I have seen how the blind guides were laboring to make souls as
blind as themselves, little realizing what is coming upon them.
They are exalting themselves against the truth, and as it triumphs,
many who have looked on these teachers as men of God and have
looked to them for light, are troubled. They inquire of these
leaders relative to the Sabbath, and they, with the object of
getting rid of the fourth commandment, will answer them thereto.
I saw that real honesty was not regarded in taking the many positions
that were taken against the Sabbath. The main object is to get
around the Sabbath of the Lord and observe another day than that
sanctified and hallowed by Jehovah. If they are driven from one
position, they take an opposite one, even a position that they
had but just before condemned as unsound.
God's people are coming into the unity of the faith. Those who
observe the Sabbath of the Bible are united in their views of
Bible truth. But those who oppose the Sabbath among the Advent
people are disunited and strangely divided. One comes forward
in opposition to the Sabbath and declares it to be thus and so,
and at the conclusion calls it settled. But as his effort does
not put the question to rest, and as the Sabbath cause progresses
and the children of the Lord still embrace it, another comes forward
to overthrow it. But in presenting his views to get around the
Sabbath, he entirely tears down the arguments of him who made
the first effort against the truth, and presents a theory as opposite
to his as to ours. So with the third and the fourth; but none
of them will have it as it stands in the Word of God: "The
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God."
Such, I saw, have the carnal mind, therefore are not subject to
the holy law of God. They are not agreed among themselves, yet
labor hard with their inferences to wrest the Scriptures to make
a breach in God's law, to change, abolish, or do anything with
the fourth commandment rather than to observe it. They wish to
silence the flock upon this question; therefore they get up something
with the hope that it will quiet them and that many of their followers
will search their Bibles so little that their leaders can easily
make error appear like truth, and they receive it as such, not
looking higher than their leaders. -