The Law of God by H. S. Gurney

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1864

The Law of God.

By H. S. Gurney

BRO. WHITE: "Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them." "The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul." Yes, says an apostle, I delight in it.

A friend writes to me—a professed Adventist, but associates with those who endorse friend Preble's articles on the law—and says, "The keeping of the Sabbath destroys the life of religion in the soul." Poor man! What a show of ignorance and darkness! Who can tell why keeping the seventh-day Sabbath, should kill religion in the soul more than keeping the First-day. I can testify in truth, that I did not fully understand the foundation of religious principles until I kept the seventh-day Sabbath, which was about nineteen years ago. I think this is long enough to test the above quoted sentence.

Thank God I still live, and delight in the law of God after the inward man. I feel a power in these words, "Great peace have they that love thy law." I make haste to keep God's commandments. Blessed are they that do them; they shall have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city.

The third angel's message has corrected our errors in the advent cause, and has placed our feet on a rock, and filled our mouth with praise. And we will praise the Lord.

We see Jesus in the heavenly sanctuary pleading to blot out, not the law of his Father, but our transgression of that law.

Some seem to think if they can leave all in the hands of God, and then do nothing, it will be well enough. But I do not choose to do things in that way. There is a work for us to do, and I want to understand that work and have it done faithfully.

H. S. GURNEY. Jackson, Mich.