p. 228 | SUNDAY FOLLY

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1880

SUNDAY FOLLY.

SOME time since a minister, preaching against the Sabbath, made the following statements:—

"If a man should attempt to hallow a day that God has not hallowed, it is not only presumption, but folly." At another time he said: "We have a day [the first day] that is far superior to the seventh day as Christ is superior to Moses."

On this a listener, (a farmer, not a minister,) wrote the following brief but forcible argument:—

1. Moses was man; Christ is God, or equal with God. Then Christ's superiority over Moses is infinite, and the superiority of the first day over the seventh is infinite.

2. Moses was not responsible for the Sabbath; God sanctified and blessed it, and in the hearing of all the people commanded it to be kept holy, and then wrote the command on a tablet of stone (that the hand writing of God might be proof of its divine authority).

3. We have no evidence that God blessed, sanctified, or hallowed the first day. He did not command it to be kept holy. Christ did not command it to be kept. The apostles did not command it to be kept in any way different from the ordinary working days. Then when man attempts to hallow the first day of the week, he attempts to hallow what God has not hallowed; hence it is folly.

4. Conclusion: Man's folly is infinitely superior to God's wisdom.