whether we should obey his commandments or seek our own temporal interests. If the believers in the truth are not sustained by their faith in these comparatively peaceful days, what will uphold them when the grand test comes and the decree goes forth against all those who worship the image of the beast and receive his mark and their foreheads are in their hands? This solemn period is not far off. Instead of becoming weak and irresolute, the people of God should be gathering strength and courage for the time of trouble. Circumstances will not justify anyone in working upon the Sabbath for the sake of worldly profit. If God excuses one man, he may excuse all. But says one, why may not a man who is poor work upon Sabbath to earn means for a livelihood when he might be, when he might, by so doing, be better able to support his family? Why may not other brethren, or all of us, keep the Sabbath only when it is convenient to do so? The voice from Sinai makes answer. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. God will visit with judgments those who profess to serve him and yet really serve mammon. Those who disregard the Lord's express injunction in order to advantage themselves are heaping future woe upon themselves. The people of God should inquire closely if they have not, like the Jews, made the temple of God a place of merchandise. Christ said, My father's house shall not be called a, shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. Brothers and sisters, there is no excuse when the Sunday law arrives that will get us around the issue of observing Sabbath and not observing Sunday. If we observe Sunday at that time period, we receive the mark of the beast. It's as simple and clear in the spirit of prophecy as any doctrine that you can find in the Bible. Review and Herald, April 27th, 1911. The time is not far distant when the test will come to every soul. The mark of the beast will be urged upon us. Those who have step-by-step yielded to worldly demands and conformed to worldly customs will not find it a hard matter to yield to the powers that be rather than subject themselves to derision, insult, threatened imprisonment, and death. The contest is between the commandments of God and the commandments of men. Brothers and sisters, there's no excuse for Seventh-day Adventists to not uphold the Sabbath during the Sunday law test. That's the end of the road for Adventism because it's at that point that the whole issue of Sabbath and Sunday is lifted before the world. And if a Seventh-day Adventist hasn't learned how to live and uphold the Sabbath by faith before that test, his time is run out because the test is underway. It's the time when the world, those in Babylon, are now going to look at this test as played out among God's people in the courts of the land and they're going to have a clear picture. It's not going to be confused