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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 27, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 38, No. 2.

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Testimony, No. 20.

By R. F. COTTERILL

THIS contains instructions and admonitions of great importance and thrilling interest. How gratefully should we receive and carefully heed the voice of God to us. They will not be unheeded and in vain to those who believe in God and are willing to do his will in all things.
In reading that part which relates to the proper manner of observing the Sabbath, I was struck with the perfect harmony between the instruction and the ninety-second Psalm, the inspired title of which is, “A Psalm or song for the Sabbath day.” The works of God, are celebrated by the Sabbath. Says the psalmist, “For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.”
To be shut up within walls built by human hands, and thus shut ourselves away from the works of God during the whole of the Sabbath, is evidently a great mistake. The Sabbath may be made a delight to the young, as well as to the old. R. F. COTTERILL.