Untitled article by R. F. COTTRELL.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 27, 1867

SERVING GOD EVERY DAY.

By R. F. COTTRELL.

Among the sophisms by which the opposers of the “holy, just and good” law of God deceive themselves and others, is the very pious one that proposes to serve God every day. They tell us every day should be devoted to God—every day should be a Sabbath, &c. As though the Sabbath institution was subversive of this pious end—as though the setting apart of one day of the week to the exclusive service and worship of God would tend to cause men to serve the Devil all the rest of the week. If this is so, it is a powerful argument against the arrangement of the great God, the maker of the heavens and the earth. It shows that he made a great mistake when he instituted in Eden the weekly Sabbath. There, before man had served the Devil at all, the Creator blessed and sanctified the day on which he had rested, and thus instituted the Sabbath which the Lord Jesus said was made for man. What a sad mistake!

But to lay irony aside, this every-day Sabbath doctrine when fully understood amounts to no Sabbath. And instead of devoting every day to the service of God, it arises from an unwillingness to serve him one day, giving it exclusively to God, as required in his law. And when such people will cease to profane the day that God has reserved to himself, I shall be more ready to believe that they are willing to spend the rest of the week in his service, doing all to the glory of God.

Is it possible that men can deceive themselves with such sophistry as the above? R. F. COTTRELL.