e destruction of
Jerusalem, nearly forty years after the crucifixion? Matt. xxiv: 20. The
Gentiles certainly were embraced in the covenant by this time! Why was
it Paul's manner always to preach on the seventh day Sabbath to Jews and
Gentiles?

By what authority do you call the seventh day Sabbath, the Jewish
Sabbath? The bible says it is the Sabbath of the _Lord our God_! And
Jesus said that he was the 'Lord of the Sabbath day.' He moreover told
the Jews that the Sabbath was made for MAN! Where do you draw the
distinguishing line, to show which is and which is not MAN between the
_natural seed of Abraham_ and the Gentiles? "Is he the God of the Jews
only? Is he not also of the [45]Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also!"
Then Paul says 'there is no difference,' and that 'there is no respect
of persons with God.' Is it not clear, then, that the Sabbath was made
for Adam and his posterity, the whole family of _man_? How very fearful
you are that God's people should keep the bible Sabbath! You say, 'let
us be cautious, lest we disinherit ourselves by seeking the inheritance
under the wrong covenant.' Your meaning is, not to seek to keep the
Sabbath covenant, but the one made to Abraham. If you can tell us what
precept there is in the Abrahamic covenant that we must now keep to be
_saved_, that is not embraced in the one given at Mount Sinai, then we
will endeavor to keep that too, with the Sabbath of the Lord our God. If
the Sabbath, as you say, is abolished, why do you, JOSEPH MARSH,
continue to call the first day of the week the Sabbath. See V. T., 15th
July. If you profess to utter the VOICE OF TRUTH from the bible, do be
consistent, and also willing that _other papers_, besides yours and the
Advent Herald, should give the present truth to the flock of God. I say
let it go with lightning speed, every way, as does the political news by
the electric telegraph. If the whole law and the prophets hang on the
commandments, and by keeping them we enter into life, how will you, or
I, enter in if we do not 'keep the commandments.' See Exod. xvi: 28-30.
Jesus says, "therefore whosoever shall break one of these least
commandments and shall teach men so, shall be called the least in the
kingdom," &c. "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole
duty of man." Amen!

In the xxxi. ch. of Exod., God says, "Wherefore the children of ISRAEL
shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their
generations for a _p