SABBATH THOUGHTS by T. L. Waters

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 20, 1877

SABBATH THOUGHTS.

By T. L. Waters

“Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”

Like the lighthouse on the sands of Hatteras, built to warn the mariner of the miry quicksands of that stormy coast, is the Sabbath institution, which was given to mankind by the Creator to keep in memory his name, and to preserve them from the vain and foolish imaginations of the natural heart concerning him. All through the long centuries of strife, bloodshed, and anarchy of which this world’s history is the record, has the light of this beacon shone out to the world from that people who were once Jehovah’s chosen. Cast off as a nation, they have clung to it with a tenacity of purpose worthy of their better days, when all Israel were wont to go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord of hosts.

Nations that have made earth tremble, and its dwellers pale beneath their military tread, have passed into oblivion, and are known only by the record of the historian, and still this peculiar people exists. Scattered among the nations as thistle blows are scattered by the autumn winds, they have carried this light from their own loved Palestine to the farthest shores. And since the days of the apostles, there have not been wanting among Christians some to uphold this beacon light, and let its rays shine out amid the moral darkness. All through the Dark Ages God had witnesses to his truth; and at this present time, its rays are shining out clearer than ever.

Brethren, let us be guided by this light. It points us to the true God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. It warns us to beware of infidelity and disobedience; for He who created the earth will yet rule it in righteousness. T. L. WATERS.