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far as I have leanifd, Mr. Ford is not a 

 member of any ohurfli. I hope I am mis- 

 taken about this; but the general impression 

 seems to be that he is not connected with 

 any body of Christian people. And yet we 

 find him doing' a reform work among people 

 of every nation of the world that perhaps 

 has never before been paralleled. He loves 

 his fellow-men. He has been all his life 

 untiring in striving to educate and uplift 

 them. In connection with that gTeat en- 

 terprise he has sent doctors and trained 

 nurses into the homes of his workmen ; he 

 has taught the mothers how to care better 

 for their children : he lias looked after their 

 sanitary surroundings, and in short he has 

 been doing a sort of missionary work per- 

 haps never before undertaken by any man 

 in any organization. What shall we say? 

 The verses I have given from that 9th chap- 

 ter of Luke seem to me to hit the matter 

 exactly. There are many strange things in 

 this world of ours. Altho Mr. Ford may 

 not be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, 

 he has never, so far as I know, spoken 

 .against him; and the Master said, as I 

 understand it, "Forbid him not;" and, 

 again, " He that is not against us is on our 

 part." My opinion is that Mr. Ford has 

 been and is even now laying up treasures in 

 heaven as ireJl as here on earth, and per- 

 haps he does not know it. Again, I am 

 reminded of the passage where the people 

 say, " Lord, when say we thee a hungered, 

 or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, 

 or in prison, and ministered unto thee? " 

 The answer was, as you may recall, "Verily, 

 I say unto ynu. Inasmuch as ye have done 

 it unto one cf tlie least of these my brethren 

 ye have done it unto me." 



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HAVING SUNDAY ON SATURDAY; SOMETHING 

 ABOUT TEMPERANCE WORK. 



On page 337 of our issue for May 1 I 

 suggested some reasons why people all over 

 the world could not have the days of the 

 week at the same period of time wherever 

 they were; and in reply to what I said, a 

 good lady writes as follows: 



"We take Gleanixgs and enjoy it very imicTi ; also 

 our bees. [ read every word of your paper, espe- 

 cially Our Homes, etc. I notice you often write un- 

 der the hendin?, " God's Kingdom Coming." It is 

 coming, but not in the way many think. 



My dear sir, you place yourself in the class spok- 

 en of in E/okiel 34, when you give nearly a column 

 of your bee journal as to which day is Sunday. If 

 you will go to a standard cyclopedia you can get the 

 origin of Sunday. Seventh-day Adventists do not 

 try to liavo Sunday on Saturday. Your argument is 

 very old. I am an old v-o-^i-m, jind T have heard it 

 before; but it is not as old as (/of/'.s low jjhen at 



creation, reiterated at Sinai, and kept by Christ and 

 his apostles for nearly 400 years. 



I have been blessed by obeying God rather than 

 man-made laws regarding Sunday, and I am not 

 alone. God is calling out a little flock, without spot 

 or wrinkle, to receive him at his coming. It is my 

 greatest desire to be one of that little company. If 

 I were where the day of the week was disputed / 

 would keep the day before the one decided upon as 

 Sunday by the majority — always the sixth day from 

 Sunday. 



The Temperance Aninuial, gotten out by the 

 Seventh-day Adventists, publishers, got the credit for 

 saving Maine at the last election. Thousands of 

 these are used by all classes of temperance workers. 

 I send you a copy, also copies of other papers at 

 iiand, that you may see Seventh-day Adventists are 

 trying to do their share in temperance work. I have 

 marked the margin at the top of each copy, that 

 it may save your time. I enjoy your talks on sim- 

 ple living, for Seventh-day Adventists lead the sim- 

 ple life. 



Do you know that the renowned D. L. Moody 

 accepted God's law regarding the sabbath at the 

 last ? 



May God help you is the prayer of an humble 

 reader. Mrs. B. L. Perry. 



Nevis, Minn., May 18. 



In the article referred to, I said I had 

 had but one reply to my suggestion that we 

 call Monday the first day of the week so as 

 to geA rid of the inconvenience of having 

 different days for Sunday. The good lady 

 who writes the above gives us a little more 

 light on the subject if I \inderstand it. She 

 says wherever there is a dispute as to which 

 day should be Sunday, she would kee]) the 

 day before the day agreed on by the major- 

 ity.* At first I was inclined to think this 

 indicated a contrary spirit, or a disposition 

 to disagi'ee or stand out against what the 

 majority might agree on ; but in praying 

 for a little more charity for a lot of good 

 people, I was led to look at it in this way: 

 These people may honestly believe that God 

 calls on them, and perhaps all of us, to 

 remember and respect (as a day of rest) 

 what is ordinarily called the seventh day 

 instead of what pretty nearly the whole 

 wide world calls Sunday. Let me remark 

 right here that near our Florida home one 

 bright Sunday morning, when everybody 

 was on the way to church, I saw one neigh- 

 bor who Avas painting his fence fronting the 

 street. As he was a new comer the question 

 came up, " Is this man particularly anxious 

 that everybody may know that he has no 



* t hope our Advent friends will not feel hurt 

 when I say that since the above was in print I saw 

 an account somewhere of a certain Scotchman who 

 was ahva.ws pulling against the good people of his 

 chui'ch. On one occasion a strong effort was made 

 to have a particular motion declared unanimous, but 

 the Scotchman stood out as usual: and (hen they 

 tr'od to have him unite with .the rest so that they 

 m'lrbt JTO on with their work. But he became so 

 stirred up that he arose and said, " Brethren, I want 

 you to understand that, so long as / am a member 

 of this church, there is never going to be anything 

 ' unanimous.' " 



