THEY HAVE IT NOW by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 43.

THEY HAVE IT NOW.

By Editor

At the recent state convention of the California W. C. T. U., at Modesto, the following, among other resolutions, was adopted:—

Resolved, That we use our influence to secure a sabbath rest day, believing the sabbath of vital importance to the preservation of our Christian and national life; also that we will do all we can, in co-operation with other societies, to secure the closing of saloons on Sunday.

Now why, dear, good sisters, should you exert any influence at all? A Sabbath rest day is already secured and has been since the creation. God ordained the Sabbath then. The record is found in Gen. 2:2, 3. He affirmed the same day for the same reasons from the blazing, quaking mount. Ex. 20:8-11. Our Lord Jesus Christ confirmed it in his teaching and life, and on the cross. Matt. 5:17-20; Luke 4:16; Matt. 19:17; Titus 2:14. Why not take this Sabbath day forever secured? "Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven." Sisters, why cling to Sunday? Any attempt to establish it by law will prove ineffectual. Man can not make holy that which God has not sanctified. Neither can man destroy that which God has made holy. It seems to us that it would be so much easier and better for Christian women to espouse and observe the cause that Christ did.