Brethren, are you really so wedded to this _majority principle_? Know,
then, that _God is a majority_; and that those that are with _me_ are
more than those that are with _you_. God's testimony is worth more
than that of all men. What though millions _have_ affirmed, that the
seventh day is NOT the Sabbath? _He_ hath left us this imperishable
testimony: "The seventh day IS the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." And
this is the testimony of the _greatest majority_ that ever gave
utterance to truth. But God hath not left himself without other
witnesses. Where are those myriads of angels who were present when
"the Sabbath was made for man?" Where are those "morning stars" who
"sang together," and those "sons of God" who "shouted for joy," when
our Father "laid the foundations of the earth?" They are not _now_
present with us, 'tis true, to bear their testimony; but they _will
be_ present, when you and I shall appear before the judgment seat of
Christ, to hear the decision of this controversy. And do you think
that you will then dare, on the authority of what is said in Acts
20:7, to lift up your hands, and swear "by Him that liveth forever and
ever," that the Sabbath has been "changed into the first day of the
week"--and that, too, in presence of those who saw the foundations of
the ancient Sabbath, like those of the earth itself, laid and balanced
upon God's eternal decree, and inwrought with the very stones of "the
everlasting hills?" No! No!! The Sabbath was one of those _pillars_ of
the ancient earth, which Christ, the Mediator, seized with the hand of
his omnipotence, and bare up, when "the earth and all its inhabitants"
were sinking into nothing. I repeat it--and who dare gainsay it?--the
Lord of Hosts is an overwhelming _majority_!
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