p. 199 | The Sabbath a Delight by E. E. Sturges

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 6, 1868

The Sabbath a Delight

By E. E. Sturges

SR. E. E STURGES writes from Connecticut: The fifty-two Sabbaths, with which the years are interspersed, are welcomed with unspeakable joy by the weary pilgrim plodding his lonely way Zionward, as a sort of resting place, where he may renew his wasting strength for time and for eternity. God blessed and sanctified the holy Sabbath; and why have not Sabbath-keepers abundant incentives to exert themselves to admonish the world to keep God's perfect law? Shall we, standing on the very threshold of eternity, remain at “ease in Zion,” and behold honest souls perishing for lack of food that we are abundantly able to bestow? Is all done for our poor fellow-mortals that lies within our power to do? Sad indeed will be our cases with all the light we have been blessed with on present truth, to fall when not far from the kingdom. Brethren and sisters, little can we appreciate how the tender Spirit of the Lord has been grieved these many years by wicked and perverse generations teaching and following for doctrine the commandments of men, trespassing upon the sanctity of his holy day, prophesying a lie in the name of the Lord. The day is surely coming, we are already entering its shadows, when redemption's work shall cease. Then will God take vengeance on the nations that have dishonored him by trampling under foot his righteous law, and the help and pity of man will be of no avail. But to whom the Sabbath is now a delight, even now do they anticipate with joy the glad hour when redeemed from every peril, and borne on the bosom of a favored tide, they shall safely moor their bark in the haven of eternal rest.