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Sunday Missionary Work, June 19
Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince,
rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
2
Timothy 4:2
, R.S.V.
To defy the Sunday laws will but strengthen in their persecution the
religious zealots who are seeking to enforce them. Give them no occasion
to call you lawbreakers. If they are left to rein up men who fear neither God
nor man, the reining up will soon lose its novelty for them, and they will
see that it is not consistent nor convenient for them to be strict in regard to
the observance of Sunday. Keep right on with your missionary work, with
your Bibles in your hands, and the enemy will see that he has worsted his
own cause. One does not receive the mark of the beast because he shows
that he realizes the wisdom of keeping the peace by refraining from work
that gives offense, doing at the same time a work of the highest importance.
When we devote Sunday to missionary work, the whip will be taken out
of the hands of the arbitrary zealots who would be well pleased to humiliate
Seventh-day Adventists....
Sunday can be used for carrying forward various lines of work that
will accomplish much for the Lord. On this day open- air meetings and
cottage meetings can be held. House-to-house work can be done. Those
who write can devote this day to writing their articles. Whenever it is
possible, let religious services be held on Sunday. Make these meetings
intensely interesting. Sing genuine revival hymns, and speak with power
and assurance of the Saviour’s love. Speak on temperance and on true
religious experience. You will thus learn much about how to work, and will
reach many souls....
The law for the observance of the first day of the week is the production
of an apostate Christendom. Sunday is a child of the Papacy, exalted by the
Christian world above the sacred day of God’s rest. In no case are God’s
people to pay it homage. But I wish them to understand that they are not
doing God’s will by braving opposition when He wishes them to avoid it.
Wonderful scenes are opening before us; and at this time a living tes-
timony is to be borne in the lives of God’s professed people, so that the
world may see that in this age, when evil reigns on every side, there is yet a
people who are laying aside their will and are seeking to do God’s will—a
people in whose hearts and lives God’s law is written.
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