p. 133 | Sunday Law by P. Strong

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1872

Sunday Law.

By P. Strong

“What are you going to do about the Christian Sabbath?” This question was asked at a camp-meeting near Ionia last fall. Nearly four thousand were present to listen to that question, and the home appeal made by the minister in its behalf. “The German element that has come over here, and the French commune, have no regard for the Christian Sabbath, and are treading it under foot. What will you do, citizens of Ionia County, when brought to the polls to vote on this question.”

This is bringing the matter right home, and it is evident that this test will come. And shall we who have the truth remain inactive while this question is being agitated by the ministry, the press, and well-organized societies? Let every lawful means be used to advance the truth; and the labor will not be spent in vain. The “well done” will be said to those only who have wrought in the Lord’s vineyard.

Evidently, many that are interested in this question think they are doing God service, and that the Bible teaches that Sunday is the Sabbath, while others will seek only to carry out their selfish ends, and, when asked for their reason, could give no better than one who was asked for his reason, gave before a crowded house. He rose with these remarks: “If I must, I must. My grandfather kept it, and my father kept it, and so have I. And I am bound to keep it, right or wrong.”

This is the spirit that we shall have to meet, that might makes right, and the custom of our fathers must not be set aside, but must be sustained by law. P. Strong.