The Veil on the Heart

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 2, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 34.

The Veil on the Heart.

The veil on the face of Moses prevented ancient Israel from seeing the glory of God. The veil on the heart, spiritual blindness, prevented them from seeing Christ. That people who then rejected Christ, the Son of God, the Lord of the Sabbath, are now rejecting the Sabbath of Jehovah as a tradition of man, and turning to the pagan Sunday as an institution of God. The Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, of June 3, in reporting a sermon by Rev. Dr. Hirsch, rabbi of Temple Sinai, in speaking in Temple Berith Kodesh, of which Rabbi Landsberg is minister, said:

"We Jews are gradually abandoning old superstitious ideas, and conforming our practices to the modern conceptions of science and thought. The sentiment which has prevailed for so many centuries of holding our religious exercises on a modern Saturday is fast passing away. The new form is rapidly dawning, and soon the Jewish services will be held on a Sunday, as all other denominations hold them. This must come; it will come. The practice which has been so tenaciously held of conducting our worship on a Saturday is a superstition that has clung with more than ordinary power wherever Jews have assembled to pay homage to the all-powerful God. But God can be worshiped any day, and as Sunday is the most acceptable time in view of the national customs which exist, it should be the day on which the services are held."

True it is, "he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth." Rabbi Hirsch may call it what he will, but the fact is that such action on the part of the Jews is turning from the rock of God's word to the worship of the beast. Yes, it will come; all apostate powers will worship the beast. Rev. 13:3, 4. But every true Jew who holds to the Sabbath of the word of God, will in the last great conflict acknowledge Him who is its Lord.