dear memorial of creating love; Parise Ire , per., IMO. H. N. STEvaivV,
This beacon lighted at the burning Throne,
Piercing night's deepest shades, and scattering wide HISTORY OF THE SABBATH.—CONTINUED,
Celestial radiance on the darksome way. THE SINCE THE EEFOR!LATION. -
We will ascribe to God the glory due; With the commencement of the Reformation a new spirit 'of re v
Will honor him who sitteth on the throne ligious inquiry was awakened. Nearly every item of Christian
And will rejoice before him; for his name practice was brought under consideration, and not dismissed un;
Is high exalted far above all gods. it either approved or rejected. Among the subjects for discus.
Honor and might and majesty are his. sion we find the Sabbath early introduced and thoroughly ex
Creation bears his signature divine, amincd. There were three leading views then maintained by
And loud attests the greatness of his power. different classes of the Reformers, which deserve particular
Ere ancient Time his measured course began, notice.
When embryo earth appeared, formless and void, 1. One class of Reformers there was, who, dwelling alone ofi
When silence reigned, and universal night the sufficiency of faith, and the freeness of the Gospel, tremb-
Mantled the bosom of the mighty deep; led at the thought of imposing rules upon men, and seemed to
Then went the mandate forth, th' omnifie word fear the term late. These declared that the law of the Sabbath
Borne on the breath of Deity afar, was abolished ; that Sunday was no Sabbath, only a festival of
Traversed the echoing gloom ;—nor void returned;
the church, which had been appointed, and might be altered at
Nature awoke, responsive to the call;
her pleasure. That we may not be thought in error .here, as
And sprang to life in all her varied forms.
well as to give a fuller understanding of the opinions of that
And in th' approval of the smiling God
time, lire will present the assertions of some of ihese men:
Exulting, her majestic course began.
Six days the Almighty labored with his word.
Bishop Cranntar's Catechism, A. D. 1548, says :—" The
But now his labors ceased Band heralded
Jews were commanded in the Old Testament to keep the Sab-
By the clear anthem of the " morning stars," bath-day, and they observed it every seventh day, called the
Crowned with excessive glory, shone oil high Sabbath, or Saturday ; but we Christian men are not bound to
The first, Sabatic morn. To greet its dawn, such Commandments in Mpscs' law, and therefore we now keep
All heaven joined in univocal song; no more the Sabbath, or Saturday, as the Jews did, but we ob.
Mellifluous voices filled the balmy airy serve the Sunday and some other days, as the magistrates do
Accompanied by harps of sweetest note, judge convenient:"
Hymning the praises of creating love, William Tindal says, in his answer to More, chap. 25
And the Ix ight glories of the day of rest. " We_ be lords over the Sabbath, and may change it into Mon.
Momentous day! its first observer He; day, or any other day, as we see need. Or may make every
The high and Otte, whose fearful name tenth day holy-day, only if we see cause why ; we may make
Gleams as a sieent on its holy brow. two every week, if it were expedient, and one not enough to
'Alone ordained and sanctified by Him, teach the people. Neither was there any cause to change it
And with His blessing blest forevermore. from the Saturday than to put difference between us and the Jew,
and lest we ,should become servants to the day after their su-
When from the sacred mount;
perstition:"
Whose elandy top and trembling base proclaimed
Ballinger, on Rev. i, 10, says :—" Christian churches enter-
The awful grandeur of its Guest sublitne,
In thunder tones went forth the "Royal law,"
tained the Lord's day not upon any commandment from God,
God's will.to man,.made known in ten commands;
but according to their free choice."
t4 TIM REVIEW AND HERALD.
Melancthon says :—" The Lord's day from the Apostles' age, I 3. A third class may be found among the disputants about the
hath been a solemn day : notwiths'anding, we find not the same Sabbath, who endeavored, by strict adherence to the Scriptures,
commanded by any Apostolic law ; bit it is collected from t to escape the difficulties and inconsis'encies into which others
hence that the observation thereof was free, because Epiphani- had been let • They contended for the early institution of the
us and St. Augustine testify that on the fourth and the sixth days Sabbath, for its morality and perpetuity as inferred from its be-
. week church assemblies were held, as well as upon ing placed in the Decalogue, and for the seventh day of the week
of the
the Lord's day,' l as an essential and necessary quart of the commandment. The-
The Augustan Confession, drawn up by Melanclhon, end ap- ophilus Bralourne, in 1628, gays :—" I, The fourth command-
proved by Luther, says We teach that traditions are not to ment of the Decalogue is a precept, simply and entirely
be condemned which have a religious end, namely, moral, containing nothing legally ceremonial, in whole ..or in
traditions concerning holy-days, the Lord's day, the feast of the part, and therefore the weekly observation thereof ought to he
nativity, Easter, &c." perpetual, end to continue in full force and virtue to the world's
These passages distinctly do away with the Sabbath, and end. 2. The Saturday, or seventh day of' the week, ought to
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place the obsmatation of Lord's day on the ground of human be an everlasting holy-day in the Christian Church, and the re-
authority. In the books of some early authors who adopted ligious observation of this day obligeth Christians under the Gos-
these views, may be found frequent references to a difficulty pel, as it did the Jews before the coming of Christ. 3. 'The
which drove them to deny the perpetuity of the Sabbath. Bish- Sunday, or Lord's day, is an ordinary woi king day ; and it is
op Mille, in 1635, says :—" If the fourth commandment, con- superstition and will-worship to make the same the Sabbath of
cerning the keeping of the seventh day, is moral and perpetual, ,the fourth commandment." These opinions were vindicated by
then it is not such in respect to the first and eighth day ; for this Brabourne, in two volumes, which appeared, one in 1628, and
precept requireth the observance of that one only day which it the other in 1632. They have never been answered to the satis-
specifieth in that commandment." In speaking of Lord's day, he faction of many candid minds. It is true an answer has been
says :—" Every day of the week and of the year is the Lord's ; attempted. But this answer, laboring as it did mainly to prove that
and the Sunday is no more the Lord's by the law of the fourth such doctrine" is repugnant to the public sentence of the Church
commandment, than the Friday ; for the Lord's day of that of England. and to the sentence of divines who lived at the begin-
fourth commandment is the Saturday." ning of the Reformation," could not satisfy one who believed the
In each of those quotations it seems to have beton felt to be Scriptures to be a sufficient rule of faith and practice.. To these
inconsistent to allow the perpetuity of the Sabbath, without keep- volumes might be added others, which appeared soon after, and to
ing the seventh day. But to conic back to this ancient day, and the results of which, living witnesses have testified from that day
keep it in company with Jews, seemed too great a chinige.— to this. It was while the discussion just referred to was yet in
Hence the abrogation of the institution was asseried sais the ea- progress, that King James, in 1618, published his Book of Sports
siest way of escaping from the dilemma. John Milton speak- for Sunday, in which is set forth, that " by the preciseness of some
ing of' this difficulty, says :—" If we under the Gospel are to magistrates and ministers in several places in this kingdom,
regulate the time of our public worship by the prescriptions of in hindering people from their recreations on the Sunday ; the
the Decalogue, it will surely be far safer to observe the serenth papists in this realm being they( by persuaded that no honest
day, according to the express command of God, than, on the au- mirth or recreation was tolerable in oar religion," wherefore, it
thoray of mere human conjecture, to adopt the first." p'enred his majesty to set out his declaration, " that for his good
Another influence which led to the resection of the Sabbath people's lawful recreation, his pleasure was, that after the end
by these men. was the view of it which was held by the Roman of divine service, they should not be disturbed, Jetted, or dis-
Church. When the leaders of the Reformation separated from monraged from any lawful recreation, such as dancing, either
that church, it was claimed that all her festival days, including men or women, archery for men, leaping, vaulting, or any oth-
Sunday, were holier than other days, not only in relation to the er such harmless recreations ; nor from having of May-games,
use made of them, but to a natural and inherent holiness where- Whitsun-A les. or Morrice-dances, or setting up of May-poles,
with they thought them to be invested. In addition to this, ma- or other sports therewith used ; so as the same be had in due
ny and hurtful restraints had been imposed upon the consci- and convenient time, without impediment or let of divine ser-
ences of God's people, until these were days cf punishment, vice." This was designed in part, probably, to counteract what
rather than holy pleasure and profit. Seeing the days pervert- was then called the puritan notion, and may be regarded as ex-
ed from their real design, and made the means of strengthening pressing the opinion of the English Church at that time in re-
papal power, it is not surprising that they were discarded to- gard to the sacredness of thc day. The same was re-published
gether. Anxious to escape one error, they cinbreced another in 1636, by Charles, with how much real effect upon the prac-
equally dangerous. tices of men it is not easy to determine.
2. Bat another class of Reformers, (probably somewhat fear- It is evident that a reaction in favor of the insfitution had al-
ful of the consequences of those lax notions to w Walt we have ready commenced ; and the ecrnestness of Puritanism on this
just referred,) considering that the Sabbath was given in Para- subject, joined to the influence of Sabbatarianism, has affected
dise, rehearsed at Sinai, and placed among the precepts of the almost thewhole body of the English Church. Puritanism and
Decalogue, declared that it must be moral in its nature, and per- Sabbatarianism deserve the credit of having preserved to that
petually binding. But having allowed its perpetuity, and hav- country a regard for the day of rest, which raises them infinite-
ing rested as claims upon the fourth commandment, the way of ly above many other Protestant countries. Had they taken
explaining and enforcing the change of the day, presented an Scripture ground, the result can hardly be predicted.
obstacle to the spread of this view. How this was removed, let By what .has here been said in regard to the observation of
their own words answer. Dr. Bound, in I565, says, " The the Sabbath, after the Reformation, it is not to be supposed that
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fourth commandment is simply and perpetually moral, and not ,there are no traces of it since the Christian era until that time.
ceremonial, in whole or in part." Richertaii Bilficid, 163(1, says.i It is believed that there have been-Christians in every age who
"The fourth commandment is part of the law el' nature, and have kept. holy the seventh day. During the first three centu-
thus part of the image of God, and is no more capab'e of a ce- ries of the Christian Church, the Sabbath seems to have been
remony to be in it than God is." Afterwards Ito- says, "The almost universally kept. It was kept generally in the Eastern
institution of the Lord's day is clearly in the work of Christ's Church for six hundred years. And from that time onward to
resurrection ; as the institution of the seventh day was in the the present, frequent traces of Sabbath-keepers may be found,
work of finishing the creation." " The resurrection applieth either in the history of individuals, or in the acts of Councils
and determineth the Sabbath of the fourth commandment to theil against those who kept it. These notices extend to the time of
Lord's day." Such was the course of reasoning adopted by the Reformation ; and as frequent as are the references to the
this class of persons. Having established the morality and per- first day of the week under the title of Lord's day.
petuity of the Sabbath by means of Scripture, and brought I When we enter upon that period of Reform, we find that
the sanctions of the word of God to sustain them ; they apply all Sabbath-keepers appear in Germany late in the fifteenth or ear-
this to the support of an institution, the existence and time of I ly in the sixteenth century, according to Ross's Picture of All
keeping which is inferred from Christ's resurrection. It is easy Religions. By this we are to understand that their numbers
to see whet must have been the consequence. were such as to lead to organization, and attract attention. A
titE REVIEW AND HERAiii.
atantheref these- formed a church, and emigrated to America inr gradually gained strength in this country from that period ; but
*nearly settlement of the country. There went Sabbath.keep-I it has found much to oppose its progress, even in Rhode Island.
ors in Transylvania, among whom was Francis Davidis, first It was in opposition to the general practice of Christians, on
olnaplain to the Court of Sigismund, the prince of that kingdom, which account an odium was put upon it, and those who have
and afterwards-superintendent of all-the Transylvaniah church-, kept the Sabbath have been reproached with Judaizing, and
es In France, also, there were Christians of this class, among! classed with Jews. Besides this, they have been subjected to
wham was M. de la Roque, who wrote in defence of the Sab- great inconvenience in their occupations, especially in cities and
bath, against Bossuet, the Catholic Bishop of Meaux. But it is towns. In Connecticut the laws were intolerant and oppressive
diffictilt to determine to what extent this day was observed in to the Sabbath cause.
those countries. At no time does there appear to have been in this country
in England we find Sabbath-keepers very early. Dr. Chant. any general excitement on this subject. The friends of Sunday
be says : " They arose in England in the sixteenth century," have avoided as far as possible its discussion ; so that those who
from which we understand that they then became a distinct de- have observed the Sabbath have had but little encouragement,
nomination in that kingdom. They increased considerably in as they have supposed, to try to extend their sentiments. But
the, seventeenth century; and we find that towards the close of the propagation of their opinions has not exclusively depended
that century there were eleven flourishing churches in different on their efforts. The common English version of the Bible has
of the country. Among those who teld this view are some been found in many instances a sufficient means of converting
names of distinction. Theophilus Brabourne was called before men to the Sabbath. Churches observing and assembling on
the Court of High Commission, in 163`i, for having written and the Sabbath, have been founded in Rhode Island, Connecticut,
published books vindicating the claims of the seventh day. One New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Caroli-
Traske was about the same time examined in the Starr Cham- na, Georgia, and in most of the new States, embracing, as is
ber where a long discussion about the subject seems to have supposed, a population of forty- or fifty thousand.—Sabbath
been held. Nearly thirty years after this, John'James, preach. Tract No. 4.
er to a Sabbath-keeping congregation in te east of London, was
executed in a barbarous manner, upon • a variety of charges,
among which was his keeping of the Sabbath. Twenty years THE REVIEW AND HERALD.
later still, Francis Bampfield died in Newgate, a martyr to non- .4`y them theovilt My truth;
conformity—especially as one who could not conform in the truth."
matter of the Sabbath. It is needless to mention other names, PAM'S, JANUARY, 1851.
OS to speak particularly of Edward, Joseph, Dr. Joseph and Dr.
Samuel Stennett, John Maulden, Robert Cornthwaite, and others, OUR PRESENT POSITION.—[Continued.]
Who have written and suffered .in proof of their attachment to Tan SANCTUARY.—Daniel was told that the cleansing of the Sanctua-
this truth. ry would be at the end of the 2300 days. " Unto two thousand and
But the Sabbath found great opposition in England, being as- three hundred days ; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.".----Dan.
sailed both from the pulpit and the press, by those who were at- 14. There is no intimation of a space of time between the end of the
tached to the established church. Many men of learning and days and the cleansing of,the Sanctuary. Whatever it may be, the work
talent engaged in the discussion on both sides of the question. of cleansing it immediately follows the end of the days. Now if the
It is evident that the opposers of reform felt unable to defend 2300 days commenced s. c. 457, as published to the world by Advent-
'themselves against the strength of talent and Scripture brought ists up to 1844, and as clearly shown by the " Advent Herald "of 1850,
against them. Therefore, as in similar cases, they excited the then they terminated in 1844, and we, as consistent men and Christiana,
civil powers to check the progress of the Dissen'ers by-passing should look to that point of time for the work of cleansing the Sanctuary
the famous. Conventicle Act. By this law, passed in 1.634, to commence.
was provided, that if any person, above sixteen years of age, If the days ended in 1844, and we believe that they did, then, certain-
yvas present at any meeting of worship different from the Church ly, the Sanctuary to be cleansed at their end is not the land of Canaan,
of England, whyre-there were five persons more than the hOuse- for the simple reason that that land is not, being cleansed.' Therefore, it
hold, for the first offence he should be imprisoned three months,
is inconsistent to hold on to the view that the lend of Canaan is the Sanc-
or pay five pounds ; fur the second, the penalty was doubled ;
tuary, while successfully proving the comtnencement of the days B. C.
and for the third he should be banished to America, or pay one-
hundred pounds sterling. This act was renewed in 1669, which, 1457, the crucifixion in the spring of A. D. 31, consequently the end of
in addition to the former penalties, made the person preaching the seventy weeks in the autumn of A. D. 31, and the termination of the
liable to pay a fine of twenty pounds ; and the same penalityl 2300 days in the autumn of 1844. We do not believe that there is 4
was imposdd upon any person suffering a mccting to be held 'in blank space of already more than six years between the end of the days
his house. Justices of the Peace were empowered to enter such and the clearsing of the Sanctuary.
houses, and seize such perso ns; and they were fined one hund- B/ a c ireful iiiv3stig trio r of th.s sa!-)j let we have beau led to believe
red pounds if they neglected doing so. These acts were ex- that the Sanctuary, mentione,1 in RM. viii, 14, is not the lalid of Canaan ;
ceedingly harassing to those who observed the Sabbath. Many but the New Jerusalem Sanctuary spoken of by the Apostle as follows :
ofotheir distinguished ministers were taken from their flocks and -`• Now of the things which we hate spoken this is the sum : We have
confined in prison, some of whom sunk under their sufferings. anch an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the
These persecutions not only prevented those who kept the Sab-
Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the'SANCTUARY, and of the
bath froni assembling, but deterred some who embraced their
true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man."—Heb viii, 1,
opinions from uniting with them, and discouraged wheys from
investigating the. subject. At present the Sabbath is nut as ex- 2. In fact we do not know of one text of Scripture in all the Bible
tensively observed in England as formerly. But the extent of where the land of Canaan is called the Sanctuary,
Sabbath-keeping cannot be determined by the number and mag- The definition of the word Sanctuary is," a sacred place." Tho land
nitude of the churches, either there, or in other countries. Por of Canaan is not such a place. No one will attempt to prove th at it is,
malty persons live in the Observation of the seventh day and re- We are aware that many are ready to reject the view that the Sanctua-
main members of churches which assemb'e on the first day ; ry to he.cleansod at the ead of the days is in heaven, for want ot informa-
and a still greater number acknowledge its correctness, who con- tion on the point, for, say they," diem can be nothing that needs cleans-
form to the mere popular cas'om of keeping the first day. lug in heaven, " We will here give one text from Paul's clear com-
At what time the Sabbath ltiekne the subject of atteation on mentary on the raw, where he speaks of the earthly and heavenly Sane-
'this side of the A:Jamie we cannot dt.fiAitely say. The in oior- tuariezt, and will notice, the objection inure fully in another place. This
once of the first settlers of New England was unfavorab:e to the ono text, however, fully answ.:rs the objection.
Sabbath. The poor Chrisian that m ty have been bamshed to ;erne necessary that, the patterns [worldly Sanctuary] of
‘• It was
this country for its obanwanee could find no refuge among the
The laws of Rhode Island wore more toler- things in a. heavens should i,s porifiel [.‘ cleanset." M mknight's
Filorint Father.3.
ant, and Observers of the Sabbath first made their appearance in trarie.) with these ; but dm :heavenly things themselves [heavenly Sans
Newport, in that Slate, its- 1671. The cause of the Sabbath has t.aryj with better NcriSleo than 4hwe.".-4.1th: ix,'XL Bore. we.,
THE IttVIt\V AND
that the" heavenly things," which can refer to nothing but the Sancta-1 of his Sanctuary, the Psalmist in verses e8, 6S, tells es what the Sane=
ary in heaven, was to be ''purified,'' "cleansed," by better sacrifices" teary was which his hands established, as follows. " But chase the
than that of beasts. They were to be cleansed by virtue of the atoning ' tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion whieb he loved, And be BUILT his
blood of the Son of God. Those, therefore, who are at war with the 'SANCTUARY like HIGH PALACES." The" border." or" place"
idea of the heavenly Sanctuary being cleansed, differ widely with the l er the Sanctuary, where God planted his periple, was tine thing, and the
Apostle Paul, and are at war with his comment on the law: iSenetuary itself, tvinieh he caused to be built "like high palaces," was
The word Sanctuary occurs more than one hundred times in the Bible, entirely another tinier. The people were planted; mid 11W elt in the for-
and in most cases it applies to the tabernacle end temple of the Jews, trier, bit God dwelt in the; latter, among his pedple. " The Lord spite
sometimes to a part, and sometimes to the whole. It, is mentioned four unto noses, Saying, Speak undo the children of Israel : Let them
times in the l'4w Testament, aJ1 in the epistle to the Hebrews. In make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them," That Sanctuary
chapter ix, 1, 2 ; xiii, 11, it refers to the Sanctuary of the first cove- was '' a sacred place." There the Lord placed his name, and manifest,
mint, and in chapter viii, 2, it applies to the second eovenaut Sat:cone- ed bin glory. It is clear that no other Sanctuary is brought to view in
ry, which the "Lord pitched " in heaven. In three texts nude [Ex. Ex, xv, 17; Ps. lxxviii, 54. than the pattern of the " tine Tabernacle''
xv, 17 ; Ps. lxxviii, 54 ; lea. lxiii, 18] it is supposed by sonic that the in heaven, which Gel caused to be built "like Aigic palaces.'' Why
word Sanctuary applies to the land of Canaan. But by a close examin- should we confinund the '• border" or " place" of the Sanctuary, which
ation of these texts we may see that such a view rests upon a mere f was the promised land. with the typical Sanctuary itself/ Certainly
supposition. The " Advent Herald" for April 27, 1850, says; there is no necessity for so doing. And there is no inure propriety in
"What are we to understand by the 'cleansing rho sancluary ,r,; 'such a course. than them would be in asserting that a honse, and the
' understand ' this correctly we must ascertain tt hat is meant by the Yard or farm around it were ena arid the same thing. And to say that'
sanctuary.' Fhe word sanctuary is used by the insplred writers in the Es, xv, 17; Ps. n xrviii, 54, which speak of " tine place,'' and " the
following significations. 1. It is the name a particular pert of the border'' of the Sanctuary, as well as the Sanctuary itseif, prove that
temple.—Heb. ix, 2. 2. The diTerent apartments or the temple.—Jer._ the promised land is the Sanctuary, is cleat to asserting that a farm mid
li, 51. 3. The temple itself-1 Chron. xiii, 19 i0. 4. pia
ces of worship generally, trite or false —Amos vii, 0 ; Eze. x x\ 18 : a bootie are mnly a house. We use this simple figure to make the ern r,
Dan. viii, 11. 5. Heaven is called the sanctuary.—Ps. cii, 19. 6. that this land of Can- tan is the Sanctuary, appeer in its true light, We
The promised xv, 17; I's. lxxviii, 54 ; Isa, 'rill, 18. 7. sea. that theta two texts, when examined the light of truth and reason,
The tabernacle of God the heavenly state.--Ezee xxxvii. 26,
These are the principal signifieations of the word sanctuary, in die are found to eoutaiu, in themselves, sulficined proof to condemn the ‘iew
word of God.. According to which of these sip:Ira:miens is the word to that the promised land is called the-Sanctuary.
be understood in the text before us? I think lira most obvious sense Is The other text that is quoted to sustain this position is Isa. lxiii, 18.
that which points out the promised land ; One it must b^ cwitlent to every a, " The people of thy holiness have possessed it [the promised land, or
one that the sanctuary hero spoken of most be enpahle of beinO trodden
under foot,' and of baling clea•sed.' and as I thmk we shall see, of be- the '• inheritance '] but a little while : our adversaries hnVe trodden..
log cleansed a.t the coming of Christ anti the resorrection ref tine right- down thy sanctuary." The history of the Jews shows a perfect fulfill-
Coos dead. The text should also he understood in a sense that will ment of this text, thci.e.fme, the Sanctuary mentioned in the text refers
monize with other cases in which the word is used by Daniel in rarie tt- to the typical Sanctuary.
lar, with the views of the other prophets, and the word of God gener-
ally.." There is no mere necessity for, or propriety in, confoundirg the " in
With the first four, and the seventh and last, " sit nil " of the heritance," with the Sanctuary in this text, than in Ex. xv, 17, and Ps.
word Sanctuary, as given above, we agree. The texts are plain and 5-1. It is true that the " tribes " of Israel " possessed " the
afford positive testimony; but with the fifth and sixth we widely differ. promised land'' but a little while,'' and it is also true that their " ad-
There is no positive testimony that " heaven " is called the Sanctuary. versaries." did tread down their Sanctuary, by desecrating, and dasola-
That God's Sanctuary, the '• true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched. tino their Temple.
and not man," the " greater and more perfect Tabernacle •' of which Says the Heral,l,"—" It must he evident to every one that the
Christ is a " minister," is IN HEAVEN, we have abundance of plain sanctuary here spoken of must he capable of being " trodden under
Scriptrue testimony. See Hela viii, 1-1 ; ix, 11, 23, 2,1; Rev. i, 12, foot," and of being cleansed."
13 ; xi. 19 ; xv, 5. The text referred to above, to prove that heaver, it No one believes that the words " trodden under foot," and " trodden
called the Sanctuary, is as follows: " For he bath looked down Conn down," mean that the entire land of Canaan lois been literally trampled
the height of his sanetuary from heaven did the Lord behold the earth.'' down by the feet 01' wicked mac, any more t111:1 the text, '• 1 will tread
Ps cii, 19. • down the people in mine anger," Isl.. lxiii, 6, means that the Almighty
is on literally trampl3 nit 111.?.U. Tiles; that teach that " the I remised
The most natural, and the obvious meaning of this text is, that the
land '' is the S =teary must, therefbr.a. admit that the wo.ris " trodden
Sanctuary, from the " height " of which the Lord " looked down " to
under foot," tend " trod,le:t down," are figurative expressions, and mean
" behold the earth," is the" Temple of God in heaven" in which " was that the promised land has been overrun with '• the wicked agents of its
seen " the " ARK OF HIS TESTAML:NT." view is
This StiStained 133' a desolation.'"f lien 11.ev thoald lot oi,cct to oar t sit g the n al resin
mass of' plain Scriptare testimony, while the other thew has only an in- figuratively, in implying the words " trodden Juan" [Isa.
Terence from Ps. cii, 19, to sustain it. 18] to
We object to the sixth definition of the word Sanctuary, that it is .31 the typical Smeteary, and the words " trodden under foot [Dan. viii,
to " the true Tahrrmicle " or. " Sanctuary " iu heaven.
" the promised land;" because that view has no other ftrandatiam (hart
It may be said that the heavenly Summary is not "capable of being
weak and unwarrantable inferences from only three texts of Scripture. trodden under Oao." Ilia we ask, is it not as capable of tieing trodden
We Rave never seen but three texts quoted to sustain this view. Thesa, under flint es " the Son of God," who is the " MINISTER " of the
we will now examine.
seine Sanctuary? Says Paul :
The first is Ex. xv, 17, "Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them "of h nroon e son:• nu rnot, suppose yo, shrill 11:=t be thought won Ihy, who
in the mountain of thhm inheritance, in the place, 0 _Laird, which thou Null trthp•Delava:,, asA uwh
'Ca I :
the sanctuary, 0 Lord, which thy r den-Tire unto theNTSIiint.It 11-t (FfItnii 1.(1.. [xi, E.
dens ••%" (1"11:11.1t7;
bast made for thee to dwell inn ; it of (in :we."--11Lb. 3,, 29.
hands have established." This is a part of tine prophetic stung of Muses We say, then, that the &Loamy in heaven has been trodden ender
sang by Israel upon the banks of the Red Sea, in praise to Go d for their foot in the same sense that the Son of God has been trodclairunder (bunt.
deliverance, and in prospect of their settlement in Canaan. Its fulfill- T n a manner has- the " host," the true church, also, been trodden
meet is declared in Ps. lxxviii, 54, which is the second text claimed as down. Those who have rejected the Son of God have trodden him in:-
proof that the promised land is the Sanctuary. " And he brought them der foot, and of' course' have trodden under fiat his Sanetuary.
to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right
The Catholic Church have trodden under foot, not only the " Holy
band had purchased•" .Cruden says—" By 'Sanctuary here [Ex. xv, City." hit the Sanctuary, anti its Minister, or Priest, " the Son of God."
47] may be understood the temple on Moutit Moriah, which Go:I would 'Rome has been called " the Holy City," and the " Eternal City," which
certainly cause to be built and established."
can only be said of the City of the living God; the New Jerusalem.
This view is shown to be correct from the context of Ps.
{ The, Pope has professed to have "power on earth to forgive sins,"
After declaring in verse 54,
that (391 brought his people to th4 totud3rL which power LK:lungs .alone to eltrist; The pope leave beeytaught to
THE REVIEW AND HERALt/. 29
rhdlt to " the man of sin," seated in his temple, of as Paul says—" so " Now of the thanes which we have spoken this is the sum: We hate such
that he as God sitteth in the temple of God," Sec.—insteed of looking to an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the
heavens; a minister of the Sanctuary; and of The true tabernacle, which the Lord
Jesus, seated at the right hand of the Father, in the heaVenly Sanctua- pitched and not man, . . . For if he -were on earth, he should not be a priest,
ry. In thus turning away from Jesus, who alone -could forgive sins, [Here is positive proof that Christ's liniesthood was not fulfilled on earth at the
time of the first advent, but, that it was to be fulfilled in heaven, after his ascen-
and give eternal life, and in bestowing on the Pope such titles as MOST sion,' seeing that there are priests that otThr gifts according to the law. Who
HOLY LORD, they lave "trodden under foot the Son of God." And serve unto the example and shadow of HEAVENLY THINGS, as Moses was
admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for see (saith he)
in Balling Rome the " Eternal City," and the " Holy City,'' they have that thou make all things t.lcurding to the pattern slimed to thee in the mount."
trodden down the City of the living God, and the heavenly Sanctuary. Chapter viii, 1-5,
The " host," the true church that have looked to Jesus in the true The " pattern" that was shewed to Moses was the " TRUE TAB-
Sanctuary for pardon of sins, and eternal life, has, as well as their ERNACLE," or Sanctuary in heaven, of which Christ is now a " Min-
Divine Lord and his Sanctuary, been trodden under foot. Yes, the true ister " or Priest. Did Moses obey God, and follow the " pattern ?"—
worshipers have been rejected and persecuted, and some of the bright- He certainly did. Then what overwhelming evidence we have before
est " stars," or gospel ministers, in the church hate been " stamped us that the type is a perfect guide to the substance, a guide to lead us to ,
upon " by the little horn. a correct view of the priesthood of Christ in the heavenly Sanctuary.-
The Protestant sects, with their spiritualizing views, in denying the 0. what a Wide field of hiving truth this view spreads out belbre us.
existence of the person of God the Father, the personality of the " Son "Then verily the first cotenant hail also ordinances of divine service, and ae
worldly sancthaiy For theme was a tabernacle made; the (it st whet ein w E the'
of Gad,'' the literal City and S.inetuaty, have also acted their part in candlestick, and Ilfe table, an i the chew-blend t which is called the sanctum ye,—
treading under foot the Sanctuary. k n:1 after the second veil, the tabernacle n hit+ is called the holiest of all; which
had the golden censer,and the Rik of the covenant :Nei laid ruin about with gold,
Adventists who reject the true ScripturC3 light on this subject, and whnrein was the g pot that had manila, and Aaron's rod that buckle , and
teach that the Sanctuary to be cleansed at the end of the 23u0 days is the the tables of the yovenant. And over it the shark-bets or glut y wing the
" promised land," notwithstanding they have not one text to prove it, met eta-seat; of vs high we cannot now speak mu ticulai Iv. Now into these things
were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first whet uncle, am:calif lish-
are also, engaged in this work of treading tinder foot the Sanctuary. log the service of God: But into the seconi went the high priest alone once every
year.''._Chapter ix, 1-7.
It is supposed by some that the heavenly Sanctuary is not capable of
These things mentioned by the Apostle were all made according to
being cleansed, for the reason that there can be nothing filthy in heaven.
the pattern slimed to Moses while in the Mount. The place for the
But we are aware that this objection is often urged for want or an un-
" candlestick " was in the Holy. John, therelbre, had a view of Jesus-,
derstanding of this important subject. No sane person believes that the
while ministering in the Holy Place of the heavenly Sanctuary, a me---
heavenly Sanctuary needs cleansing from physical uncleanness, as we
tliator for all the world,
would cleanse a room or a garment. The type will give lig,ht on this
" And I turtle I to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw
point. And here we will observe that we have the example of mu. Di- seven golden candlesticks: [" And dont shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and
vine Master, and the Apostle Paul, for referring to the type. Said Je- they shall light the lamps th.treof, gLe. '—Ex. )(NA', 37;1 And in the midst of the
seven candlesticks, one like unto the Son of man, i, 12, 13.
stts.to his disciples,—
John also saw, while looking down the stream of time, in prophetic-
" These are the words which I snake unto you, while I was vet with you, that vision, to the sounding of the seventh angel, Jesus our Great High
an things must be fulfilled which were wi itten in the LAW OF MOSES, and in
the prophets, and in the psalms concerning me.' —Luke xxiv, 44. Priest move aside the second vail, and pass into the Most Holy, where
When Paul was a prisoner at Rome, he " called the chief of the Jews, " was seen the ark containing the ten commandments," or to use Paul's.
together," "unto his lodging," " to whom he expounded and testified) words, " the tables of the covenant."
" And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his tem-
the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the l ple the.aik ef his testament."—Rev. xi, 19.
LAW OF MOSES, and out of thii prophets."—Acts xxviii. 23. Here Will any one try to spiritualize these things? and say that there is no
we see that Jesus and Paul both refer to Moses, evidently to the law of literal Sanctuary, with its Holy, and Mist Holy, the Ark containing the
types. And we believe that 'if those who preach Christ would more ten commandments, the candlestick, &c., in -heaven Such as ,do
closely follow the example of the Great Teacher, and the Apostle Paul, this can as well spiritualize the " Son of man,'' seen by John, and deny
and trace each shadow tt its glorious substance,-the " good things to his personality. We have spurt the sad fruits of the spiritualizing sys-
come," the true light would blaze all about them. And they and their tem, and have also seen that it is safest to take the word of God as
h a •ors would he enlightened and comforted, as were the two lonely it reads.
disciples Iravelirr to Ernmaus, who exclaimed, " Did ilia our heart burn "But Christ being (-nine a high pi lest cf good things to come,.by a grater anal
within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to more pet feet. tabernacle, net made with hunds.." " It us mi. therdin e acres, at y that,
the patter ns or things in the heavens should he purified with these; but the heav,
us the Scriptures." But some that profess to preach Christ at this day enly things themselves with better suet ifices than these."—1 bay ix, 11, 23.
are, no doubt, much more blind and "slow of heart " to believe, and These extracts from the epistle of Paul to the Hebrews, (who ender.,
guilty than those that Jesus rebuked as follows: stood the law,) make the subject clear. Moses made the Tabernacle,
" 0 fools and slow of heat t to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Ought with its apartments and furniture, according to the pattern shewed him
not Ch..ist tai h ye suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And begin-
ning at MOSES and all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the setip-
in the ument. That pattern was the " true 'ha barnacle " iu heaven,,
tures the things concerning himself."—Luke xxv, 25, 26, 27. with its apartments and ferriiturin Men of infirmity ministered in the.
The typical Sanctuary [see Lev. xvi,] was cleansed, not front phys- worldly Sanctuary, hut the Son of God in the heavenly. The worldly
ical uncleanness, but from time sins of Israel. Sanctuary was cleansed yearly by the blood of beasts, but the heavenly
" And lie shall make an atonement for the holy [holiest, place, IS Ruprlied,1 t (-- at the end of the 2300 days, by virtue of the blood of the Son of God,
cause of the uncleanness of the children ot Israel, and because of their transgres- The following it from " Adtient Herald," Sept. 7, 1850 :—
sions in all their sins."—Vet sc 16.
" R. R. Yortx.—We have no new light respecting the connection between the
The holiest of all was cleansed once a year, then no one entered it, 70 weeks an 2300 days. The only at gnatent agaittstto their connection is, the pas-
us, which we watt to have
sing of the time, Why that. has passed is a mystery
not even the high priest, till a year had expired, when it needed cleans- roitiale . Should we heat: any sound 'reasons fir explaining the disappointment,
ing again. . This is sufficient to show every candid person that the cleans- we shall be pt otni.t to pi esent tnem. In the meantime, we can substitute no gueses
which may be wrong, and only mislead. We leave that to others."
ing of the typical, and also the antitypical, Sanctuary is the removal of or supposititms,
the sins of God's people from it. This is done in the type and antitype, As long as the " Harald '' holds on to the unscriptural view that the
by the people first confessing their sins, second, the priest makes atone- promised land is the Sanctuary, " the passing of the time" will still re-
ment for their sins and confesses them on the head of the scape-goat, main a " mystery." But let the Herald take the plain scripture view of
and third, they are borne away into the land of separation. Then the the cleansing of the Sanctuary, and the " mystery " is at once explained,
Sanctuary is " cleansed," We have not space tit examine this subject and explained so as to, perfectly harmonize with the Advent movement
in a thorough manner, therefore, we refer the reader to the " Advent in the past. Certainly their present position is a "mystery," and must
remain such, unless they change their views very much on some points..
Review," a pamphlet of 48 pages. Pages 37-48, contain a clear and
valuable expoSithen of the atonements, by 0, R. L. Crosier, We would wo, what e the " Herald" do to explain this " mystery," so as to,
also refer the reader to a divine comment on the law. It is the Apostle be able to give satisfactory light, to answer the inquiry that is now be-
Paul's gpistie to the Hebrews, from which we will. here ,give 4 few es- ing awakened on this subject? Many are saying, " Watchman what of
obelligh4;" ,they will 'netlie satisilelly by being toIci thal why that
Astksta.
80 THE REVIEW AND IIERALD.
time ‘• has passed remains a mystery," &c. Will the " Herald " tryll God instituted a Sabbath ; and that blessed and haln,
to prove that the 2300 days will erid at some future date? This we only weekly Sabbath of the Bible. Jesus says, it" was made me
think it will not do ; for it has already proved, beyond all Controversy, —all mankind. Unless it 'can be shown that the Sabbath law has been
that the days began B. c. 457, and terminated in 1844. And it has, for abrogated, we are bound to believe that the gospel church may share the
a few years, been opposed to this perpetual stretching out the 2300 days, blessings of the Sabbath of the Bible. Amen.
from spring to fall, and from- fall to spring. All must see that such a
course must disgust the people, and deetroy the faith of those who are [Letter from Bro. Butler ]
thus flattered on, from one point of time to another. to find the- end of Dent Brother and Sister Wilhite: Your kind and affectionate letters
the days, and are as often disappointed. We see re way to explain this came duly to ham], and we were glad to hear that you were again corn-
" mystery " but by the light of present truth. The belief that the. Sanc- ing into Vermont, and will hold some meetings. We wish you to hold
tuary to be. cleansed at the end of the 2300 days is the promised land, :a conference at our house.
and that it is to be cleansed at the coining of Christ, ; and that the 70 Sitacai have been converted to the sitter noon, and seventh day Sab-
weeks commenced n. c 457, consequently, the 2300 days terminated in bath I have been out in this town, and some of the neighboring towns,
1844, certainly must be a " mystery " to these who live in 1851! laud amend Lake Champlain, to try to get off some of the prejudiee from
Dear brethren and sisters, we will humbly thank our gracious Father other minds, which I so deeply felt in my own. Some have been con-
that in the present truth there are no such mysteries, and contradictions, verted to the present truth, and some prejudice (I trust) removed. I
as are seen in the position of' those who reject their past experience, and have learned from conversation with others, as well as by pest experi-
ptesent light. Amen. W. ence, that the shut door has been the gaol shoat on to which the Ad-
ventists have run their ship, and thundered. They have been running
Last September-at the Sutton Conference, we had the pleasure, for their small boats this way and that way, to see if' they could get around
the first time, of meeting with our beloved brother Stephen Smith, of it ; but have not been able. So they undertake to cover up the " land-
Lernpster, N. H. He gave us the names of a number, and wished us marks" behind them. Some say, we have had the message in Rev. xiv.
to send the paper to them. Among the names was George W. Barns. 0, 7, the roe followina in verse 8, and the going that] of the virgins,
We have sent the paper to him regularly, and it has been a pleasure to &.e., (m, to matt. xtv "while the Bridegroom tarried, they ail
Lend at out free of charge. We have supposed that if' any professed slumbered and slept ;" but have not had the true Midnight Cry. When
Christian received the paper, who did not want it, he would resent one asked, when, how, and where they can have in they answer, by'An-
'copy, which is sufficient to show that he desires it discontinued. But g'els sent forth to give it ; others don't know. Some think we have
instead of this, G. W. B. sent us every unchristian letter, not Post paid. had the firSt and second Angels messages; another thinks we have had
Here is a part of it the first; but don't believe any thing in the second ; it has been a trial
" IItussonotton, N. II., Dec, 10, 1850. to them that any should call the Protestant Churches, Babylon. Still
Mr. James White—Sir : I have received three or four numbers of another believes, that if he acknowledges the first and second, he shall
your papers, have read them some, and find nothing in them of any use have to the third Angel's message, and he thinks he can he more con-
to me, or any Gentile. And until von can show me that hod has en- sistent to say we have bad none. You see how all these have shunned
joined upon the Gentiles to keep any Sabbath, and that this side of the the door. And still there is another class that believe we have had all
cross, I want no more of your papers, neither shall I take them from the down to the tree Mi(Inight Cry, and that God's power accompanied all
office. I find in the book that the law is a shadow (or a type) of good op these messages ; but why the Lord has not yet come, they know nut;
things to come; but 1 elo not find that time Gentiles are a typical people. but think probably the 2300 days have riot yet run out. They have been
But I find the law and prophets were until John. and then it was looking for /ight from their papers, where they used In, get it, but eemot
took out of the way, nailing it to his cross. So you see I am not living find it. They are satttere I ea the in mntains, without a shep-
under the law, but under the gospel. herd. Suture that had little experience previous to these nenvewents
Please read the 3d of 2 Corinthians, and believe it and obey it. and have given up to disappointment, and have stmt but lion: upon the sub-
you will find glory in the gospel that you do not find under the law. ject, and have gone, mere or less, into the world. They suppose the
GEORGE W. BARNS." shut door would exclude all the eneonverted, hiving had liem,ht, or no
-We pity those who mangle the word of God as G. W. B. has, and light; young, or old, from every degree of the Spirit of God. I think
are troubled with such an unkind spirit as is manifested in his letter. if this class could have the trim shut door set before them, and the third
We would help them. This is why we have introduced this extract. angers message, some of them would see the tree line of prophecy, nut
Says Paul, " For the law having a shadow of good things to come ;" rejoice again in the light. I have been striving to look up those who
but what law? Certainly not the law of God, the tell commandments. have not given up their past experience; m MOS.) messages, and try-
If G. W. B., or any body else, believes that the commandments are in to show them what the Sanctuary is, and what the slant door is, that
shadows, or types, let thent show us the bodies, substances, or '• goo.d i the Sanctuary, spoken of in Dan. viii, 14, IS being cleansed. * * *
things to come,'' of which the first, second, and third commandments' E. P. BUTLER.
are only shadows. Mark this : every shadow has a lamely. Tell us,
From the flaildeger meld Advocate.
what are the bodies, or " good things to come of the law Mr swearing,
WI1ERE • ARE WE?
'killing. stealing, coveting. and '- adultery." A in ! this confounding the
Batt. Marsh : Time hee a lodni rig very anxiously for something in some
law of God and the law of Muses in one, has led many poor souls in the of the Advent papers, that would refine our position ; end as yet I see
road to ruin. The law of Moses was written in a book, and its '• ordi- ;niting satisfactory. I know it is said, Nigh, even at the doors; but
nances" were blotted out, and nailed to the cross ; but God's law -.vas what I am at is this, Where in the word of God are we? In '93 and
engraven in store. What idea can men have of blotting out what Jeho- '44, We knew where we n'cre ; say for instance. Bev. xiv. 0 : And I
saw another angel fly in time midst of heaven.' We very well !thew
vah, with his finger, engraved in stone! then, the second angel's message—' Babylon is fallen.' Both are in the
We do not suppose that 0. W. B. really means that tlee law and past. Now I can draw, no other conclusion than this: If' we were cor-
prophets were nailed to John's cross, though he has given ;his idea, for rect in '43 and '44, as the Advert move did cotrespoud with just such
.10en was not crucified. He would lie loth to admit that the prophets are effect as the first and second angel's messages would produce, the
third angel in order follows with his messaae, and a loud one, too, as
were all blotted out also, and nailed even to the cress of Christ ! I We loud as the first: If any man worship the beast, and his image, at,d re-
have space only to hint at these Feints. . ceive his mar in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of
As it regards 2 Come chap. iii, we would ask if the " ministration" :up: wine o f the wrath el' God, &c. 12 v. : Here is the patience of the
of a law, and the law itself, are one and the same thing? The answer squats; here are they that heep the cornmandmeuts of God, (God the
Father.) and the Faith of Jesus (Jesus the Sea.) Now .1 am leti to it-
must be that they are not. Then with time view that the " ministration" quire, 1, Vhat, are tire conlinendinerns of God'? if they rite the nee cern:-
of the law is not the law itself, will G. W. B. and others read this mandments, written with the flume]. of God on the tabies of stone-?—
chapter once more. We do not expect that the " Review and Herald " The next inquiry is, Are we keeping the commandments of Goml,—eke- •
will be of any service to " Gentiles," but scores of letters received ry one of them? and have we the faith of Jesus! if so, we shall have a
teght to the tree of life, and. will enter in through the gates into the city.
might -testify that it is " meat; in due season " to those, who are 44 Jews"
INow, Bro. Marsh, as a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, epect-
" inwardly," Israelites " indeed) in whom there is NO GULLS." ising the 4.1rd of tite viueyaM soon, will jou *via :tuts tItto 4puotinwof
THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 31
e ight? Tell us if you know what the worship of the boast and his itre-:! 1. That Jesus did teach. and keep the seventh day Sabbath.
ace ; and what it is to receive his mark, in the forehead, or in tile ' 2. That it was not nailed to tint cross, and that all four of the, evan-
pa wl. I do not write this for dissension or any other mteive.—but for gelists speak of it in the same light after. ?le they did before the eruei-
fe.e ht. For one. I believe the, tree saints. or the wise, will understand. fixion. That the disciples kept it after dear Imrd was naded to the
M ty the Lord direct by his Spirit into his weld, and sanctify its in 'cross, hence it is as binding on the Gentiles. as oil the Jews, and never
the truth. Amen. c. w. s. ! was abolished be being nailed to the Cross
Bristol, Vt., Oct. 2,5, 1850. Our opponents say that Jesus never taught us in the New Testament
' that we should keep the Sabbath. I answer, neither did he ever show
The important inquiries of C. W. S. certainly deserve an answer from
!us that it ought not to be kett. The seventh day Sabbath is brought to
the editor of the " lIerhinger," and we shall wait to see them fairly an-;kie,, more than fifty times in the New Testament : seventeen times by
steered. If he does not answer them we shall. The spirit of itiquiry:!Jrstis himself, and twelve times, after his crucifixion by his disciples.
Met is now awaking all around us, relative bethe third aneei's messageMT hohath is latielit eleven times also, by and through the commend-
:eets, six times certainly affair the crucifixion of the Saviour, and thrice
will not be satisfied and silt:heed by such replies as the following, note,;.In the Revelation in all near seventy. A great portion of these our op-
from C. [Crosier.] fitments say there is no Sabbath ; vet they call the first day of the week
"ma New Testament must be our gaido in reference to the command:1101AF." the Sabbath. and profess to rest on that day. S.:0 their appointments for
C. ching
hprea on that day in the " Advent Herald," and the " Advent liar-
We want no better guide. The New Testament scriptures are plain.',,bi ng ee e,
We have space for three texts only. f Jesus taught that he \yes the Lora' of the Sabbath. In the Old Testa-
" If thou wilt enter into hie keep the emeremdments."-.4 E SO S ? No. he taught. it in the New. Did he kecp it under the mispel,
lie that snub I knew hint, and keepeth not his coznamn.iments, is a liar, nail'in the New Testammut ! Yes he did. See John xv, 10. " I have
kept my father s commentlinents." Is it possible for a living man to
the oath is not in lion."—Jonx. prove that he did in any way relax. or break the fiturfli commandment
"Blessed tee they that do his eomman haents, that they may have n il- ht to of tho ten'? the S.th ittii thli he was Lord off Certainty not. He is no
the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the City."—Rev. xxii, 14.l t s.te i nur to tbts, writ doubt his plain simple words.
M-trk says Heft " when the S-lbha th day was come • , he began to teach
tee Providence permitting we will be at New Ieswieh,N II., Tam 8th and 9th, im me , •
synagogue., —Chap. vi, e. See 1118() Luke iv, 31, and 16. It
et Washington, the 11th tied 12th, nail Waterbury, Vt., the 18th and 19th.— was his ouSTOM to read and teach on that day. All Christendom, as it
At this season of the year General Conferences will not be convenient, therefore, were, do the sante : but not on the Lord's Sabbath day A part of his
we Imre to be able to hold 'pectins in a munber of places in N. H. and Vt., "" • re el v to his disciples respecting his coming and the end of the won Id
hope that the brethren from towns near by such meetings will come together. II was,I 44 Pray ve that your flight be out in the winter, neither on the Sab-
The "Review and Ibsen " will be published occasienally in our tilkeetee• All i bath day." There was hot two points of time for this flight reTerred
communications relating to the paper, z.hould lac (lilt-Med to James White, Paris, to : first, the destruction of Jerusalem, the 30 years in the future, and
Me. Letters requiting an immediate answer, may be directed to Wete. bury, Vt.,' s?.etlnd, "'the great and terrible day of the Lord," the " time of trouble
JAmes W 111T E. such as never was,"I ask if am E Sabbath, the one Jesus was the Lord
'of, tuns lint el t idy rotiegeized 39, if not 1820 years beyond his crucifix-
Brn. Rhodes and Andrews returned from Eastern Maine Dec. 31. They ion. Call it the Jewis h Sahli eh, or any Other name that suits you best ;
a good number who have lived through the coefused scenes of fanaticism on th land limn imeet why they were not to flee on the Sabbath, and then you
one hand, and gross backsliding ant giving up the truth on the other, whn jorMlly have not dfsproved the perpetuity of TEE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, of
received the truth. They leave for Lancaster, N. H., end Sutton,Vt., the 5th. !I which Jesus is Lord. It is clear also that this title, given hits by his
1 1Pather, wits not nailed to the cross, nor cite it be ahulished while he has
True CHAR-v.—It is now ready. We think the brethren will be much pleased l a fellower to keep the S«bbalh. For "the Sabbath was mode for man."
with it, and that it will be a great help in defining- our present position. The cost By showing the commandments of God to he the foundation of all the
for about 240 will be near $250. Those whom God has called to give the mes-e j law, and the prophets, and the keeping of them the road to eternal life,
sage of the third angel can have it free. Brie in Conn., have raid .1--; 40 David and being highly esteemed in the reign of heaven, [Matt. xxii, 35-4().
Arnold, i5; A. R. Morse, ;$;10; Harvey Childsete5; Retaten Lovelaed, .5—eiTeuke x, 25-28. Mott. 19,] he proves, that the Sabbath is per-
Those who wish can send hi their donations, and if more is received than crmg,h'ipetual, and was not nailed to the (truss; because the whole ten were in-
to pay fur the Chart, it will be used in publishing the " Review toad eluded in the above teaching. See article on " N Testament cute-
The Chart can be had by addressing Otis N irhols, Dorchester, Mass. Price, I5:; 1,50. mandments." If the reader objects bet dose the Sabbath is not sepa-
rately quoted by Jesus, then by the sante rule he may obiect to the first,
LETTERS R EC EIVED slaver, Dec. 24.—Otis Nichols; Frederick Wheeler; second and tenth commandments ; for Jesus has not quot'Od them, only as
Win. Harris; F. M. Shill-leer; Mary Brown; Israel Camp; J. W. Heath; P. tin the alto' e, in the New Testement. Who for a moment supposes that
B. Lawrence; P. M. Bates; H. 0. Nichols; J. C. Bewles; John Kemp; Har- we may with impunity, have other gods, or how down to graven images,
vey Meren; Ira Aebey, 2.50; S. T. Belden, 2,50; 11-beit Gray, l;; 1; A. lor covet our neighbor's wife, hous..i, or lands, because he did not quote
' them separately 7—No one. If these three conunandments are bit-id:eta.
Belden, $'1, for others ; D. It. Palmer, .20.
here, it is clear that the Sabbath is also binding.
Fort SISTER SHIMPER—Sister Smith, of Jackson, Mich., tr,'5. If the Sabbath was to he perpetuated, says one, why did not Jesus
teach it clearly and distinctly. He has done it by enforcing, all tell of
PUBLICATIONS.
the commandments. It was not necessary for him to re-enact a law that
The ADVENT REVIEW, containing thrilling testimonies written in the even his enemies were so tenacious in observing. They even threatened
Holy Spirit, by snazzy of the leaders in the Second Advent cause, showing its Di- him with his life three several times for breaking the Sabbath law, as
vine triple and progress-46 pages. Ai's° the five numbers of the "Review," they said, when all that they could prove against him was that he had
tied the " Extra," by Bro. Hiram Edson. allowed some of his disciples to eat some raw wheat to satisfy hunger
The Present Truth, No. 1. The WE EICLY SABBATH taught and enforced ia and healed three men of their infirmities. He also said, The &Wale
the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments-28 pages. was made for man." What sort of men? Paul will answer. " Is he
'rho Seventhelay- Sabbath NOT ABOLISHED. The article by-Joseph Marsh, the God of the Jews only is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the
editor of the "Advent Ihubinger and Bible Advocate," 1tYVIEWED-56 pages. .Gentiles also."—Rom. iii, 29, " It is appointed unto men once to die,
but after death the judgment." The Jews? ves, the Gentiles also.
The Third Angel's Message-16 pages.
It would lie strange teaching indeed, for Jesus to say the Sabbath was
The Sanctuary, 2300 Days, and Shin Door-16 pages.
made for man, and yet men were to live and multiply for more than 18it0..
Bro. Miller's Dream, with notes-12 pages. 'Years after that law was blotted out. If the Sabbath was made for the
The above publications may be had by addressing Elias Goodwin, Oswego, N. Jews only, then as Jesus has said, "for man ," the Sabbath must be
Y ,Otis Nick ill, Dircheste,e Mass e or James White, Paris, Me., (PosT PAID.) perpetuated while the Jews as men exist. There is proof enough that
Terms—Gratis. Those who would consider it a pleasure, are invited to help 'they are not dead yet.
bear the expenses of publishing, as the Loud has prospered theta. tf ITHE SEVENTH DAY SA(13BA 1ws'Is l 'NOT NAILED TO THE.
NEW TESTAMENT SEVENTH DAY SABBATH. Our opponents say that the Sabbath was nailed to the cross, when Je-
Those who are keeping the seventh day Sabbath, in the third angel's I sus was crucified. They quote Col. ii, 14, 16, for proof. " Blotting,
message, arc opposed by a certain class of believers that were tecentlyt out the hand writing of ordinances, . . . . nailing it to his cross."
their teachers and fellow laborers while passing through the first, andl I" Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of
second angcl's messages, as recorded in Rev. xiv, 0—S. Ian holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath-days." The ver-
in tin points of their objections are these. ;siert here is incorrect. It should be " sabbaths." Days are supplied..
1. That Jesus never taught, neither did he ever enforce the Sabbath. 'See Whiting and Macknight. Verse 17th shows that the new moon,
Many say that he " selxxee" it. meats, drinks, and sabbaths, as were required to be observed yearly, are
2. That it was nailed to the cross, and never taught by the apostles : shadows. But the weekly Sabbath, that never was given for a feast day
hence, W3 are not bound to keep it since the crucifixion of Jesus. It :as the above were, is not a shadow, neither can it be unless all of God's
was all right, say they, for the Jews, to whom it was given under the ',commandments are shadows. If they are shadows, then of course they
Old Testament law ; but not for the Gentiles under the New. We dia. ;are blotted out, and there can be no sin. " For sin is the transgressioa
sent from this, and will now attempt to show, Id the kw." " Where no law is, there it: rte trartsgrs-msion." This
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settles the question forever. For Col. iii, 16.17, is the only seripthreinl trait as Jesus had kept it. His custom (ormanner) was to teach on the
the New Testament, that they can to fix on the time (hr the abolition, Sahbath.—See Luke iv, 16, 3t. After a while Pahl was at Corinth ;
of the Sabbath. This fails them, for Paul says that they are shadows. and there he reasoned with them every Sabbath, and was with them ono
But as they insist upon it that they are right, we will try the point by year and a half.—Acts xviii, 4, 11. This must be seventy-tight Sob-
the testimony. 'baths in succession. Many Gentiles believed, and were baptized. God
told him that he had much people in that city.
Tits. STARTING POINT TURN, IS A. D. 31, AT THE CRUCIFIXION. Here is an account of tiithly-fiiur Sabbaths in all, in which, Paul
The testimony of Jesus has already overthrown their whole argu- taught in different places, as Jesus did. The last date is, A. n. 54, 23
ment ; we will now present the testimony pf his disciples. -years after the tune where we are told that it was nailed to the cress.
All the Evangelists show the Sabbath, after the crucifixion. " In the Six years after this, he declared to the Romans, that " the law is holy;
end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn towards the first day of the !and 1110 commanelmtnt holy, mid just, and goodi' and that it %NZ a islet-
week,'' the, disciples came and tbend Jesus had arisete—See Mat t. xxviii, /is/4, and that he delighted in the law of Gud, and thanked God through
1, 6. Mark gives the same testimony, chap. NYi, I, 6. Also John xis. eicees, that he himself served the law of God, How t Answer by
31 ; xx, I. Luke is more full. "And that by was the preparation, keeping the whole of God s commandments, which oil' course Measles
and the Sabbath drew on." The wemen that fidlowed prepared spices.] !the seventh day Sabbath. James shows that if' we " effend in, one
and saw the sepulchre, and how his body 'a as laid. " Ahd they re- point," we are " poin ty of all." John says, " For this is the love of
turned, and prepared spices and ointments; end r. at, d the Sal.batii.-Ayl Coil, that we keep his commandments." How many? Ad, all of
according to the mama:aim( nt.—Chap. xxiii, " Now upon the them ! lu chap. ii, 7, he :deters the old one from the begintm,g, which
first day of the week, very early in the morning. they came, . . . we believe is the Sabbath.
bringing the spices which they had prepared." Jesus had ar.semi Let us now see bets this ireporlatit sal:is-et seiner. We I rye E wr,
Chap. xxiv, 1, 6. 1. That this seveteh (ley Sabbath is Inought to sieve more than sid•iy
Now it evasion and perversion of tlee above scripture he allowed to i tines in the New Trstament,
the greatest extent, the moor is still positive and clear that the discipksi 2. That Jests kept ad Ins Father's commandments
ofJesus did rest the Sallath-day, [the sexciith dayl according to the ran-! 3. That he has taught the perptuity ut the Seismal}, through the ten
inandmmt. (titer Jesus was nailed to the cross, taken down and laid in; conenatalments of God.
the sepulchre. And so teauteiously did they observe it, thet they did not 4. That il'61.13 rceogaised the Sabbath L'0, if net 16f.:0 years beyond
allow themselves to go with the spices they had prepared, and perthree hie erucifixion.
the sacred rites of anoiuting, their beloved Master's body until the da_y! 5. That he is still, the Lord of the Sabbath.
was past. O. 'flint the Sabbath was tondo Joe titan—all nate.
Here then, the only text of scripture, which our opponents can; 7, Thet it wan his custom to teach on the Sabbath.
find in the Bible, for proof that the Sabbath was nailed to the cross, fails; 8. That the tour evaugelests show the Sabbath Sillee the crucifixion.
theist ; because the Sabbath was kept after the crucifixion. Therefinei ,l Tiet die comminahnente of God, alsti, are taught six times since,
they are left without a starting point ; equally as much so, es the far-atH 10. That Luke positively proves the keeping of 1110 Sabbath by the
sea. ship-wrecked mariner, with neither masts, rudder, or compass to l disciples. since the ma:Shalom
guide to a place of safety. 11. Tl:nt -Valli s manner, or eastern was, and that he did beech from
Permit me to digress Mr a moment, to ask the Sunday keeper a few; Lives to piece, on the Sabbath of the Lord our God ; that he delighted
questions. First, did God establish the (so called) christian sableith,”1 in, and kept the law of God, ehich includes the
the next day after the disciples of Jesus had ceased to keep the Sablath,; 12. That James, and John also, teach the Sabbath by enforcing all if
that Jesus was the Lord of? You know that it is nut even intimated in' the commendlemits of Chid, whiet»oaliss the Sabbath as binding now as
this connection, VS here so intich proof is given of the true Sabbath, the it fees
day before. Second, did God pervert the order of the, wee4 at the re- 13. Toni there is not a passage in the New Testament that shows a
surrection of Jesus, so as to require a rest for his people, the first day, chatige of the day, or keeping- of the first day of the week for the Sab-
and seventh day also? two days ill pile week, viz, the hessinnites and the bath.
send of it ? Every man of continua sense knows that it is not so. you 14. That both Luko, end Paul, utterly and forever destroy, and take
.see that the disciples did rot regard this duty, as they did rho slay hefirre., 'from our opponeets, the main and only 1 mint which they ever lead to
The story proceeds in Luke xxiv, 0-12. They were running about 'show where the Sabbath was abolished, by proting incontestably that
the city. See verse 13 and onward. Two of the disciples were travel- 'the Sabbath of the Lord our God was kept after they say it Was Milled
ing* seven and a half miles to Emmaus, and Jesus went with them. Did to the cross ; viz : one day, 12, 23, and 20 years atter.
be chide them file breaking the (so called) " chrietian salrhatIi But say* an ohjeetor, is there no other scripture, or point of time, by
Would he he allow himself, or them, to violate it by ?enduing them to go which it eau he ehowe that the Sabbath eves abolished! 'None that
back again that afternoon, if this was the chenged tiny ? Did the disci- have Mend. Something may come up after this ; but thank the laird,
.pies at Jerusalem fasten themselves tip in an tipper chamber tut keep it? there is testimony enough in the above /burteen points, to scatter it to tho
No, they kept the day bethre. thor wind. Tem is the New Tcstainent testimony. 0 Lord, let thy
Aaain : the first day of the week is brought to view seven timesin the blessing accompauy it to the scattered reninant,-Amen.
'New Testament, and not one word, or lisp, of any change, or of its be- About. sixty-hve years after Jesus was nailed tithe cress, God gave hint
beg a Sabbath, or a holy day, then, nor in the future. Paul mentions the a revelation. lie sent his angel and signified it to his servant Min, fOr
first day in two places. the churches. In this message, the subject of the commandments of
1. " lipmathe first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him" God was renewed. John saw that the last end of the church, the tem-
I-himself] &c. What? why, money for charitable purposes. A meet- mud, would he made war with Mr keeping them, and Mr having the tes-
ing, or a Sabbath, is not required gin' individuals to lay money by them- timony of Jesus. 'hap. xli, 17. This is true now, and is developing
selves. more and itert.e, : bat it is impossible for any one to show this war made
2. Paul held a meeting a 1 night, at Troas and broke bread .after mid- on any one 1hr strictly keeping the 1st. 2d, 3d, 5111, 6111, ith, fedi, Ith,
nigrrt. At day light, of this first day of the week, he desolved the and Kitt, commandments. But keeping the tosrth commandment right,
meeting to attend to business, and traveled and sailed all that day.— makes the war. The experience of five years leas taught me this.
See Acts xx. 7-15. This is the only meeting, ever recorded in the In Revelation xiv, John saw, and heard the third angel sit- Mg the last
New Testament to have heen on the first day for religious purposes. nieesage of merry ter God s people. -He was describnig a patient wait-
This, remember, was a night, meeting only, and probably has never been ing company of smuts, who were keeping, the conamuidnients of God,
practiced by any worshiping, assembly to ehristendom. Do, I beseech and the faith ui Jesus. his is. the same class as described in chap. xii.
you, lay aside your prejudices, and fellow the plain, simple scripture as Thank the Lord our Gail, we how this to lie strictly trim; thr we are
-it reads acquainted with a slimily ntirnha of them, alai they undersiabd their
But to the Sabbath again. The great Apostle to the Gentiles, fol- message. They are keeping the Sabi/alit :!,/ Lord our God, Itscizr
lowed the example of his Master, and kept the Sabbath ; yes, the very restoring it as.Pe,ter has shown, in the blotting out time. It is the last
man that our opponents say has proved in Col. ii, 14, that it wits nailed crowning sealing truth for the Church, to pass them through the time of
to the cross. If we adduce scripture argument to prove that Paul kept. trouble Such as never was,,rieht before them. We are not 'obliged to
the Sabbath, then surely you must yield ; tor by their own arguments, labor for an argument for this ; for we are actually keeping thg. Sab-
Paul was the commissioned Apostle to teach the Gentiles that the Sab- bath, as it is taught in the commandment.
bath of the Lord was abolished. See his commission. Acts xiii, 2-4. . We ask then, if this is not 18,19 years this side of the crucifixion.
At Antioch, Paul enters their synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he was This proof that it was not
nailed to the truss,, is iod°Peithilit- of this
called upon to teach. Verses 14, 15. And when the Jews were gone New Testament teaching. -It is this side of it, and' is actually knowl-
out of the synagogue, the GENTILES besought that these words might edge to us.
be preached to them the next Sabbath." " And the next Sabbath day Now pass to chap: xxii, 14. " I34Issed are tliey that do his com-
came almost the whole city together to hear the Word of God." Verses mandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter
42, 44. Here Paul preached two Sabbath days. The last one was crowd- in through the gates into the city." Does the keeping of-nine of the
ed with Gentiles. Says an objector, he preached in the Jewish syna- commandments right, and the fourth wrong, give an entrance there 1
gogues. What of that? Did he not preach on the Sabbath? No, never. What then? Answer, the keeping, or doing all of them
Well, he came to Phillippi, the chief city, but on the Sabbath they right. How shall we do it? Ahs5ker, keep the 'Conti; as God has
went by the " river side," and taught, and prayed. Chap. xvi. 13. -taught, viz ; the seventh day Sabbath, and the oilier nine according to
Then be travelled as far a Thessaloniea; " and Paul as his MANNER your profession, and claim the, blessed promise. Fail in this, and the
WAS, went in unto them, and three sabbath-days reasoned. with them promise is not yours. .
nit of-alto Seripthrsa."—Aets xvii, 2. Paul was keeping the Sabbath,
JOSEPH BAILS.
Fairhaven, Mass., Nov. 18, 1850.