The Sunday Cause Is Weak
By Editor
The California Sabbath Association, which, after all, is a Sunday association, held its annual meeting at the First Congregational Church in Oakland, May 18, 19. A brief report of its meetings may be given later. Suffice to say, its attendance was very small, not to exceed forty or fifty at the largest meetings. We understood that some of the members feared that the "weakness" of their cause, as represented by their number, would become known. But greatness or strength is not in God's work measured by human numbers; for one man alone with God is a host. The weakness of a religious cause is always inherent; if it is of God, it can not be overthrown. If it is not of God and truth, it will perish tho millions stand at its back. The Sunday cause is essentially and inherently weak. It has numbers sufficient, but the men who answer to its shibboleth, do not themselves believe that it has intrinsic and God-given worth; if they do, it is an imagination of their own heart, or the instruction of their church or tradition; it is not a conviction founded in God's Word. In a way the Sunday movement will succeed, for God's Word says so; but it will be only seeming success, heralding utter and everlasting defeat, not only of Sunday, but of all who ally themselves with the institution in opposition to God. Jesus said, "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up." The Sunday sabbath is not an institution of the Lord's planting.