p. 10 | Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 2, 1914

Note and Comment

The Sabbath Institution

SPEAKING of the institution of the Sabbath and its observance in the different periods of the world's history, the Religious Telescope of March 11, 1914, declares:—

The Sabbath was instituted for the temporal and eternal welfare of the race, and may not be desecrated, much less removed as a guide and guard to human health and happiness, as some are seeking to do, without serious loss to those who fail to keep it holy. Its law is a part of the life of men; and, as long as they exist, its restful reign will be an imperative need in the heart, in the home, and in the nation. It came before the decalogue, and dates back to the creation of man. It is said that "traces of its strict and sacred observance in the ancestral home of Abraham are disclosed in the Assyrian records unearthed in these later days." Centuries after it was originally instituted, it appeared again as the fourth commandment in the decalogue, was renewed a second time on tables of stone, and finally fulfilled in and by Christ himself, who is Lord of the Sabbath.