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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 7, 1882

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 34; Special Edition, No. 1

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Well Begun.

The Scriptures plainly bring to view a Sabbath reform to be accomplished in the last days. It is a matter of prophecy that, in the time of the end, the professedly Christian world generally would be trampling the Sabbath under their feet, so that it would be a part of the special work of the true ministers of Christ in these last days, to call upon men “to turn away their feet from the Sabbath;” and as a marked characteristic of those who receive the truth, it could be said, “Here are they that keep the commandments of God.”
A comparison of the creeds of Christendom with the word of God, shows readily enough the reform that is needed. The seventh day has been torn from its position in the decalogue, and another day has been made to usurp its place. All this must be reversed. And the work is already well under way. Over a quarter of a century ago it was begun by a few earnest souls upon whom the light of the prophecy had dawned. Accessions have continually swelled the ranks. The strength of the Scripture testimony and the clearness of the argument for the true Sabbath have more and more clearly appeared, and the utter lack of foundation for the Sunday institution, Scriptural, historical, logical, and even inferential, has become equally conspicuous.
Some thirty thousand persons are now standing boldly forth as the defenders of the true against the claims of the false. Most of these were formerly in the Sunday-keeping ranks, but from the clearness of the light, have changed sides. And there are “more to follow.” What can the advocates of Sunday do? In the Scriptures they find no support for their institution. History is against them. Their defenses prove worthless. Their guns are spiked. They too could join those who accept the truth; but they will not. There is left them only that to which error is ever fain to resort, after all else fails—human legislation.