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Changing the Jewish Sabbath
By Editor
An Eastern paper says: "The Jews are talking of changing their Sabbath to our Sabbath, beginning with the year 1900." We do not see how this thing can be done; the Jews might easily abandon the ancient Sabbath and go to keeping another day; but to change "their Sabbath"—by which we suppose is meant the seventh day, "the Sabbath of the Lord"—to "our Sabbath"—which, we take it, means Sunday—is just as impossible as to change Monday to Thursday, or 12 o'clock noon to 12 o'clock midnight. God has spoken, and said, "The seventh day is the Sabbath," and though "hand join in hand," and both Jew and Papist think to change the times and laws of the Most High, all his commandments will still be sure, they will stand fast forever and ever.
Advancement in Spiritualism
By Editor
THE World's Advance-Thought thus patronizingly notices the progress of a prominent "divine:"—
"The Christian Union, edited by the Rev. Lyman Abbott, repudiates the doctrine of the resurrection of the body as 'inconsistent with Scripture, antagonistic to science, and a product of a Pagan and materialistic habit of thought.' If the Reverend Abbott would get hold of a file of the paper edited by Andrew Jackson Davis twenty-five or thirty years ago, he could pick up a good many such views that were held by the last generation of spiritual Spiritualists, and that the spiritual Spiritualists of the present consider too well established to be live subjects for discussion."
It must be encouraging to "the leaders of Christian thought" to be assured by the very "spiritual Spiritualists" that they are making advancement in the spiritualness of Spiritualism.
Chinese Gambling Arrests
By Editor
It is stated that there were 3,247 arrests for gambling in Los Angeles last year, but that only twenty-two of the arrests were of white men. The others, we suppose, were Chinamen. It is touching to see the tender regard which the California policeman has for the morals of the benighted heathen who are among us. No one supposes for a moment that the number of Chinese gamblers exceeds the number of white men who indulge in the same vice; and the only reason we can give why the police do not arrest the white men as well as the Chinamen, is that they think the former are beyond reformation. Heathenism is not dependent on race or color, and we very much doubt if the Asiatic heathen could give any instruction in vice to those who are of American or European birth.
False Interpretations of Prophecy
By Editor
WHEN Peter speaks of the manner in which the prophecies were given, he says: "But there were false prophets also among the people." Wherever you find anything of value, you will find a counterfeit. Those false prophets arose for the purpose of bringing the true prophets into disrepute. In like manner we might expect that when prophecies are interpreted by the word of God, there will be false and absurd interpretations, calculated to make sensible people disgusted, so that they will resolve to have nothing to do with any interpretations of prophecy. There are some professed Adventist journals which persist in setting a time for the coming of the Lord, although the Lord said, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man." They have been at this work for years, and have set no less than a score of different times for the Lord to come. In order to make their computation seem to be correct, they manufacture history without any regard to fact. The time now fixed by these pseudo-Adventists is 1889. We earnestly protest against such tampering with prophecy and history; its effect is only to cause people to disbelieve that the Lord is coming at all. It is enough for us to know that the coming of the Lord is near, "even at the doors." We are not required to understand the things which God has not revealed.
Papal Consistory Postponed
The Papal Consistory has been postponed till the early part of March, when the new foreign cardinals will receive their hats.