Note and Comment by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 15, 1906

Note and Comment

By Editor

ONE of the latest claims in behalf of the Sunday sabbath is that Seventh-day Adventists are in error in maintaining that the decalogue is the moral law, the proof for this charge being that the Sabbath commandment is ceremonial. What interesting discoveries in theology have been made in the effort to make of none effect the plain teaching of the Scriptures concerning the seventh-day Sabbath! Such an assertion shows to what desperate straits the defenders of the false sabbath have been reduced. But we are glad to say that there are some who will not sacrifice truth and consistency to the claims of the overzealous defenders of a creed which lacks Scriptural support. Thus R. C. Allen, writing in The Bible Record, says:—

The law constitutes the decalogue, or ten words, which is preserved for the use of the whole race in the Hebrew Bible. The decalogue is then known as the moral law or law that is naturally right according to the principles of correct conduct among moral beings.

It is absurd for any one to assert that the decalogue is not the moral law, and only the extreme need of an argument would ever suggest such an idea to a student of the Scriptures.