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The Blind Leading the Blind
I have seen how the blind guides were laboring to make souls
as blind as themselves, little realizing what is coming upon them.
They are exalting themselves against the truth, and as it triumphs,
many who have looked on these teachers as men of God and have
looked to them for light, are troubled. They inquire of these leaders
relative to the Sabbath, and they, with the object of getting rid of
the fourth commandment, will answer them thereto. I saw that real
honesty was not regarded in taking the many positions that were
taken against the Sabbath. The main object is to get around the
Sabbath of the Lord and observe another day than that sanctified
and hallowed by Jehovah. If they are driven from one position, they
take an opposite one, even a position that they had but just before
condemned as unsound.
God’s people are coming into the unity of the faith. Those
who observe the Sabbath of the Bible are united in their views of
Bible truth. But those who oppose the Sabbath among the Advent
people are disunited and strangely divided. One comes forward in
opposition to the Sabbath and declares it to be thus and so, and at the
conclusion calls it settled. But as his effort does not put the question
to rest, and as the Sabbath cause progresses and the children of the
Lord still embrace it, another comes forward to overthrow it. But
in presenting his views to get around the Sabbath, he entirely tears
down the arguments of him who made the first effort against the
truth, and presents a theory as opposite to his as to ours. So with the
third and the fourth; but none of them will have it as it stands in the
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Word of God: “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.”
Such, I saw, have the carnal mind, therefore are not subject to
the holy law of God. They are not agreed among themselves, yet
labor hard with their inferences to wrest the Scriptures to make a
breach in God’s law, to change, abolish, or do anything with the
fourth commandment rather than to observe it. They wish to silence
the flock upon this question; therefore they get up something with
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