A Purely Biblical Question
By Editor
THE Sabbath question is preeminently Biblical. That is the genesis of it. The Sabbath is Bible-revealed. From that Book men learn of its institution, the laws of its observance, its benefit to the race. In the light of that Book it ought to be settled. Many have so settled it in their own life. They have found—and the finding has involved a cross—that the seventh day is the Sabbath; that Christ, the infallible, perfect Man, taught it, and as our example observed it. They believe this so, thoroly that they are willing to suffer pecuniary loss and ostracism rather than yield it. To relinquish it would be to them disloyalty to God. They hold no enmity toward those who do not agree with them. They concede them cheerfully the same right to differ which they demand for themselves. Now ought they to be compelled to keep another day, in deference to the opinion of another class who may be in the majority? Is it just? Is it right to coerce them? Would it be right for the seventh-day people to coerce the Sunday keeper, if they were in the majority? The question answers itself. Leave the Sabbath question to the Bible, the church, the conscience, the individual soul. The state has no right to meddle with it in any way.