I Have Decided by S. Myers

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 23, 1858

I Have Decided.

By S. Myers

We hear people say often of late, I have decided upon the Sabbath, I have investigated the subject, and am decided; but when we ask them what conclusion they have come to, we can scarcely find any two that have come to the same conclusion, or reason from the same premises; but all seem willing, yea, anxious, to believe the observance of the seventh day as a Sabbath is no part of a christian's duty. It does appear that if there is more of the wine of the wrath of Babylon's fornication in one of her abominations than another, she has mixed more in the Sunday institution than any other. Such reeling, staggering, zigzagging, crooking, and twisting we have never witnessed on any other subject; and all to excuse themselves from obeying one of the plainest and most necessary precepts of the law of God. Do such realize that it is in vain to worship God while teaching for doctrine the commandments of men? Do such realize that Jesus has said, "Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven," and that the Father's will is learned out of the law? Rom. ii, 18.

How solemn the thought that people will decide with so little reference to the future, on subjects where eternal consequences hang upon their decisions. But this is nothing new. The antediluvians all decided; but how few decided in such a manner as to save themselves from the impending destruction. The inhabitants of the cities of the plain all decided; but only three made such a decision as saved them from the wrath of God. The Jews decided when Jesus and the apostles preached to them; but alas! how few decided so as to save themselves from the ruin that hung over them and their city. And almost all the inhabitants of the earth have decided, and most of them deliberately decided, in matters of eternal consequences;

but if the Bible is to be the standard by which the world is to be judged, how few have made such a decision as they will wish they had when their future destiny is made known to them! Oh! that people would manifest more of wisdom and the fear of God in their decisions on subjects where fatal consequences are to result from a wrong decision.

S. MYERS.

Plumb River, Ills.