A POPULAR WISH OF SUNDAY KEEPERS
By G. W. Reaser
Frequently, when the binding claims of “the Sabbath according to the commandment” of Jehovah are presented to an audience of first-day-of-the-week observers, a popular voice is raised: “If the Christian world only kept the Sabbath, we would be glad to keep it instead of Sunday; but we do not like to be on the unpopular side in keeping the seventh day.” Their own proposition proves that their consciences approve of keeping the Bible Sabbath, and really condemn the practice of keeping the first day of the week, without divine authority. Question: Where conscience, enlightened by the Bible, approves of keeping “the Sabbath according to the commandment,” will the Lord, in the day of final reckoning, excuse the possessor of the conscience in keeping a rival day, a day that is not mentioned in the word of God as being set apart for rest and worship? Why not have the approval of both conscience and the word of God in Sabbath keeping?