Questions About Sabbath Breaking
By C. S.
A singular communication signed “Several Readers of the Review,” asks if we think breaking the seventh-day Sabbath is committing sin enough to consign us to destruction eternally, and whether we think any one has ever lived, except the Master, who has perfectly kept the commandments, and whether it is any worse to break the fourth than any of the others. Breaking the Sabbath after the mind has been enlightened as to its claims, is sin; and, if persisted in and unrepented of, will bring its sure results; for the wages of sin is death. Paul says that all have sinned; but Christ is provided to forgive our sins, if we confess them, 1 John 1:9, and cease to practice them. Isa. 55:7; 1 John 2:1. 1. If the last question is designed as an excuse for not keeping the Sabbath it betrays a lamentable state of both the understanding and the conscience in reference to the law of God. A violation of any one of the commandments, makes us law breakers. But to say that because breaking any particular commandment is no worse than breaking others, therefore we will not try to keep that commandment—such a course will be found in the great day of accounts to be the top twig of folly. C. S.