In Line With the Prophecy
By C. McReynolds
The Rev. Dr. Bascom Robins, of Burlington, Kan., is delivering in that place a series of lectures on “The Decalogue.” The last Sunday in January he made the following bold assertions: “The Sabbath, seventh day, was in one of the decalogues; but there were three of them,—one from Adam to Moses, one from Moses to Christ, and one from Christ onward to continue indefinitely. In the first they kept the seventh-day Sabbath because the Lord finished his work on the seventh day, and then rested. In the second they kept a sabbath that comes on every day of the week, as the fourth of July does; and in the Christian decalogue the first day was made the Sabbath by divine appointment. But there is a class of people in this country who will not keep the Christian sabbath unless they are forced to do so; but that can be easily done. We have twenty million of men, besides women and children, in this country, who want this country to keep the Christian sabbath. If we (the First-day observers) would say we will not sell anything to them, we will not buy anything from them, we will not work for them or hire them to work for us, the thing could be wiped out, and all the world would keep the Christian sabbath.” While his assertions regarding the decalogue are absolutely false and groundless, he little realized how clearly in line with the prophecy of Revelation 13 is his proposed plan for wiping out that people who will not keep the Christian (?) sabbath unless forced to do so. His plan may very soon be tried. Are we ready for the issue? It is surely coming.