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The Fundamentals something more than ,a cash-register, something more than a pendulum swinging between his home and his business. In an ordinary lifetime of seventy years there are ten years of Sun days. Therefore the manner in which a man keeps those three thousand six hundred and forty Sabbaths will make its impress on the man’s life for all eternity. When a man says and thinks that he has a right to do as he pleases on the Lord’s Day, with no reference to the sacredness of the day, or its claims upon his soul, we may con clude that man has not accepted his Heavenly Father’s estir mate of the worth of a man. He assesses himself at a lower value. God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him. But the man says, “I will rub out the Divine lineaments. God started me on an immortal journey but I am satisfied to let it end in the graveyard.” There isn’t much use trying to reason with a man who puts the body first and last, who regards his face as a mere opening for the alimentary canal, and who allows the lower nature to pre side at the funeral of the higher. Man, do you think the Almighty God made a mistake when He started you on an eternal journey? Is your soul a joke? Has God not said: “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day and call the Sabbath a delight, holy of the Lord and honorable and shall honor Him in not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking thy own words, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” (Isa. 58:13, 14.) THE LAW OF LIBERTY There are those who say, “I f the Sabbath was made for man, why may he not do as he pleases with it?” Because it was made for man’s liberty, not for man’s license, and the highest liberty is always found in conformity to law. So
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