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Updated: June 14, 2025
About like my own school in Kansas the high-school principal would have been an undertaker if he'd had more capital.... Gee! principal and capital might make a real cunning pun out of that if I worked over it a little. I know.... Go to church?" "Why why, yes, of course." "Which god do you favor at present Unitarian or Catholic or Christian Science or Seventh-Day Advent?" "Why, it's the same "
The same question is equally pertinent to all seventh-day keepers. A writer signing himself "American," in the Boston Herald of Dec. 14, 1871, said:
What shall be done to them that curse this day, and would not that the stars should give their light thereon? THIS DAY! after this day was come, God never, that we read of, made mention with delight of the old seventh-day Sabbath more. "The woman which thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree." Gen. 3.
The skipper had argued so warmly that he almost fancied he must have inherited the tenets of the Seventh-day Baptists from his mother while the mate had surprised himself by the warmth of his advocacy of a form of Wesleyanism which would have made the members of that sect open their eyes with horror.
To attend a Monthly Meeting he would leave home on foot the Seventh-day before, with John Bottomley, also a Friend and preacher, and at one time his servant, for some neighboring meeting. He would occupy the evening with social calls, dropping at every house the word of exhortation or comfort. The meeting next day would witness his fervent ministry.
We had a fair number of them, off and on the missionary bark, the Equator, Captain Reid; the Lorelei, Captain Saxe; the Ransom, Captain Mins; the Belle Brandon, Captain Cole; the brigantine Trenton, in ballast, calling in to set her rigging; the cutter Ulysses, with supplies for Washington Island, and the Seventh-Day Adventist schooner Pitcairn, with her mate dying of some kind of sickness.
For this reason, though they were weak in numbers and often an exasperating set of fanatics, they deserve a hearing. Their persecution began about 1677, while these people were chiefly resident in New London and the Seventh-day men were mostly members of the Rogers family. Later, the Rogerines spread to Norwich and Lebanon and their immediate vicinity.
On Saturdays I felt it might be a Jew or a Seventh-Day Adventist, but then it did not work on other days either, so I thought it must be I. W. W., "I Won't Work" as they are called in Australia.
I understood the effort thee was making, and I think Emily did. A good conscience ought to make thee sleep well." I laughed very bitterly as I said, "My conscience is gutta-percha to- night, through and through, but please say no more, or I'll have to shock you again. I'll be in a better mood to-morrow." "Well, good-night. Thee'll excuse a housekeeper on Seventh-day evening.
He left the camp sunk in the somnolence of its seventh-day rest, Susan not to be seen anywhere, Leff asleep under the wagon, the doctor writing his diary in the shade of the cotton-woods, and Daddy John lying on the grass among the whiteness of the week's wash.
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