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Did He ever Command It?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 30, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 20.

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Did He ever Command It?

By Edwin R. Jones

CHRIST, in his final charge to his disciples to preach his gospel, told them not only to teach all nations, but what to teach them. “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” Matt. 28:19, 20.
Christ's ministers were to teach those who believed the gospel and were baptized to observe all things that he had commanded them. Now if Christ never commanded his disciples to observe the first day of the week as the Sabbath, then they were not to teach it; and the teaching of those who do teach that the first day of the week is the Sabbath, is no part of the gospel of Christ. EDWIN R. JONES.