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The Duty of Church-Going

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 30.

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The Duty of Church-Going

Few people—even among those who have had a Christian training in youth—have any conception that church-going is in any sense a duty. If they can enjoy the service they go, otherwise they stay at home. They decide the whole question, about as they decide whether they will go to a concert or a lecture. As to their owing any duty to themselves or to God in the matter, that idea seems never so much as to occur to them. Somebody must be responsible for this lack of conviction. Is there enough teaching in the family and from the pulpit of the duty of church-going? Do not even Christian people regard it as an optional thing, to be done or not as the whim siezes them? The empty pews of the churches give an eloquent answer to these questions.