Chapter 14—Religious Liberty
An Appropriate Prayer
David prayed, “It is time for Thee, Lord, to work: for they have
made void Thy law.” This prayer is no less pertinent at the present
time. The world has gone astray from God, and its lawless state should
strike terror to the heart, and lead all who are loyal to the great King
to work for a reformation. The papal power has thought to change the
law of God by substituting a spurious Sabbath for that of Jehovah; and
all through the religious world the false sabbath is revered, while the
true one is trampled beneath unholy feet....
It is on the law of God that the last great struggle of the controversy
between Christ and His angels and Satan and his angels will come,
and it will be decisive for all the world.... Men in responsible positions
will not only ignore and despise the Sabbath themselves, but from
the sacred desk will urge upon the people the observance of the first
day of the week, pleading tradition and custom in behalf of this man-
made institution. They will point to calamities on land and sea—to
the storms of wind, the floods, the earthquakes, the destruction by
fire—as judgments indicating God’s displeasure because Sunday is
not sacredly observed. These calamities will increase more and more,
one disaster will follow close upon the heels of another; and those
who make void the law of God will point to the few who are keeping
the Sabbath of the fourth commandment as the ones who are bringing
wrath upon the world. This falsehood is Satan’s device that he may
ensnare the unwary.—
The Southern Watchman, June 28, 1904
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Coming Events
Our people have been regarded as too insignificant to be worthy of
notice; but a change will come. The Christian world is now making
movements which will necessarily bring commandment-keeping peo-
ple into prominence. There is a constant supplanting of God’s truth
by the theories and false doctrines of human origin. Movements are
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