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350the TRUTH, the whole TRUTH, and nothing but the TRUTHBut the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thoushalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thymanservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that iswithin thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, thesea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore theLORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.Life Sketches, pp. 95-96Elder Bates was resting upon Saturday, the seventh day of the week,and he urged it upon our attention as the true Sabbath. I did not feel itsimportance, and thought that he erred in dwelling upon the fourthcommandment more than upon the other nine.But the Lord gave me a view of the heavenly sanctuary. The temple ofGod was open in heaven, and I was shown the ark of God covered withthe mercy seat. Two angels stood one at either end of the ark, with theirwings spread over the mercy seat, and their faces turned toward it. This,my accompanying angel informed me, represented all the heavenly hostlooking with reverential awe toward the law of God, which had beenwritten by the finger of God.Jesus raised the cover of the ark, and I beheld the tables of stone onwhich the ten commandments were written. I was amazed as I saw thefourth commandment in the very center of the ten precepts, with a softhalo of light encircling it. Said the angel, "It is the only one of the tenwhich defines the living God who created the heavens and the earth andall things that are therein."When the foundations of the earth were laid, then was also laid thefoundation of the Sabbath. I was shown that if the true Sabbath had beenkept, there would never have been an infidel or an atheist. Theobservance of the Sabbath would have preserved the world from idolatry.Counsels on Health, p. 491When thinking men find that our restaurants are closed on the Sabbath,they will make inquiries in regard to the principles that lead us to closeour doors on Saturday. In answering their questions we shall haveopportunity to acquaint them with the reasons for our faith. We can givethem copies of our periodicals and tracts, so that they may be able tounderstand the difference between "him that serveth God and him thatserveth Him not."Manuscript Releases, Vol. 17, p. 79The temptation will come. If you keep the Sabbath, the very day thefourth commandment has specified, you shall have to give up this sourceof gain. You shall have to close your business on Saturday, the busiestand most profitable day in the week. And when you hesitate to complywith a plain "Thus saith the Lord," because you will lose profit, andriches will not increase unto you, you continue in disobedience to Godand bow the knee to Satan as he tempted Christ to do.The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4, p. 180