He Is Mistaken by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 37.

He Is Mistaken.

By Editor

A reader writes us from “Lindsly,” but does not give the State, in reference to what the SIGNS has said concerning Sunday laws and the stopping of baseball on that day. He refers us to Heb. 8:2, which he permits us to read for our instruction, “and not criticise God’s people for worshiping on the Lord Jesus Christ’s own day, and not the Jews.” Now Heb. 8:2 is good, as is every other text of Holy Writ, but it has little bearing on this question. We are not criticising a single soul for worshiping on the Lord’s day, or any day. He who loves God will worship—serve—him on all days. What we say is this: Let every man worship God according to the dictates of conscience, so long as he does not contravene the equal rights of all. The Sunday-keeper has no more right even to attempt to prevent the Sabbath-keeper from working or recreating on Sunday than has the Sabbath-keeper to prevent the Sunday-keeper from working on the Sabbath. As to what is the Lord’s own day his Word tells us. See Ex. 20:10; Isa. 58:13; Mark 2:28.