An Admission Concerning Sabbath Observance

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

An Admission Concerning Sabbath Observance

The Rochester (N. Y.) Herald of May 20, contains a report of a sermon delivered by Rev. Mcylian Hamilton Lichliter at Olean, N. Y., on “Sabbath Observance,” in which he made the following frank admission concerning the Sabbath question:—

This matter of Sabbath observance is a practical question, and must be treated in a practical manner. Our ministers have been basing their arguments for the Sunday observance upon the fourth commandment. What's the use? What good does it do to base our arguments upon a thing which technically is not binding, which the Jewish rabbis and socialist organizations know is not, and laugh to scorn our arguments upon that ground. We must base our arguments upon something besides the fourth commandment, for they know that that is Jewish in spirit and temper, and laugh us to scorn for quoting a commandment which we do not obey and will not.