A Definite Day

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 27, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 33.

To say that the Sabbath is any seventh day, is to charge God with confusion; for if it is any seventh day, the individual has the right to choose whatever day he may desire, and in a family of seven there might be seven different days chosen, which would make constant confusion, and bring no real satisfaction to the individual keeper of his own day. God made man, and therefore knew what proportion of time man needed, and that proportion of time was indicated by the Creator. But He knew, too, that to save confusion, there must be a definite day of the septenary cycle chosen, and therefore He chose that day around which clustered all the great facts of creation. He has not mentioned, even, the proportion of time, but He has mentioned the definite day; and by this very thing He shows us that it is not the proportion of time—a one seventh—which is the particular thing, but it is the particular, definite day, the last day in this cycle of days. Upon this the Bible is very definite, clear, and unequivocal.