Is God Less Wise than Men?
By Editor
Not long since we listened to a sermon on the Sabbath question in which the preacher took eminently scriptural grounds for the origin and perpetuity of the Sabbath, and cited many facts and quoted many authors as to its physical necessity. But he contended that the divine law of the Sabbath demanded no definite day, any day after six of work was all that God commanded; but strange to say, the same gentleman contended that there ought to be a Sunday law to establish a definite day in order to save from confusion! That is, God did wisely and well in appointing a sabbath for man; but He made a great mistake in not appointing a definite day; therefore the men of the twentieth century should supplement God's wisdom and make the day definite. Put in another way: God made the day neither definite nor holy; human wisdom will supply both defects. Is man wiser than God? "Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar." The last news from Philadelphia is that there is no compromise or arbitration on foot in the strike; both are refused; 125,000 in various trades unions join in the strike; merchants are begging for settlement; 8,000 employees are laid off by them, and it is said $2,000,000 has been lost since the trouble started. The city itself is in chaos.