When our nation shall so abjure the principles of its government as to
enact
a Sunday law, Protestantism will in this act join hands with popery; it
will
be nothing else than giving life to the tyranny which has long been
eagerly
watching its op****tunity to spring again into active
despotism. --Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 712. {ChS 160.3}
By the decree of enforcing the institution of the Papacy in violation
of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from
righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf
to
grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to
clasp
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hands with Spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold
union,
our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a
Protestant and Republican government, and shall make provision for the
propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the
time has come for the marvelous working of Satan, and that the end is
near.--Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 451. {ChS 160.4}
The time is not far distant, when, like the early disciples, we shall
be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. As the siege
of
Jerusalem by the Roman armies was the signal for flight to the Judean
Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation, in the
decree enforcing the papal sabbath, will be a warning to us. It will then
be
time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones
for
retired homes in secluded places among the mountains.--Testimonies, vol.
5,
pp. 464, 465. {ChS 161.1}
Many With Blinded Eyes
There are many, even of those engaged in this movement for Sunday
enforcement, who are blinded to the results which will follow this action.
They do not see that they are striking directly against religious liberty.
There are many who have never understood the claims of the Bible Sabbath,
and the false foundation upon which the Sunday institution
rests.--Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 711. {ChS 161.2}
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