2112.—What Shall I Do?
By Editor
I know according to the teachings of Christ that Saturday, the seventh day, is the Sabbath day, but am I not safe in going on and observing Sunday conscientiously as the majority do, since I am not responsible for the day having been changed long ago by wicked men? H. Let us ask our inquirer and others some heart-to-heart questions. Ought we to put a question in such a form as this? The Biblical question of a sinful person is: "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" God always will answer such a question as that thru His word and His servants. Ought we to change the meaning of the question and say, "Lord, what can I get rid of doing and still be saved?" Do you not see that there is all the difference in the world between the two questions? The one is a question of the really unselfish servant of the Master, and the other a question of wholly selfish interests on our part? Which of these questions does our correspondent wish to ask? The psalmist says, "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto Thy testimonies. I made haste, and delayed not to observe Thy commandments." How many would there be observing the first day of the week to-day if they all had the same disposition that the psalmist had? He found his ways wrong, God's ways right, and he made haste to do the Lord's way. Ps. 119:56, 60. Read verses 5, 6, 8, 10, 32, 34, and also the prediction of the Master, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:8. What would our querist think if a man should pay a debt with a counterfeit bill and when he was told that it was a counterfeit bill, he should say, "I know that that is so, but I am not responsible for its being made by evil men, nor am I responsible that it has been passed again and again. I received it as genuine!"? Would not our querist say, "But you know it now, and as you have learned it you certainly can not pass that as good money, so laying yourself liable to all the penalties of the law for passing counterfeit money, even tho you lose the amount"? Are not the laws of God as sacred and so worthy to be regarded as the laws of men? Really, would we consider that a heart was worth saving that would selfishly disregard the wishes of its Saviour, especially when those wishes were the expression of all that is highest and best for His child.