MY OWN WAY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 50.

MY OWN WAY.

"To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."

For many first-day people know The Scriptures do most plainly show The seventh is the Sabbath day, Yet are not willing to obey. It goes so hard against the grain, They hope the Lord will not complain; At least he'll not send me to hell If I keep Sunday pretty well.

I'll make it up some other way, But pray do let me keep first day; Who keep the seventh are so few It seems to me 'twill never do. I'll serve the Lord with all my might, Do anything besides that's right; I'll go exhort, I'll preach and pray, But only let me keep first day.

I think I can do much more good Than otherwise I ever could, If God would let me disobey That law about the seventh day; It makes no odds, as I can see, If one is kept as it ought to be. And now the prospect looks so bright, I think I'll risk it, wrong or right.

—Selected.