Sunday Work and Divine Law
The last Sunday of the session of the California Legislature was spent by the lawmakers in very strenuous work. They were seeking to pass the large number of bills that were still pending, and otherwise dispose of the business of the session by the time appointed for their closing. One of the ministers in Sacramento is reported to have preached a vigorous sermon against this "Sabbath desecration." In announcing his sermon, he said it would "not be exciting, but there will be some roasting. I intend to show up the disregard for divine law." It would be interesting to see how this gentleman could show any disregard for divine law in working on Sunday. The first day of God's creative work was, of course, the first day of the week, now known as Sunday. He rested on the seventh day of the week, now called Saturday. He gave also a divine law—the only document, by the way, that was ever written upon this earth by the hand of the Creator Himself. That law specifically says that "the seventh day is the Sabbath." There is no divine law for any change, or for any other weekly rest day than the seventh day of the week. If we would cling more closely, in our Christian teaching, to what the Bible says, and not follow so much after the traditions and sentiments of men, there would be far more power in our work. With the large number of Bibles that there are in the world, and with the great opportunity for reading the Sacred Book, any one ought to know that there is no divine law against working on Sunday. Sunday observance is a counterfeit of the true observance of the Sabbath of Jehovah. A great many people do not know this, but they might know it if they would read their Bibles.