Sunday Sabbath and Human Law

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

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Sunday Sabbath and Human Law

Why will men presumably versed in the Scriptures call Sunday the Sabbath? Why will they make a plea for Sunday laws on the ground that God commanded that day, when they know He did not? And even tho God did command Sunday, why should there be a law to enforce the day? God has commanded men everywhere to repent. Why not enforce repentance? God has enjoined faith. Why not enforce belief? The Lord's Supper is a divine institution. Why not compel its observance? All these can be enforced by law as well as can the Sabbath. Because God's command is not merely a forbidding to work upon a day; it is that man shall keep holy a holy day. No human law can make a day holy, or enforce its observance. Only holy men can keep a holy day holy.