A Powerless Remedy

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 2, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 34.

A Powerless Remedy

The Epworth Herald of August 2 has an editorial on “What if We Play on Sunday?” It admits the need of recreation, but the Herald feels that the final argument is against it. Here are two utterances:

“The Sabbath was made for man; when man unmakes it, he is getting ready to lose it. And everything that wipes out the difference between Sunday and Saturday makes it easier to use Sunday as another Saturday—in short, as a work day.”

“To save everybody’s Sunday—more free time on the other days, and half of Saturday without labor. To lose Sunday—no time to play, and, when ‘necessity’ arises, a little more time to work.”

That is to say, We will set aside the only day that God has called holy, upon which He rested, which He gave to man as a Sabbath, we will do more if possible to secularize it, in order to save the law-enforced religious day that has no Bible sacredness, and in the nature of the case could have no divine sanction as the Lord’s Sabbath. It will never work for man’s spiritual good; it can not.