Abolished | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 24, 1865

Abolished.

Our Saviour when upon earth declared himself to be the Lord of the Sabbath. Hence, say the opponents of the Sabbath, he had power to abolish it, and hence, they continue with their gratuitous conclusions, he has abolished it. But we believe that the Lord on one occasion said to his disciples something like this: If I then, your Lord and Master have done so and so, ye ought also to follow my example. John xiii, 14. Christ here declares himself the Lord of his people. We presume that those who are so sanguine that Christ abolished the Sabbath because he declares himself its Lord, take him for their Lord also. We presume this is so, though we might almost be led sometimes to doubt it. But if so, there is a fatal discrepancy between their claim in this respect, and their argument in reference to the Sabbath. And if they will persist in using such an argument against the Sabbath, they must do one of two things, either concede that Christ is not their Lord; that they will not have him to reign over them, or acknowledge themselves abolished!