“THE TRUE SABBATH.”

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5730, 27 October 1905, Page 6

“THE TRUE SABBATH.”

(From Onr Special Correspondent.) LONDON, September 1.1. If you are a Seventh Day Adventist, the best place to live, from the point of view of worldly expediency, is New Zealand. So T gather from the experience of Mr David Nield, of Wellington, who has just returned to London after spending some nine years in the Australasian colonies. Air Nield was formerly connected with the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, as their ehiil missionary, in London docks, “On* business and conscientious grounds." he separated from the mission, and established a church, named the Church of God, at Holloway, in 1890. One day he made a momentous discovery. “(Jn discovering,” says Mr Nield, ‘‘that a day was dropped out of the reckoning of days during the voyage from ’Frisco to Auckland, without Bible or Divine authority, I concluded that by the sun’s rule across the Pacific Ocean, without man’s interruption, the Seventh Day Sabbath in New Zealand would came on the day called Sunday. The more I studied and thought upon this subject, the more I was impressed with the obligation of going to New Zealand to preach through its length and breadth (which I have done) that the so-called Sunday was really Saturday, or the Bible Sabbath. I left London in the year 1896, and since then I have covered not only New Zealand. but every State of tiie Commonwealth, holding* open-air meetings to advocate the observance of the Bible Sabbath on Sunday, and not on the day called Saturday. Many Jews and Seventh Day Adventists have acknowledged their mistake in observing the sixth day instead of tho seventh. ‘‘Many persons have taken advantage of this mistake in the count of the days of the w.eek, and have gone to New Zealand. One man I may mention particularly. He lost one day every week in order to keep the Sabbath, in addition to Sunday, Some years ago he, with his family, removed to New Zealand, and he is now able to observe the Bible Sabbath, the same day as he kept in 'England as tiie sun brings it to New Zealand, to earn twice as much money, and live in a much more comfortable way. There are reported to bo 1331 persons who observe Saturday in England the Sabbath of the Lord. There are 29 churches, 18 ministers, and 17 on trial, 28 Bible workers, and IDS canvassers, all at work spreading the fact that Saturday is tho day to be kept in England. They have also a circulation of 21,000 copies weekly of their paper, 3000 papers sold every Sunday in London. They nlso report 90 students in their college, who are being trained to enter into tho work. I trust that some at least of these perrons may see the advantage of taking up New Zealand as a place of residence, for there the true Biblo Sabbath can be kept on the day called Sunday without interfering much with their business calling or professions.

Mr Nield left Wellington last January, and travelled via Australia, Canada and the United States, holding many meetings eu route. He landed in Liverpool on Juno 29th, and reached London last Monday, with the intention of conducting a mission in the metropolis, and visiting Cornwall and Paris, before setting sail for New Zealand by the Athenio on November 16th. Mr Nield combines business with his mission-work. He has secured various agencies on his journey, and intends to exhibit on behalf of an English manufacturing firm at the Christchurch Exhibition next year. Mr Nield informs me that "quite a number of people’’ are going to accom. pany him back to New Zealand, and that there are many more who would like to go.”