LETTER FROM MISSOURI by Wilberforce Jones; Laura Jones

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 13, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 20

LETTER FROM MISSOURI.

By Wilberforce Jones; Laura Jones

A LITTLE tract published by the Seventh-day Adventists, which has recently been handed to us, has been the means in the hand of God of awakening us to a newness of life.

We came to these conclusions because Christ says: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.” Matt. 5: 17, 18. Now it cannot be claimed that all things spoken by the prophets have been fulfilled. In Mal. 4: 1–3, we read: “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up,” etc. All will concede that this and many other prophecies have never been fulfilled; hence the law must still stand, and “whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” James 2: 10.

Being thus convinced that the law has not been changed, and that the first-day Sabbath is but a tradition of men, we are trying to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. We are almost alone, there being but one family of Seventh-day Adventists in this part of the country. We ask for the prayers of all those who love Christ’s appearing. WILBERFORCE AND LAURA JONES.