“The commandments of God should be proclaimed. They are still binding. The moral law has never been repealed. The ten commandments, as expounded by our Saviour, reaching to the purposes and thoughts of the heart, are still in force. Their vigor is not weakened by age, nor lessened by distance. Their demand for obedience upon us is as imperative as when they were first proclaimed amid the thunders and lightnings of Mount Sinai.” These remarks we find in the “Earnest Christian.” They have the ring of true Christianity in them. They should be endorsed by every earnest Christian. So truthful are such utterances as these, and so urgent is the need of them in this God-forgetting world, and in the present generation of world-loving professed Christians, we would fain proclaim them in thunder tones throughout the whole length and breadth of the land. And they sound all the better to us, coming from the source they do. For we are living in a time when outside of the immediate ranks of those who are specially proclaiming the “commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” Rev. xiv, 12, such sentiments as these are becoming exceedingly rare. And not only is such teaching becoming more and more infrequent, but the opposite of it is more and more frequently heard. How often we have to meet the severest opposition for proclaiming the commandments of God! How often it is declared that they are not binding; that the moral law has been repealed! And how often are the teachings of our Saviour instead of being regarded, as they truly are, an exposition of, or a comment upon, the ten commandments, called a new law, instituted in the place of the old! Why all this? The only reply we can give is, Because the claims of the law, when critically examined, are found to enjoin the seventh day of each week, as a day of rest and religious worship, instead of the first as now generally observed. Upon a somewhat careful consideration of the matter, we can give no other reason. And we base our conclusion upon the following facts. 1. No difference of opinion exists in regard to the sanctity and perpetuity of the law, until the Sabbath question is agitated. 2. Those who then receive the seventh-day Sabbath, the one enjoined in the law, retain their former views of the holiness, sanctity, and integrity of the law. 3. Those who reject the Sabbath, give up these views of the law. And 4. They make this change of views in regard to the law the basis of their rejection of the Sabbath. To what other conclusion, then, can we come than that it is to get rid of the Sabbath, that they thus reject the law, and enter upon their graceless and godless tirade against it? O fourth command, what trouble hast thou been? Source of vexation to the sons of men! How have they tugged and toiled with various plans To break thy power, and shirk thy just demands. Vast circuits they through logic’s fields have run, And found themselves at last where they begun. From the same article from which the above extract is quoted, we take the following in reference to the law which is no less to the point.