Uncertain Witness

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 13.

Uncertain Witness

It is bad enough to have two contradictory witnesses on one side of a cause; but it is worse when one witness contradicts himself. And yet both these cases are frequent among the witnesses for the traditions of men against the Word of God. For instance, before us lies an article written against the seventh-day Sabbath, and yet in favor of Sunday observance. The writer first argues that it makes no “difference in the good received by us, whether the day chosen was the first one of the week or some other day,” that because the days of the year “will not divide into even weeks,” “it would not be possible to keep a certain day each week, year after year, as a Sabbath, which would correspond with all previous years;” and that “the observance of this commandment [is] impossible” because “our earth is round”! In the same article a little further on the writer says: “But putting all this aside, it is very important that we keep what we call the first day of the week as our sabbath, because everywhere among all Christian nations it is the day so set apart, and laws are made for its protection.” That is to say, God’s commandment can not be kept, was not designed to be kept, he did not mean what he said; but the definite day of man’s choosing can be kept, and the laws of men should be obeyed!! Truly it may be said of such teaching that it is too uncertain to follow. Better the Word of God. “What is the chaff to the wheat?”