SUNDAY MADE PROMINENT by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 11, 1916

SUNDAY MADE PROMINENT

By Editor

Interwoven all through our national problems along reform lines, this Sunday question is continually made prominent; yet we search the Bible in vain from beginning to end for any evidence that Sunday is divinely ordained as a day of worship. On the other hand, we readily find, by studying the divine Book, that one of the plainest commandments in the Decalogue is the one that defines the Sabbath. Is it not evident, therefore, that the issue is fairly joined between a man-made institution and the divine commandment of Jehovah? The reader can see the clear, strong point that forms the great climax and conclusion given in the prophecy of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of Revelation, the reading of which is, "Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

God's commandments are thus made an issue in this increasingly strong controversy over the Sunday-law question. The human effort to substitute a man-made sabbath is directly confronted by the plain precept of Jehovah Himself. As was pointed out last week, the prophecy clearly announces that this controversy between Sunday and the Bible Sabbath will yet become a world-wide issue. The prophecy also makes it apparent that the commandments of God are the very center of the controversy. Study those commandments, and as the text suggests, permit the development of the patience of the saints; seek to gain the deep experiences of the faith of Jesus; and on this divinely appointed and sure foundation, we cannot possibly fail.