Persecution for Keeping the Sabbath
By Editor
Is it not strange that a Christian association should refuse to allow a paper in their reading-room for the one sole reason that it taught the obligation of the seventh-day Sabbath, the day kept by the Founder of Christianity? And yet this paper was refused such a place, for such a reason, just recently. The loss is not ours. But we are made sad that Christ’s professed children should reject one that came in His name, teaching the observance of the things which He taught and practised. But, more than this, to-day men are lying in jail because they belong to a denomination that keeps the day commanded of God and kept by Christ. Is not the secret of this found in these words of Christ: “They all put you out of the synagogs; yea, the time cometh; that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor Me.” John 16:2, 3. We are sorry for the persecuted; but we are sorrier for the persecutors.