THE SABBATH by M. A. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 25, 1871

THE SABBATH.

By M. A. B.

We have heard from the east, from the south, and the west, Of commotion and tumult, and dreadful unrest; For the Sabbath of man is profaned by man's servants, And men call for law to enforce its observance.

Can it be that wise men have so blinded their eyes, That they cannot perceive how the matter now lies? Lo! the Sabbath, on which they say men have so trod, Is the Sabbath of man, not the Sabbath of God.

Vain man! if so grieved when your own statutes are spurned, Shall not God's vials of wrath on you now be turned? Before you discover such faults of another, Take from your eye the beam, then look to your brother.

Can it be that man thought, when he made this decree, That from henceforth, the first day the Sabbath shall be, That the edict of man shall forever abide, While the law of Jehovah is thus set aside?

God's Sabbath at first disregarded with spurn, See! 'tis man's Sabbath now that is taking its turn. What fruit could be surer? Let man never forget, That the seventh-day Sabbath is God's Sabbath yet.

—M. A. B., Centralia, Ill., in Sabbath Recorder.