Limiting Yourself

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 25, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 25.

Limiting Yourself

MR. SUNDAY LAW PROMOTER, You are jeopardizing your own liberty in working for a Sunday law. Suppose you are successful, and are enabled to enact as stringent a law as the Lord's Day Alliance of Canada has done, or as exists in the State of Georgia, for instance. After you have accomplished this, you might wish to become a seventh-day observer, and under such circumstances could not afford to observe two days; you would find it necessary to employ Sunday in proper, legitimate labor. But in this you would find yourself hampered, limited, made a criminal, by your own law. You would find that you had by your human unwisdom in a decided way limited your own freedom. But you say you will not change. You do not know. Saul of Tarsus found that it was "hard to kick against the goads," and changed his course in harmony with God's way. From his exceeding madness against heretics, he came to that state of mind in which he thus expresses the ruling principle of his life: "For the love of Christ constraineth us."

"Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." Do not place upon the statute-books any law that will limit your own freedom of choice.