Another No-Sabbath Argument.
By J. H. Waggoner
If there is no obligation to keep the Sabbath in this dispensation, we think its opposers will be likely to find the true reason some time, for their brains are as prolific with reasons as Egypt was with frogs. None of those yet devised, however, seem to answer the purpose, for they show their dissatisfaction with them by constantly raising new ones. The last one is the product of an ingenious preacher in Indiana. He said, when the Saviour answered the question, what good things should be done to inherit eternal life, he quoted only the precepts on the second table of stone. As he did not mention any of those on the first table, none of them are now binding. Of course the Sabbath, being contained in one of them, is not now in force! This is frank, and right to the point. It is strictly consistent with every principle which makes void the fourth commandment. It is true that, according to this reasoning, profanity and image worship are no sins, but what of that if the Sabbath can be disposed of? Every theory of Sabbath abolition tends to the same point; to the utter abolition of the highest moral obligation. Now in all soberness, has not this matter been carried far enough to satisfy all who have any regard for the honor and the word of God? Are all the opposers of the Sabbath of the Lord so blind that they cannot see the intent of such a theory? or are they so lost to a sense of moral restraint that they can publicly advocate the abolition of moral obligation, and leave the world free to idolatry, to false worship, and to profanity, and not blush for their course? May the Lord spare his people in these days of error and delusion, and lead the honest of heart to see and acknowledge “the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”