p. 434 | Sabbath Conversation

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 14, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 28.

Sabbath Conversation

The following question and answer come from the Golden Rule, of Boston, the Christian Endeavor organ:—

"We are forbidden to speak of secular things on the Sabbath. What is a Christian woman to do who has an unconverted husband, who does not care to hear or talk of spiritual things? Shall she keep prayerfully silent, and bear the consequences, or may she speak to him?"

"Where, pray, are we forbidden to speak of secular things on the Sabbath? You must be sadly twisting some text. The Sabbath is made for man. Use it in a sensible way. I heartily agree, nevertheless, that we do not talk enough, on Sunday, or any other day, about religious matters."

How much better would it be to refer to the Bible: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord." Isa. 58:13, 14. We will talk about that in which we delight.