its observance. Perhaps a sermon or two on the Sabbath question will be of interest to the reader, showing how people were led to forsake the traditions and institutions of men to keep the commandments of the Lord.

Sabbath Sermon

"MY FRIENDS: This evening we have come together to consider the Sabbath questions. There are two days before the people, claiming to be the Sabbath of the Lord. They cannot both be genuine, for God does not require two holy Sabbaths in every week. One must be genuine, the other counterfeit. Which is genuine? which is counterfeit? Is it hard to tell? The seventh-day Sabbath came from God.

Did a counterfeit or a fraud come from God? Hardly. God rested on the seventh day; God blessed and sanctified it. Gen. 2: 1- 3. Not only so, but God proclaimed with His own voice. 'The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.'

He did more. The Divine Being wrote with His own finger on the table of stone. 'The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.' Thus the seventh-day Sabbath bears upon it the blessing, sanctification, and superscription of Almighty God. You would be ashamed to ask for more proof of its genuineness.

"What about Sunday, the first day of the week?

'Sunday, so called, because anciently it was dedicated to the sun, or its worship.' --- Webster.

The heathen worshiped a counterfeit god (sun) on a counterfeit day (Sunday), while God's people worshiped the true God on His true, holy Sabbath. Thus it is certain that anciently Sunday was a counterfeit institution, and the seventh day was the genuine Lord's day.

Now you say the Lord has changed all this; what was once the genuine has become the counterfeit, and what was once the