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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 17, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 8.

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THE GENTILE SABBATH.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Says one, “If you will show me one text where the Gentiles are required to keep the seventh-day Sabbath, I will keep it.” Very well; we think that there are many such texts, but will simply give the one now. It may be found in Isa. lvi. Verse 1 says: “Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.” This is a prophecy pointing to the last days, as we may see by comparing this with other scriptures. When will the Lord’s salvation come? Ans. At the second coming of Christ. Heb. ix, 28: “Unto them that look for him [Christ] shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” Peter says we are kept “through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Pet. i, 5. When Jesus comes he will bring salvation to his people; hence, when the Lord says in Isa. lvi, “my salvation is near to come,” he points down to the last days. What shall happen then? “Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.” We cannot “lay hold on” what we already have; hence, here is a reformation, a laying hold on the Sabbath, foretold. But do the Gentiles, the strangers, have any part in this? Listen further: “Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, the Lord hath utterly separated me from his people. . . . Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant [the ten commandments, Deut. iv, 13], even them will I bring to my holy mountain,” &c. The strangers are the Gentiles. Eph. ii, 11, 12. Here, then, is a blessing promised on the Gentiles who shall take hold of God’s Sabbath to keep it. Will they do it?
D. M. CANRIGHT.
Sigourney, July 16.