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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1889

Judaism and the Sabbath

By Editor

The Jewish Times and Observer thinks "that Judaism has a great mission before it," but it concludes that "if a part of that mission is to transform the Jewish Sabbath [Sabbath of Jehovah] into Sunday services we think the slower the progress the better it will be for Judaism." And we say, Amen. One of the hopeful signs to Protestants that the Jews are soon to embrace Christianity is that many no longer keep the Sabbath, and now hold Sunday services. If conversion to Christianity means the transgression of a single command of God's holy law, deliver the Jews from Christianity. But it does not mean this. Christ died to redeem men, not only from sin (Matt. 1:21), but from sinning (Tit. 2:14; 1 John 2:6; 3:6); and sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4; Rom. 7:7. If the Jews are to be converted, or are to make progress, it will not be in the direction of violation, but observance, of God's law; and God's law can only be observed through the grace of Christ.