WHY WE KEEP THE SABBATH.
By Editor
IN reply to a request in the Signs for someone to send one direct Bible text showing Sunday to be the Sabbath, a gentleman writes: "I do not propose to discuss the subject, for I am not sufficiently versed; but, Yankee-like, I can turn the question by asking you the same in regard to Saturday. Please give chapter and verse to sustain you in Sabbath or Saturday worship." This we are very happy to do. "And God spake all these words, saying, . . . Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath-day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20:1, 8-11. This is direct, simple, easily understood, and comes direct from Heaven.167It is the foundation of all Sabbath observance. It is sufficient of itself, and the Bible contains abundance of corroborative testimony, but not a word for first-day observance.