Can Government Enforce the Sabbath?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 4, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 27.

Can Government Enforce the Sabbath?

Human government can never enforce God's Word, or Law, or Sabbath; it can only enforce some man's conception of what God requires. Men of old, professing to be teachers of God, believed that Jesus Christ ought to die because He did not observe the Sabbath in the same way they observed it. There are religious teachers now who believe that men who keep the same Sabbath that Jesus did ought to die because they do not observe a day which Jesus never observed. Should such teachers ever be entrusted with the power of Cæsar?