Which Day Is the Sabbath?
By G. B. T.
THIS is a question over which there is much discussion. The people in the pews are giving it study, and are appealing to pastors for light as to the Scriptural warrant for observing a different day from the one Jesus observed. Just why His example in this matter should be set aside is not clear to them. The practise of the people, or the opinions of scholars, are not conclusive on the question. In religious matters, the majority are usually wrong. The only source of infallible appeal on this question is the Scriptures of truth. “What says the Bible, the blessed Bible?
This should my only question be.
Teachings of men so often mislead us!
What says the book of God to me?” Appealing for light to the rock of Scripture, we read: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Ex. 20: 8-11. There are some human laws on the statute-books about keeping a day, but this is the only divine Sabbath law in existence. Written with the finger of God, and handed down amid the thunders of Sinai, in glory and majesty unparalleled since the fall of man, God settles the Sabbath controversy by declaring that the seventh day is the Sabbath. Nowhere in all the canon of Scripture has this divine Sabbath law been changed or abrogated. The seventh day, therefore—not Sunday—is the Sabbath. Its claims are binding upon all men, in all ages, and in all lands; and in the keeping of God's commandments there is great reward.
G. B. T.