p. 293 | MORE INCONSISTENCY by H. E. Robinson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, May 12, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 19

MORE INCONSISTENCY.

By H. E. Robinson

THE various contradictory assertions made and positions taken by the leaders of the National Reform Association, make it not a little perplexing to know just what they mean by what they say.

1. How can this movement be the dawn of the millennium, the era of peace, when they acknowledge that it opens an “irrepressible conflict,” and a reign of terror is now impending?

2. How can this be called a “Christian nation,” when they tell us that “lawlessness is so prevalent and fast increasing”?

3. How is it that they will not interfere with the rights of any, when they tell us that it is “impossible to proceed without touching the question of religion”?

4. Why do they propose to use force, if necessary, to secure the nation’s allegiance to Christ, when he has said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight”?

5. Why are they moved with such a vehement desire to enforce Sunday observance, which God has never commanded?

6. Why do they studiously avoid reading that part of the commandment which says, “The seventh day is the Sabbath,” when they appeal to it to show the “national sin of Sabbath-breaking”?

7. Why do they desire the Bible to be recognized as the source of ultimate appeal, while they disregard its plainest precepts?

8. Why do they make the commandments of God of none effect by their tradition?

Must we not conclude that the only safe way is given by the Saviour? “All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.” H. E. ROBINSON.