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but little idea of what he was trying to say. One statement which I did
understand, however, was to the effect that Christ, instead of teaching
the Sabbath, broke it. To this I felt that I must respond. I said: “I
hope our brother will not place himself on the side of the Pharisees in
their accusations against Christ; for if their charge of Sabbath-breaking
could have been sustained against him, they would not have been under
the necessity of hiring false witnesses to testify against him.” At this
he became very much enraged, and charged me with calling him a
Pharisee. This, however, was corrected by several persons present, and
he said, “I beg pardon.”
When I saw that I could have no opportunity to finish my discourse,
or to answer his question as fully as I would have liked, I told the people
that I would be obliged to defer any further answer till some future
time, and that I would then make it by writing, as he was not prepared
to listen to anything I might say. This I did soon after in an article
entitled, “Walking in the Light,” published in Les Signes des Temps. I
also sent him an invitation to come and talk the matter over with me,
that we might see what is truth. But he declined to do so.