It Does not Change the Truth.
—A subscriber sends a copy of a holiness paper which contains two articles on the Sabbath question, in which the writer’s chief proofs are negative. We have not time to answer all those who rise up and cry, as does this article, “It is not so.” Men can contradict anything and everything, but that does not change the truth. For instance, it is said, “From the creation down two thousand five hundred years, no command was given to keep a Sabbath.” In a way this might be considered so; that is, no command is recorded; but this is also true of many other moral duties. Where is the command against idolatry, or profanity, or adultery? But the whole book of Genesis, which is a book of history and not of law, shows conclusively that all the moral duties of the Decalog, including the Sabbath, were in force. Gen. 2:2, 3 is proof that a command concerning the Sabbath must have been given to man. It could not have been sanctified, set apart, or appointed to man, for whom it was made (Mark 2:27), except as God gave directions concerning it.