Why Not Found Out Before
By I. C. Colcord
THE truth of the Bible is like gold in the earth. Many generations may walk over deposits of valuable mineral and know not what treasures are hidden beneath their feet. Likewise centuries of men may glance over the sacred page and know not what riches lie hidden from their intellectual apprehension. Sometimes when they discover them they call them new truths. One might as well call gold, newly dug, new gold. But it is the same genuine article that has been there pocketed away for these many years, with its luster undimmed, and its intrinsic value undiminished. And so it is with this unsullied word of God that has stood and will stand the test of the ages. "Thy word is true from the beginning." Mark 2: 28 says, "The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." Ex. 20: 10 says the seventh day is the Sabbath. Here are two plain statements of Scripture which may form the premises of a syllogism thus: The Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath. The seventh day is the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of man is Lord of the seventh day. Forming another of which the above conclusion shall be the minor premise, we have this: Whatever day it is of which the Son of man is Lord, is the Lord's day. The Son of man is Lord of the seventh day. Therefore the Lord's day is the seventh day. Though years have gone down into the past, the original Sabbath, coming on the seventh day of the cycle of the week, or the Lord's day — for they are synonymous — is still the same identical hallowed day of observance and commemoration. This is not "new gold," nor a "new truth," but it is pure gold and a Biblical truth. Let us not pass over the hidden treasures.