The True Sabbath of God
By Editor
The Rev. A. H. Norcross, D.D., at the Pennsylvania Sabbath Association Convention, held in Pittsburg, last month, in speaking on the Sunday question, said:— We want no Jewish, Continental, or American sabbath, but that of God, invested with the moral sanctions of the Decalogue, enthroned in the glory of Christ's resurrection—a pure Sabbath, divested of all human accretions. Its authority is divine. The question of Sabbath observance is not one of mere interpretation, already accomplished by our forefathers, but perfectly understood and recognized. Now, if this is the Sabbath which Dr. Norcross and those with him want, why do not they accept it as given by God in the Decalogue? The Sabbath of the Decalogue, and the only one which has "the moral sanctions of the Decalogue" is the seventh day, not the first. But another day has been chosen by man, and those who have thus chosen do make its observance one of "interpretation." The fourth commandment has been interpreted and perverted by the friends of Sunday till men have learned to despise, not only that precept, but all the others of the law. Those who have so persistently mis-interpreted the law as to make seventh day mean first, are largely responsible for the lawlessness in the world. And yet they accuse those who hold to the words of God as he gave them, of troubling Israel, even as Elijah was accused by idolatrous Ahab. If we desire the true Sabbath of God, why not take the one God says is his?