The Restoration of the Sabbath
By Editor
IN a meeting of the Men and Religion Forward Movement in Scottish Rites Hall, San Francisco, February 27, Mr. Robert T. Moore, of Berkeley, one of the leaders in the movement, presented his views regarding the Sabbath in the following: "Some believe we ought to observe the real Sabbath. The Men and Religion Forward Movement is going to lay emphasis on this, a claim of the divine. Many do not appreciate the fact that in his service in life man's available resources will all be quickened and strengthened because that seventh day is given to him for rest, thought, and prayer. God Almighty knew just what He said about that seventh day—'Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.' It is essential to the welfare of our national institutions and public integrity to preserve that Lord's day. Some may not be agreed about its observance. We believe it can be restored, and the Men and Religion Movement is set to the restoration of the sanctity of the Christian sabbath." This is good, if Mr. Moore means by "the real Sabbath" the real (true) Sabbath, but the real Sabbath is the seventh-day Sabbath instituted of God in Eden, and observed by Jesus Christ. God did know "just what He said" when He emphasized the day and enjoined men to "keep it holy,"—not to make it holy, but to keep holy the day which He had made holy. "It can be restored," but it must be in God's way, by His Word and Spirit in the heart, but never by civil law or coercion. When men attempt to enforce God's ordinances by civil law, they enforce always the dead, dry, crushing form, which kills; never the true.