READ THE COMMANDMENT AGAIN.
THE word "Sabbath" is Hebrew for rest; the word is transferred into our language, not translated. Let us read the commandment in the light of the English: "Remember the Rest day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Rest of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Rest day, and hallowed it." In the obvious meaning of that language, so plain that it admits of no construction, it must be clearly evident to all that it is the keeping of the day that is enjoined of God, not an institution indefinite as to the day. It is the one day, the seventh of a cycle, the day of that cycle on which He rested, which He blessed and hallowed, because that in it He had rested. The law gives none occasion for quibbling or juggling. It is simple, plain, clear, specific. Why will not men keep the day which He, the great King of the universe, has so signally honored?