The Sabbath Upheld by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 1, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 39.

The Sabbath Upheld

By Editor

An eastern religious paper has the following:—

"The Sabbath Upheld.—A paragraph now on its passage among our exchanges says that 'out of fifty thousand English clergymen invited to preach in favor of the Sunday opening of museums in England, only fifty-nine consented, and half of these were Unitarians.'"

But this is not in favor of the Sabbath, but in favor of a counterfeit to the Sabbath. And even then it is but a negative evidence. When our Sunday-law friends ask clergymen to preach in favor of Sunday laws and Sunday observance, how many respond? But let the reader remember that a Sunday sentiment in all cases where knowledge obtains, is not Sabbath sentiment. It is sentiment in favor of tradition as against God's word.