WHY NOT DISCOVERED BEFORE?
By Roswell F. Cottrell
It is often asked, If these things are so, why has it not been discovered before? If the seventh day is the only weekly Sabbath of the Bible, and the Man of Sin, the Roman Papacy, is the author of the change, why have not learned Protestants found it out before? I will ask you one question, and answer me, and that may give us the clue to yours. Why are not you and thousands of others willing to keep the Sabbath, now that you have found it out? Oh! it is a cross, and almost the whole Christian world are against it. Just so it has been for centuries in the past. Thousands have seen the want of Bible proof for the first-day Sabbath, and have been more or less guilty for not stepping out upon it, and taking up the cross; but they quieted their consciences in one way or another, thinking perhaps that so many good and learned Christians could not all be wrong; that if these things were so, it would have been discovered before; our learned ministers ought to know, &c. God has suffered evil to exist, the Papacy to bear rule, and persecute his people, and pervert his law; and the reason it has not been discovered before, is the slowness of man to engage in the work of reform of popular errors. But God has prepared the way by giving the Bible to the world in their different languages, and by his Spirit led a people to proclaim a message which he had promised in his word, to restore the truth to his people preparatory to the second advent. Now is just the time which he has chosen for his people to discover these great truths. Now, my friend, do not stand questioning why these sacred truths have been so long hidden, but readily and gladly embrace the light, now that it has come.