Working Together for Sabbath [Sunday] Observance by F. M. W.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 25, 1914

"Working Together for Sabbath [Sunday] Observance"

By F. M. W.

THIS is the heading of a report in the Indianapolis News of May 23 of the Presbyterian Assembly in session in that city. The News says:—

Cooperation with the Sabbath organizations of other Protestant denominations and with those of the Roman Catholic Church was urged today in the report of the Sabbath Observance Committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly in session here. These organizations in all Christian churches and the labor unions, are working together hand in hand, it was stated in the report of the committee as printed in the assembly bluebook, and the results of the cooperation may be seen in a long list of victories all over the world for cessation of Sunday work.

How strikingly do we see being fulfilled before our very eyes the prophecy of Revelation 13! It is revealed there that apostate Protestantism in the last days would create an image to the papal power of Rome and enforce the mark of that power; namely, the Sunday sabbath. While a wide gulf apparently separates between Catholicism and Protestantism today, and while at the present time we are in the throes of an agitation in which many Protestants are uniting in denouncing Rome's propaganda of her interests, this will prove only the flurry before the quiet, and some day will be brought about the union of all these forces against the truth of God.

Says the spirit of prophecy, in speaking of this union which the Scriptures foretell will take place:—

Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of Spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. Protestantism will yet stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of Spiritualism; she will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, our country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.

Let us not be deceived into a feeling of false security by the anti-Catholic agitation which is now sweeping over this country, imagining that conditions have changed, and that the purpose of Rome in the suppression of religious liberty in this country will never be realized. There are many men today who recognize Rome's purposes and are honestly and courageously opposing her advances. The time will come, however, when these men will either come to recognize that the basis of their opposition to the power of the beast must be in the giving of the third angel's message of Revelation 14, or from motives of personal interest and worldly policy they will unite with that power in opposition to the truth and people of God.

Let us take advantage of the opportunities now afforded, when men are willing to read and to study, to give them a knowledge of the issues involved in the last great controversy between truth and error.

F. M. W.