The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

the Committee, upon both Houses of Congress, and
upon the President of the United States who
approved this law. And you yourself very wisely
took that last consideration entirely out from before
the Committee when you stated that this was not
the place to argue that question. Therefore we
dismiss it without saying a single word.
Mr. T. A. Fernley, in his speech, told the
Committee that there was no authority for
reconsidering the question because there was no
new evidence presented, that there was not a single
new reason before the Committee for opening the
Fair on Sunday. And he said that the only possible
ground upon which you can reconsider that
question is its unconstitutionality. So that
confirmed the position that he had refused to hear
from us so that everything they objected to from us
they got from somebody else. They went on--not
with heavenly arguments by any means--but they
proposed to consider heavenly things, and they
reined the Committee up before death and the
Judgment, stating that when they came to die it
would be a consolation to them to know that they
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