Robbed of Their Sabbath
By Editor
"Robbed of Their Sabbath."—The advocates of enforced Sunday observance have a stereotyped saying that "three million people are being robbed of their sabbath in the United States." There are just two classes of people that are being robbed in this respect, namely, those whom Satan has kept from access to the Word of God, and those who have been led by false teachers to believe that the Sabbath of the Bible has been superseded by the man-made first-day sabbath. These two classes comprise many times three million. By the "three million" whom it is alleged are "robbed of their sabbath" is meant men whose employment calls for their labor every day, especially on Sunday. But no man is compelled to labor either on the Sabbath or on Sunday. The man who chooses to labor on the Sabbath rather than give up his situation is not robbed. He simply chooses to serve mammon rather than God. The commandment of God says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord." The service of God includes keeping the Sabbath. "Ye can not serve God and mammon," therefore "choose ye this day whom ye will serve." But if you work on any day for a consideration, you have no just claim that you are thereby being robbed by the one whom you are voluntarily serving with a full knowledge of the situation.