THERE are many counterfeit coins and bills in circulation in the commercial world, supposed by good men to be genuine. The same is true in the religious world, and Sunday is one of the counterfeits. Its origin is in the pagan mists of remote ages. It was brought into the Christian Church by half-converted sun-worshipers and called “the Lord’s day,” but it does not bear the mark of genuineness. It was not struck in God’s mint. It is true that good people have kept Sunday and are keeping it, supposing it to be the Sabbath; but this does not alter its character. A well-worn counterfeit bill is just as truly counterfeit as one just issued from the press. Many good people have passed counterfeit bills, supposing them to be genuine. Good people are doing this to-day. But this does not make the bill genuine; and when sufficient proof that it is a counterfeit is presented, its further use as genuine currency is criminal in intent as well as practise; and so also when sufficient evidence of the falsity of the Sunday claims is presented, its further observance as the Sabbath of the Lord becomes sin. He who persists in violation of light sets himself on the throne of God, and his opinion of what is expedient in the place of God’s law. This principle of self-exaltation was at the very foundation of Lucifer’s overthrow. It is what led him to substitute his light for God’s glory, and bring in sun-worship and the observance of the sun’s day in the stead of the worship of the great Creator and the observance of the memorial of his power. This principle lies at the foundation of all the Sunday laws and all the religious persecution the world has ever seen. The makers and passers of counterfeit money are enemies to the government whose notes are counterfeited. Their crime is inexcusable if they know the law and know the coin to be counterfeit. Is this not just as true respecting God’s government, and the counterfeit institutions which Satan has introduced? If one counterfeit is allowable, why not all? If man may substitute a sabbath not of God’s making for the true and only Sabbath, why may he not substitute another god for the one and only God? To utterly set aside the Sabbath is to set aside “the Lord of the Sabbath.” The question that every Christian ought to ask before he receives any institution or dogma is, Is it of God? Was it coined in the mint of heaven? Is it of God’s planting? Jesus Christ has said, “Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.”