3922 - Within Thy Gates by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 46.

3922 — Within Thy Gates

By Editor

Is it right to let thrashers, that own their own machines and hire their own help, thrash on your farm on the Sabbath?

No, not if you are running the farm. If that farm is rented to some one else, of course that individual practically owns that farm during that length of time. But if you are in control of the farm, the commandment applies to all "within thy gates." It is in a way saying to the world that while I don't work myself, I am employing others to do it. We do not see how it could be possible for one to hire his thrashing done, even tho he did it by the job, without having his mind upon it during that time, and the commandment very clearly covers the point.