p. 500 | Ukiah and Healdsburg by William M. Healey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 9, 1882

Ukiah and Healdsburg.

By William M. Healey

I SPENT Sabbath and Sunday, Oct. 21 and 22, at Ukiah. Since the tent-meetings here of Elders Rice, Briggs, and Scott, politicians and others have agitated the Sabbath question, which has awakened some interest in that issue. While here I listened to two ministers who denounced the ten commandments in bitter terms. One of them, a Baptist, said that it was impossible for any one to keep that law, and therefore God gave his son to keep it and relieve us from the curse of having it hang over us and make demands upon us which we are not able to meet. So of course we were left to suppose that he felt obliged to lie, steal, swear, break the Sabbath, etc.; but as Christ did none of these things, but kept the law for him, therefore he expects to be saved. This charges God with having made a mistake in giving the law, requiring more than man could perform, and in order to remedy this mistake he gave his only Son, who died for the blunder of God in giving a law that could not be kept.

We reviewed some of the positions taken by these men, and returned to Healdsburg, where we spent the following Sabbath, and baptized two persons who have recently commenced the observance of God's law. The church here is getting quite large, and our place of meeting is almost too small to accommodate them all.

Oakland, Nov. 2, 1882. W. M. HEALEY.