"THE MORAL BASIS OF THE SABBATH."
The Central Baptist (St. Louis) takes three columns to prove that there is a "moral basis" to the Sabbath. It does not need three lines to prove that there is a positively religious basis on which the Sabbath law and Sabbath observance rest, if men believe the Bible and are willing to obey. It is pitiful that Christian men have so long talked of "civil sabbaths," "rest days," etc., that they must now struggle to prove that morality is a factor in Sabbath keeping. The Sabbath rests wholly on a religious basis. Obedience to its demands, as God has set them forth, brings subordinate blessings. But you cannot begin with these subordinate results and attain the true idea of the Sabbath, nor its legitimate religious results. If the Baptist will obey the Bible, as Baptists profess to, it will not be compelled to write three columns to prove that there is a moral basis under the Sabbath. Of course there is none for Sunday; that is what ails the Baptist. No effort to steal Sinai and make it the basis of the semi-pagan Sunday has ever been successful, and that sort of theft is especially difficult for Baptists to accomplish.—Evangel and Sabbath Outlook.