GOD'S REST DAY UNCHANGED.
By H. C. GILES
GOD changes not. One of God's attributes is rest. God's law is but the reflection of Himself. The Sabbath precept is simply the revelation of the Creator's attribute of rest, reflected earthward "for man." If God had changed the Sabbath, it would mean the changing of one of His attributes, which is impossible. The Gospel is rest. Matt. 11:28. The Gospel is God's power to create anew. Eph. 2:10. That brings rest. The seventh-day Sabbath is the sign of that rest. Ex. 31:13, 15. Therefore the seventh-day Sabbath is the sign of the Gospel. Hence no other sabbath is needed. God's power to save man is the Gospel. Rom. 1:16. He has no other. So also He has no other Sabbath for man than that in the seventh day. When man is redeemed finally, he will be upheld by the same Almighty power. God's Sabbath of rest in the seventh day, therefore, will be observed by the redeemed throughout eternity. Isa. 66:22. A change of the Sabbath is, therefore, not only impossible, but unnecessary. Hence God has never made it, and all that could be done by any power is to "think" to change it, and that the Papacy has done. But the Sabbath, tho trodden down by apostasy, still remains unaltered. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." Heb. 4:9. God's Sabbath of rest in the seventh day, instituted at creation, still remains for His people, and will continue to be observed by them as the blessed and hallowed channel through which the Creator's blessings will flow in continuous and refreshing streams to His children throughout the ages of eternity.