Back to the Bible by Abram Herbert Lewis

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 12, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 36.

Back to the Bible

By Abram Herbert Lewis

THE Bible is the Protestant standard of faith and practise. In that Book the Sabbath question is neither obscure nor difficult. The fourth commandment stands in the heart of the Decalogue, and bears the signature of Jehovah as no other one of the commandments does. Christ’s teachings and example concerning the Sabbath are plain and unequivocal. They constitute His commandments on the Sabbath question, and He

declares that those who love Him will keep His commandments.

Men will not keep the Sabbath, nor any other day as the Sabbath, unless moved by love and guided by conscience. There was never any reason for interference on the part of the civil law, and the results of such interference are increasingly evil. Put the issue on the basis of the Bible, and let the behests of conscience direct, and Sunday laws will die a natural death. Wiser legislation ought to hasten their removal. Let us have protected rights to rest, and not enforced idleness on a specific day, under the false claim that not to remain idle on a particular period of twenty-four hours is a crime. This the evolution of Sunday law now demands.—A. H. Lewis, D.D., LL.D.