The Ruin Begun by Desecrating the Sabbath

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 10, 1874

The Ruin Begun by Desecrating the Sabbath

THE ruin of multitudes has begun with a desecration of the Sabbath. They were in the sanctuary but a part of the day—then not at all—then read the novels and political papers at home—then rode out, or spent the day in some saloon or refectory, in company with the unprincipled and dissipated—then drank, gamed, and revelled—then leaped over the bounds of honesty, defrauded or stole—and then—but you know the rest. And this is the downward career of thousands—these the steps by which they descended from virtue, respectability, and comfort, to corruption, disgrace, and destruction.