The Seventh Day is the Sabbath:
By Susan Elmer
As these words were spoken by the eternal God amidst the thunderings and lightnings of mount Sinai, they may not be revoked or altered. Behold the Almighty descending in a fiery flame, the smoke ascending as from a burning furnace. Mount Sinai quakes as if convulsed by an earthquake, louder and louder sounds the mighty trumpet, the people gaze with awe and wonder, but are not permitted to come near. At God's command bounds are set around the mount, and it is sanctified. Thus the great Jehovah proclaimed his holy law. Thus he sealed his everlasting covenant. It is sacred in the eyes of the Almighty, it is sacred in those of the angels; and how sacred should it be in the sight of man for whom it was given! What a sacred trust is committed to him! How vast the responsibility that rests upon him! What blessings are pronounced upon him if he obeys! What curses if he disobeys! We read that the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousness, unto children's children to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his Commandments to do them; and David says all his Commandments are sure, they stand fast forever and ever. We see by reading the 23d verse of the last chapter of Isaiah, that the same Sabbath is to be kept in the new earth. Without further proof, although there is much more, we see that the Sabbath stands the same as at the beginning. The Lord will magnify the Law and make it honorable. Although people oppose ever so much, the Lord will repair the breach that has been made in his holy law, and soon the cry shall go forth with far more power than heretofore, The seventh day is the Sabbath. God's truth that has been so often rejected shall go with more than mortal energy; for to it is promised the Spirit of the Eternal. O glorious day, much to be desired! Then the Spirit of Elijah's God shall rest with mighty power upon his people. And now while the messengers are searching for the scattered jewels, may it be our prayer that they be endowed with power and wisdom from on high. Theirs is a high and holy calling; a solemn charge is entrusted to them; they stand between the living and the dead; they have gone up into the gaps to repair the breach that the people may be prepared to stand in the day of battle; and while they go forth weeping, bearing precious seed, they will return again with joy bringing their sheaves with them. But O, ye careless ones, who reject the solemn warning! Remember it is the last that you shall hear! How can you answer in that fearful day for the solemn and heart searching truth that you have opposed? You heard the sound of the trumpet, but took not the alarm. O be entreated by one that loves your souls to fall in with the overtures of mercy now before it is too late; now, before the warning voice is forever hushed; now, while the Saviour is pleading for you; now, while sweet mercy lingers, make your peace with God by keeping all his Commandments, that when the inhabitants of the earth are consumed for breaking the everlasting covenant, you may be among those that are left, and with them inherit eternal life. SUSAN ELMER.