p. 563 | The Message Is Onward

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 36.

The Message Is Onward.

There never was a time when the Third Angel's Message, the preparatory message to Christ's second coming, was going to the world as rapidly as at the present time. This message embraces the entire gospel, given of God to restore sinful man to obedience to all God's righteous precepts. In the very center of this message is prominent the great truth of the Sabbath, the true Sabbath of the Lord, which stands for the sign of the only true God and Saviour. On the other hand, opposed to this message is the work of apostasy, the object of which is to draw men away from the truth of God, from faith in the gospel as the power of God, and from the obedience of faith of God's commandments. The very center of this apostasy is the counterfeit sabbath, the Sunday of papo-papal origin. This institution in its so-called Christian aspect was born in apostasy, cradled and nurtured by increasing apostasy, and will be enforced in the last struggle by a still greater apostasy, because from greater light. Friend, on which side do you stand? It is not a mere matter of days; it is Christ or antichrist, loyalty to God or treason to his government.