hundred years ago. What audacity! Has the whole Christian church been wrong for the past nineteen centuries, and only the Seventh-Day Adventists right? Does Mrs. White know more than Paul, the Church fathers, and all the Christian theologians of the last two thousand years? Impossible! “After keeping the Seventh Day,” writes D. M. Canright, “ for twenty- eight years; after having persuaded more than a thousand others to keep it; after having read my Bible through, verse by verse, more than twenty times; after having scruti nized to the best of my ability every text, line and word in the whole Bible having the remotest bearing upon the Sabbath question; after having looked up all these, both in the original and in many translations; after having searched in lexicons, concordances, commentaries and dictionaries; after having read armfuls of books on both sides of the question; after having read every line of all the early church fathers upon this point; after having written several works in favour of the Seventh Day, which were satisfactory to my brethren; after having debated the question more than a dozen times; after seeing the fruits of keeping it, and after weighing all the evidence in the fear of God, and of the judgment day, I am fully settled in my own mind and conscience that the evidence is against the keeping of the Seventh Day.” Nevertheless Hezekiah had his an swer, as we shall always have ours if we tarry when God says so, and use the waiting time in accordance with His holy will. BUT when the time of tarrying is over, the time for action must also be used with equal purpose. May God never have occasion to say to us, as He did to Moses, “Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go for ward” (Ex. 14:15). When the purpose o f God’s tarrying time is fulfilled; when His will is made known; when you are sure that His Holy Spirit is with you, and that His strength is yours to command, clear yourself of all encumbrances “because the king’s business . . . [requireth] haste” (1 Sam. 21:8). T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S TARRY HERE AND WATCH (Continued from Page H ) far from sufficient. How often are we tempted to move without God; with out waiting for His will, and for His strength!
We think often of our happy days at Biola and remember the school in prayer. May the Lord continue to bless your ministry, and may there be many young people willing to en dure hardness, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ in the out-of-the-way places of this earth, where there’s no praise, no flourishing church, no com forts—only bugs, heat and hard work! It’s wonderful when you are in His perfect will! Thank you again for this contribu tion to our work. You may be sure it will be used prayerfully for the distribution of Scripture among the Manipuris. Serving Christ in Assam, India, Fred and Dorothy Waldock Matt. 28:20b. Dorothy graduated in ’46 from Christian Education course, and in ’47 from School o f Missionary Medicine course; Fred also graduated from the latter course in ’48. Fourth, in First Corinthians 16:2 the first day is mentioned as a day for offerings. Hence the entire Christian Church has always recognized Sunday as the Lord’s Day. On the Sabbath no burden could be carried (Jer. 17:21); no fire kindled (Ex. 35:3), and no cooking done (Ex. 16:23). This could only apply locally in a land where the people could live without heat. It would be impossible in the Arctic. The penalty for doing these things which broke the Sabbath, was death (Num. 15). Who keeps it today? Certainly not the Seventh-Day Adventists. There can be no halfway measure or the Sabbath is broken after all. The Sabbath was given to one nation only, namely Israel. No Gentile was ever commanded to keep it. According to the Epistle of Barna bas (100 A.D.), Ignatius (107 A.D.), Martyr (145 A.D.), Irenaeus (155 A.D.), etc. Christians repudiated the seventh day and recognized the first day, and that long before there was a Pope. Here are their statements: “We keep the eighth day. No longer . . . the Sabbath, but . . . the Lord’s Day. On the day called Sunday all gather. Sunday is the day . . . because it is the first day of the week. On the Lord’s Day, assemble.” That practice was never changed until a woman, Mrs. Ellen G. White, and her followers, the Seventh-Day Adventists, changed it less than a SUNDAY OR SATURDAY ( Continued from Page 9)
A Letter from
B I O L A N S I N I N D I A
Makunda, Hatikhira P. O. Cachar District, Assam, India November 5, 1950
Dear Dr. Talbot, Greetings from the center of hea thenism in Assam. We surely were sor ry you didn’t get to come to our sta tion when you were in India. You wouldn’t have seen a beautiful com pound or a lovely bungalow—not even a church building, for we’ve just be gun. The only thing we can boast about is the beautiful countryside. The people in the villages around, us are dirty, poor and ragged. It’s a treat to come to the larger towns once in a while to see some of the beautifully dressed Bengalis. But we look upon our work as an opportunity —these people need Christ and His salvation. There are hundreds of vil lages all around our compound and the people have never heard the gos pel, but are willing to listen and to read the Bible with us. We had a real cause for rejoicing at our Field Council meeting last month. The whole Bible was trans lated into Manipuri— the tribe we are working among—and the com pleted copies were just off the press. So we want to take this opportunity to thank you for the check for $50.00 received, which will go into our Scrip ture fund for making these Bibles available to those who show a real interest in reading God’s Word. Then too, our senior missionaries are at present working on tracts and Bible stories for use in village work. This money will greatly help in getting them completed. Page Twenty-two
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