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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 10.

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Definite

By WILLIS G. TWITCHELL

WILLIS G. TWITCHELL
THE remnant church has a definite work to do. “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Rev. 12: 17.
They are a definite people, and they have the specific work of restoring the definite Sabbath to its rightful place. “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.” Isa. 58: 12, 13.
Let us see how definite the Sabbath commandment is, by noticing how many times God uses the definite article in it: “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. Nine times is used the definite article in this one commandment. How much more definite could he have made it? The indefinite articles an and a are not once used. The law is definite, the requirements are definite, the Sabbath is definite.
The more carefully and prayerfully we study the Word of God, the more we shall see the definite purpose of God in all his works. Let us seek that power from God that will make it possible for his definite purpose to be wrought out in our lives, that it may have the definite effect upon others.
Mohawk, N. Y.