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CAN WE KNOW THE DAY?

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 11.

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CAN WE KNOW THE DAY?

By R. F. Cottrell

It is said that it is impossible to find the day of the Sabbath. If this is so, of course you cannot keep it. Then who is to blame if we do not keep it? Not ourselves surely. No one is to be blamed for not doing what he cannot do.
Now who believes in God, believes he commands us to keep his Sabbath, and yet believes he has left it by his word and his providence so that we cannot obey his commandment, because it is impossible to find the day? I do not believe in nor worship such a God as that. If this is a true description of God, it is no wonder you do not care to honor him by keeping his Sabbath. But if God is not of this character, you can keep his Sabbath, and you ought to do so. Make sure on which party the fault lies, before you come to the Judgment.
R. F. COTTRELL.