The Command for keeping Sunday.
By John Nevins Andrews
THIS much needed precept, has been sought with extraordinary diligence by those who "love the rest of man's invention" better than the holy of the Lord and honorable, the Rest-day of Jehovah. Driven to the utmost extremity they have been obliged to admit that the New Testament, which they say teaches the institution of a new Sabbath, does not contain any commandment for the observance of that day. Heretofore we have pointed out their fraudulent attempt to seize the fourth commandment. In this note we call attention to the fact that that commandment is the only precept in the Bible which tells us how to keep the first day of the week. That precept says: "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work." Whoever obeys the only precept for Sunday-keeping in the Bible, will commence labor on the first day of the week, just as God did, and when the Rest-day of the Lord arrives, they will cease from labor, and observe it according to the commandment. Whoever wishes to obey God in the observance of Sunday, can here find his will plainly expressed.