THAT PERPLEXING BLANK

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 2

THAT PERPLEXING BLANK.

The Signs of the Times of Dec. 4, 1879, calls attention to the fact that all no-Sabbath teachers agree exactly in the enunciation of their theories to the extent of the following four words: “The Sabbath was abolished,”—but then comes a long and perplexing blank as to the other questions which immediately follow; namely, when? how? and by whom? “The Sabbath was abolished”—all agree so far; but to the question, when? a multitude of answers are given. How? more difference still. By whom? still more confusion. So far as to say that the Sabbath was abolished, they all run together; on the other questions necessary to the complete presentation of the idea, they spread out like a fan.

In contrast with this, look at Sabbath arguments from Maine to Oregon, in America, Europe, and Africa; a unit from beginning to end. Here is the stamp of divinity. This is one of the great facts which the truth presents as its credentials.

When will our opponents agree on some line of argument? We have been calling for this for years. We call still. Until they do this, would it not be more consistent for them to confine their efforts to the conversion of each other. And until this is accomplished, can they with any very good grace attack a system all the adherents of which see eye to eye?