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THERE 1S NO COMMANDMENT
A FEW days ago I read a copy of the
book, ‘“Seventh-dayism X-rayed,” by Dr.
Orval Leland Kelley, who says that he was
once a Seventh-day Adventist. Thomas
A. Adams, the Church of Christ evangel-
ist who wrote the preface to the work,
describes (on page 9) Dr. Kelley as a
deacon in the Prescott, Arizona, Church
of Christ. The doctor speaks highly of the
morality of Seventh-day Adventists:
“Tne time I spent with the Adventists
is now a pleasant memory, for I found
a sincere and devoted, although sadly
mistaken people. They are all tithers,
giving a tenth of their income to the sup-
port of the ministers alone, and additional
contributions for church expenses and
missiouiary work. They have a splendid
line of well-written books and pamphlets
on their belief which they are zealous in
distributing. The world has no right to
laugh at them, for they are honest in
their belief, and, as a people, live up to
that belief to the best of their ability.
Angels could do no more, and, instead of
standing idly by and poking fun at them,
we would do well to emulate some of their
virtues, and attempt to lead them out
from the error of Adventism.”—*“Seventh-
dayism X-rayed,” p. 72,
The most notable thing about Dr.
Kelley’s book is that, after all this
Sunday-keeper and member of the
Church of Christ has to say against the
observance of God’s holy day, for “the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God” (Exodus 20: 8-11) and ‘the
Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath
day” (Matthew 12: 8), he makes these
striking statements about Sunday:
“Now, there is no commandment in
the New Testament to observe Sunday
as a day of rest.” —Idem, p. 98.
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“A careful study of history will show
that the early Christians did not observe
Sunday as a day of rest, merely a day of
worship, and the first laws making Sun-
day a rest-day were by Constantine in
the fourth century A. D.”’—Idem, p. 99.
Thus he frankly tells us in the clearest
of language that Sunday observance
originally was not established by a com-
mandment of God, and that the day was
not even one of rest at first. In this, then,
the Seventh-day Adventists are right.
THINK BEFORE YOU EAT
SOMETHING to think about was
handed out by Dr. J. A. Barger, in-
spector in charge of the United States
Bureau of Animal Husbandry, in Des
Moines, Iowa, in August. He declared
that American farmers lose more than
$400,000,000 a year as a result of livestock
diseases. Grubs alone damaged about
309, of the cattle hides sold in the United
States from December to April, and
affected more than 10,000,000 pounds of
beef last year.
Bad news for the pig eaters is included
in Dr. Barger’s report, which says of
swine: “At some slaughtering centers,
as high as 189 of the hogs were retained
last year because of swine tuberculosis of
avian origin. The average is about 109).
In areas of swine erysipelas infection,
approximately four per cent of non-
vaccinated swine die from erysipelas and
about seven per cent become crippled.”
— The Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal,
August 23, 1944.
He also said that careless and improper
handling causes an estimated loss of
75,440,000 pounds of meat annually.
Certainly the Creator was very wise in
arranging for man a vegetarian diet in
the beginning. (Genesis 1:29; 3:18.)
This is a general view of the conference room at
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D. C., as the
initial session of the International Security talks
got under way on August 21. Mr. Cordell Hull,
United States Secretary of State, is shown pre-
siding.
Carnivorous human beings eat second-
hand or third-hand food when they co
sume flesh meat, for the food of th
animal kingdom comes directly or in-
directly from plants. A safer and saner
health measure it is to learn to prepare
and use for food vegetable substitutes
instead of animal meat.
A TIP T0 FLIERS AND T0 YOU
IN ITS section entitled ‘“Medicine,’}
Newsweek of September 18, 1944, tells
how science is “winning its fight to save
fliers from high-altitude dangers.” And
in its report, the following statement is of
special significance:
“Three Harvard scientists reported
that night fliers who smoked one cigarette
immediately before or during a hop
suffered loss of vision necessary for
safety. Apparently the sight loss was
caused by carbon monoxide from the
tip of the burning cigarette, which pre-
vented normal absorption of oxygen.
Smoking of three cigarettes brought on
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December, 1944
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