2168.—Crops and the Sabbath.
Is it lawful for a man to violate the Sabbath commandment in order to save his crops? I. F. Answering in a general way, No. Read the command in Isa. 58:13. There are conceivable circumstances where it might be proper. They are not, however, for us to name. Questions purely of conscience must be settled by the individual, but if the individual carries out not only the letter but the spirit of the fourth commandment, he will not be brought in that condition where he will be tempted to disobey God. "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," reads the law; the thought is, remember it in order that we may keep it holy, not on the day of the Sabbath merely, but throughout the whole week. If man's work is planned for God, if man plans his work days with the Sabbath in view, there are very few cases indeed where his crops would be endangered by Sabbath storms or troubles. When men will learn to so yield to God that they will plan and arrange with Him, they will find that God will plan with them.