Remembering Former Days in Adventism
By Editor
In this issue will be found the first of a series of articles by Elder J. O. Corliss, in which he will call to remembrance the former days in this advent movement. We are sure that these articles will be of special interest both to those who have been long in this way and also to those who have recently come to a knowledge of the truth. Moses said to Israel, “Thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years,” and it is equally important that this people should not forget those marked providences which have attended this work from its beginning. These articles ought to be read by every Seventh-day Adventist family, to say nothing of the other important matter in the paper, and we shall be glad of the help of the friends of the REVIEW in extending its circulation. In a recent editorial on “The Sunday Rest Question,” the Washington Post says: “Even according to the teachings of the Bible, the earlier command not to labor on the seventh day was modified by Christ himself in the well-known incident of the ass that fell into the pit on Sunday.” (Italics ours.) This illustrates how intelligent people become hopelessly mixed in trying to apply the Sabbath command to Sunday. Christ did not modify the Sabbath law in the least, and furthermore no modification was required in order to permit labor on Sunday, as Sunday and the Sabbath were two distinct days. Sunday is the first day of the week. The Sabbath was and is the seventh day of the week. There is no need that any one should fall into the pit of inconsistency, if he will remember these simple facts.