p. 3 | EVERY DAY ALIKE by Clarence M. Redfield

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 13.

“EVERY DAY ALIKE.”

By Clarence M. Redfield

SOME persons have thought that the words, “Another esteemeth every day alike” (Rom. 4:5), include the Sabbath. But this by no means follows. A parallel is found to this in Ex. 16:4. God told Moses that the children of Israel should gather a certain portion of manna “every day,” and immediately goes on to say that He gives this command that He may prove them whether they will walk in His law or no. Then He explains what His law is by providing that they shall gather a double amount on the sixth day and none on the Sabbath. Are we, then, to infer that Jehovah commanded His people to break the Sabbath in order that He might prove them, whether they would keep it or no?—Not at all. And, yet, that is what we must conclude if we take the term “every day” to include the Sabbath. “Every day” included only the “six working days.” Eze. 46:1. Let all beware that they do not accuse God of inconsistency or of commanding the violation of His own immutable law in their efforts to uphold a man-made day of rest.

CLARENCE M. REDFIELD.

Augusta, Mont.