Counterfeit and Genuine
By White
How long does it take a lie to become the truth? How long must a counterfeit bill pass before it becomes genuine? How long must black be called white to make it white? Of course we know that the common-sense answers to these are that the lie remains the lie, the counterfeit remains a counterfeit, black never becomes white. But, reader, this is just as true in religion as it is in common ethics, commerce, or physics. Apply it to one of the great questions before the world at the present time, the Sabbath. The Sunday can never become the Sabbath of the Lord by calling it so. It bears not the image and superscription of God. It is not current coin in the kingdom of heaven. It does not bear the hall-mark of genuineness. Under-officials may assume power to change it, may conspire with the counterfeiters to despoil and cheat the subjects, but it is counterfeit still. And God would have His children discern that from the great detector, His Word. When the fulness of time has come, all its hollowness and sham will be revealed. But let it be understood that by this note we are not condemning the honest souls who have observed it in the past and who still observe it. They have been blessed of God and are blessed, not because of passing the counterfeit, or receiving it, in their ignorance and thoughtlessness. Whatever blessings they receive, they receive in spite of the error. But in these last closing days before Christ comes, He would have all His children know the truth, and among the downtrodden truths to be restored is that of the Sabbath. See Isa. 58:13, 14. W.