Question Corner by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 5, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 17.

Question Corner

By Editor

WE can not answer repeatedly in the same volume questions upon the same scripture. The name and address must accompany question. It is well always to enclose stamp for reply.

4301 — CONFRONTING DIFFICULTIES IN SABBATH KEEPING

My husband is convinced that he should keep the Sabbath; but since he is working for a Sunday keeper, he would doubtless lose his position, and is afraid that he might not be able to make a living for himself and family. What should he do? W. S.

The danger lies in continuing the course that your husband is now pursuing. We are liable at any time, if we are depending merely upon the arm of flesh, to be thrown out of work; but God's promise is: "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; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." Isa. 58: 13, 14. That promise of God has behind it all of the power by which He upholds His entire universe, and that promise can not fail. We can stand upon it, and know that we will never go down.

Another one of the great promises from this book of Isaiah says: "He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; he shall dwell on high: his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Thine eyes shall

see the King in His beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off." Isa. 33: 15-17. Such promises as this in the heart of the individual are stronger than all the difficulties that can combine to confront him. They raise him above the sporting winds of circumstances, and thrill his heart with the hope of seeing "the King in His beauty," because he is walking in the highway of the great King's commandments. One of the saddest mistakes that men can make is to fear to trust God.