No wonder that with the coming of the latter days, and the proclamation of the message of preparation for Christ's second coming, there should come a call to Christians to follow Christ and Holy Scripture in keeping God's holy Sabbath. Again the voice of Jesus is heard in protest against traditions that make void the commandment of God. "Every plant," He says, "which My heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." Matt. 15:13. Made for Man The God that made the earth, And all the worlds on high, Who gave all creatures birth, In earth, and sea, and sky, After six days in work employed, Upon the seventh a rest enjoyed. The Sabbath day was blessed, Hallowed, and sanctified; It was Jehovah's rest, And so it must abide; 'Twas set apart before the fall, 'Twas made for man, 'twas made for all. And when from Sinai's mount, Amidst the fire and smoke, Jehovah did recount, And all His precepts spoke, He claimed the rest day as His own, And wrote it with His law on stone. The Son of God appeared With tidings of great joy; God's precepts He revered, He came not to destroy; None of the law was set aside, But every tittle ratified. Our Saviour did not die To render null and void The law of the Most High, Which cannot be destroyed; But, bruised for us, our stripes He bore,-- We'll go in peace and sin no more. --_R.F. Cottrell._ [Illustration: CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES IN THE CORN-FIELDS "The Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." Matt. 12:8.] [Illustration: RETURNING FROM THE SAVIOUR'S TOMB "They returned,... and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." Luke 23:56.] GLIMPSES OF SABBATH KEEPING AFTER NEW TESTAMENT TIMES Not at once did the innovation of Sunday observance set aside the Sabbath of the Lord in the practice of even the general church. And through history, when the general church had fallen away, we catch glimpses here and there of faithful witnesses to God's holy Sabbath truth. First Centuries An old English writer, Professor Brerewood, of Gresham College, London, put in shortest phrase what many writers say: "They know little who do not know that the ancient Sabbath did remain and was observed by the Eastern churches three hundred years after our Saviour's passion."--_"Treatise on the Sabbath," p. 77._ Fourth Century Canon 29, of the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), shows that the ecclesiastical system was laboring to put an end to Sabbath keeping: