The Blind leading the Blind
I have seen how the blind guides were laboring to make souls
as blind as themselves, and they little realize what is coming upon
them. They are exalting themselves against the truth, and as the truth
triumphs, many who have looked on those teachers as men of God,
and have looked to them for light, are troubled. They inquire of these
leaders relative to the Sabbath, who, 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
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the Lord, and observe another day than that sanctified and hallowed
by Jehovah. And if they were driven off from one position they would
taken an opposite one, even a position that they had but just before
condemned as unsound.
But God’s people are coming into the unity of the faith, and 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 embrace
it still, another comes forward to overthrow it. But in presenting his
views to get round 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 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 the hope that
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