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Principle and Expediency

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 23.

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Principle and Expediency

THE obligation to obey a divine command does not rest very heavily upon the minds of some who claim to be disciples of the Lord. The following paragraph from the Christian Endeavor World illustrates this:—
The Jews will be indeed unwise if they push the bill which is before the New York legislature permitting those whose religion requires them to observe another day than Sunday to work on that day. The best interests of the Jew would lead him to adopt the sabbath of the Christian majority, and not persist in a harmful isolation.
With us the Sabbath of the Lord takes precedence over “the sabbath of the Christian majority.”