2440.-Observing the Sabbath by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 25, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 13.

2440.—Observing the Sabbath.

By Editor

Is it wrong for a Sabbath-keeper who is an engineer and electrician to operate an electric-light plant where work would have to be performed on the Sabbath?

A SUBSCRIBER.

We refer our querist to the commandment itself, Ex. 20:8-11, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." See the divine comment on that commandment in Isa. 58:13: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shalt honor Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord." This is God's own Sabbath law, and His own comment upon it.