Sunday Labor by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1866

Sunday Labor.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Some persons who think they are very pious, have a great horror for Sunday labor, or work on the first day of the week. They say that they feel very bad to see seventh-day people at work on the first-day. As for themselves working on that day, why, their tender consciences revolt at the idea!

There is one fact to which I would like to call the attention of such persons, as they may have overlooked it. It is this, The first thing recorded in the Bible is work on the first day of the week! Who performed that labor? Some wicked person? No; but God himself! See Gen. i, 1-5. God kept the seventh day, blessed it, and commanded us to keep it; yet these persons can work on that day without any remorse of conscience. It seems as though these facts ought to convince them that their tender (?) consciences are not formed by the teachings of the Bible, but are from some other source. D. M. CANRIGHT.

Augusta, Me.