“THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.”
By J. M. Gallemore
Professed Christians, since about A. D. 321, have been so much averse to having anything in common with the Jews that they not only reject God’s Sabbath on the plea that it is Jewish, but they are also choosing to serve other gods than the God of the Jews. This they do by rejecting the Sabbath. If God says the seventh day is his hallowed Sabbath, and commands all his subjects to remember it, as he most clearly and unmistakably does; if that anti-christian power, the Roman Catholic Church, says, Remember Sunday, the first day of the week, to keep it a Sabbath over the Lord’s Sabbath (a thing which that power has dared to do, in fulfillment of Dan. 7:25); and if intelligent men and women, in the face of these indisputable facts and in the light of all that has been revealed on the subject, choose to keep the day thus exalted in preference to the one God has blessed and commanded men to keep holy, then we ask in the name of reason, honesty, and truth, Are they not serving other gods in preference to the true and living God who reigns in Heaven above? Is there any way of evading this conclusion? There certainly is not. Facts are facts; deny them as often as you may. Truly, “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.” Men are choosing to reject the light of salvation on this subject, and to follow the traditions of their fathers; they are making void the commandments of God through the traditions of men; and the professed people of God love to have it so. Light is going forth to the world on God’s Sabbath and other important subjects; but the great majority of mankind prefer to walk in darkness. Sad as it may appear, such is the case. Who will be wise, and turn from trampling upon the Lord’s sacred Sabbath? Who will discard all false gods, and seek unto the only true and living God? Who will come out of the moral darkness that enshrouds the world, and walk in the clear light of God’s revealed truth? Who will take heed to the sure word of God, and cease trusting to the wisdom of this world? The wisdom of this world is but foolishness before God. It is true wisdom to know God, to accept his truth, and to conform to its requirements. Who, then, will be wise? Time will tell. The great day of the Lord, which hasteth greatly, will reveal who have been wise and who have been foolish,—who have taken God at his word and who have trusted to worldly wisdom. J. M. GALLEMORE.