Today software patents threaten to end the progress of technology altogether.  And earth saving technologies are banned from production by companies who have purchased the rights to them.  God put mankind in charge of the care and keeping of this earth.  Yet we evidently have not the slightest twinge of conscience while lending support, by our silence, to a system that is concerned only with financial gain...knowing full well that the earth and its inhabitants will be the casualties.

If you agree with me, then let your voice be heard in Congress!   Start writing letters!
 

The following section is a book that hope to publish very soon:

 

My Jesus

 

 

 

 

“My Jesus, I love Thee.  I know Thou art mine!

 

  For Thee all the follies of sin I resign!

 

  My Gracious Redeemer, My Savior art Thou!

 

  If ever I loved Thee, My Jesus, ‘tis now!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.  1 John 1:9 KJV

 

 

 

 

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves.  He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share.  He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His.  ‘With His stripes we are healed’.

 

  By His life and His death, Christ has achieved even more than recovery from the ruin wrought through sin.  It was Satan’s purpose to bring about an eternal separation between God and man; but in Christ we become more closely united than if we had never fallen.  In taking our nature, the Savior bound Himself to humanity by a tie that is never to be broken.  Through the eternal ages He is linked with us.  ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.’  John 3:16  He gave Him not only to bear our sins and to die as our Sacrifice; He gave Him to the fallen race.  To assure us of His immutable counsel of peace, God gave His only begotten Son to become one of the human family, forever to retain His human nature.  This is the pledge that God will fulfill His word, ‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder.’  God has adopted human nature in the person of His Son, and has carried the same into the highest heaven.  It is the ‘Son of Man’ who shares the throne of the universe.  It is the ‘Son of Man’ whose name shall be called, ‘Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.’  Isaiah 9:6”  “Desire of Ages”, page 25 by Ellen G. White

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“If ye love Me, keep my commandments.  And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but you know him: for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you”.  John 14:15-17 (KJV)

 

 

“And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.  He that saith I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.  But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby we know that we are in Him.  He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.”  1 John 2:3-6 (KJV)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The First Commandment (verse 3)

 

Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

 

 

The Second Commandment (verses 4, 5, and 6)

 

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I The Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the 3^rd and 4^th generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me and keep my commandments.  (There’s that same principle again “Love for God = keeping His commandments”)

 

 

The Third Commandment (verse 7)

 

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

 

 

The Fourth Commandment (verses 8-11)

 

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy (this is where most people stop).  Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: but THE SEVENTH DAY is THE SABBATH of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed THE SABBATH day, and hallowed it.

 

 

(Please take note that the 4^th commandment is the only one where God has placed a special “seal of authority” specifying His Name, His title, and the territory over which He rules.  Without that seal “in tact” the authority and meaning of the entire Ten Commandments is lost.)

 

 

The Fifth Commandment (verse 12)

 

Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

 

 

The Sixth Commandment (verse 13)

 

Thou shalt not kill.

 

 

The Seventh Commandment (verse 14)

 

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

 

 

The Eighth Commandment (verse 15)

 

Thou shalt not steal.

 

 

The Ninth Commandment (verse 16)

 

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

 

 

The Tenth Commandment (verse 17)

 

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Catholic Mirror, September 2, 1893

 

....[The Christian Seventh-day Sabbath keepers] are the only body of Christians with the Bible as their teacher, who can find no warrant in its pages for the change of day from the Seventh to the first....Their cardinal principle consists in setting apart Saturday for the exclusive worship of God, in conformity with the positive command of God Himself, repeatedly reiterated in the sacred books of the Old and New Testaments, literally obeyed by the children of Israel for thousands of years to this day, and indorsed by the teaching and practice of the Son of God whilst on earth. 

 

 

 

Hence the conclusion is inevitable; viz., that of those who follow the Bible as their guide, the Israelites and the [Christian Seventh-day Sabbath keepers]...have the exclusive weight of evidence on their side, whilst the Biblical Protestant has not a word in self-defense for his substitution of Sunday for Saturday. More anon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Catholic Mirror, September 23, 1893

CONCLUSION 

We have in this series of articles, taken much pains for the instruction of our readers to prepare them by presenting a number of undeniable facts found in the word of God to arrive at a conclusion absolutely irrefragable. When the Biblical system put in an appearance in the sixteenth century, it not only seized on the temporal possessions of the Church, but in its vandalic crusade stripped Christianity, as far as it could, of all the sacraments instituted by its Founder, of the holy sacrifice, etc., etc., retaining nothing but the Bible, which its exponents pronounced their sole teacher in Christian doctrine and morals. 

Chief amongst their articles of belief was, and is today, the permanent necessity of keeping the Sabbath holy. In fact, it has been for the past 300 years the only article of the Christian belief in which there has been a plenary consensus of Biblical representatives. The keeping of the Sabbath constitutes the sum and substance of the Biblical theory. The pulpits resound weekly with incessant tirades against the lax manner of keeping the Sabbath in Catholic countries, as contrasted with the proper, Christian, self-satisfied mode of keeping the day in Biblical countries. Who can ever forget the virtuous indignation manifested by the Biblical preachers throughout the length and breadth of our country, from every Protestant pulpit, as long as the question of opening the World’s Fair on Sunday was yet undecided; and who does not know today, that one sect, to mark its holy indignation at the decision, has never yet opened the boxes that contained its articles at the World’s Fair? 

These superlatively good and unctuous Christians, by conning over their Bible carefully, can find their counterpart in a certain class of unco-good people in the days of the Redeemer, who haunted Him night and day, distressed beyond measure, and scandalized beyond forbearance, because He did not keep the Sabbath in as straight-laced manner as themselves. 

They hated Him for using common sense in reference to the day, and He found no epithets expressive enough of His supreme contempt for their Pharisaical pride. And it is very probable that the divine mind has not modified its views today anent the blatant outcry of their followers and sympathizers at the close of this nineteenth century. But when we add to all this the fact that whilst the Pharisees of old kept the true Sabbath, our modern Pharisees, counting on the credulity and simplicity of their dupes, have never once in their lives kept the true Sabbath which their divine Master kept to His dying day, and which His apostles kept, after His example, for thirty years afterward, according to the Sacred Record, the most glaring contradiction, involving a deliberate sacrilegious rejection of a most positive precept, is presented to us today in the action of the Biblical Christian world. The Bible and the Sabbath constitute the watchword of Protestantism; but we have demonstrated that it is the Bible against their Sabbath. We have proved that no greater contradiction ever existed than their theory and practice. We have proved that neither their Biblical ancestors nor themselves have ever kept one Sabbath day in their lives. 

The Israelites and [Seventh-day Sabbath keeping Christians]...are witnesses of their weekly desecration of the day named by God so repeatedly, and whilst they have ignored and condemned their teacher, the Bible, they have adopted a day kept by the Catholic Church. What Protestant can, after perusing these articles, with a clear conscience, continue to disobey the command of God, enjoining Saturday to be kept, which command his teacher, the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, records as the will of God? 

The history of the world cannot present a more stupid, self-stultifying specimen of dereliction of principle than that. The teacher demands emphatically in every page that the law of the Sabbath be observed every week, by all recognizing it as “the only infallible teacher,” whilst the disciples of that teacher have not once for over three hundred years observed the divine precept! That immense concourse of Biblical Christians, the Methodists, have declared that the Sabbath has never been abrogated, whilst the followers of the Church of England, together with her daughter, the Episcopal Church of the United States, are committed by the twentieth article of religion, already quoted, to the ordinance that the Church cannot lawfully ordain anything “contrary to God’s written word.” God’s written word enjoins His worship to be observed on Saturday absolutely, repeatedly, and most emphatically, with a most positive threat of death to him who disobeys. All the Biblical sects occupy the same self-stultifying positions which no explanation can modify, much less justify. 

How truly do the words of the Holy Spirit apply to this deplorable situation! “Iniquitas mentita est sibi” — “Iniquity hath lied to itself.” Proposing to follow the Bible only as teacher, yet before the world, the sole teacher is ignominiously thrust aside, and the teaching and practice of the Catholic Church--”the mother of abominations,” when it suits their purpose so to designate her--adopted, despite the most terrible threats pronounced by God Himself against those who disobey the command, “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath.” 

Before closing this series of articles, we beg to call the attention of our readers once more to our caption, introductory of each; viz., 1. The Christian Sabbath, the genuine offspring of the union of the Holy Spirit with the Catholic Church His spouse. 2. The claim of Protestantism to any part therein proved to be groundless, self-contradictory, and suicidal. 

The first proposition needs little proof. The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. We say by virtue of her divine mission, because He who called Himself the “Lord of the Sabbath,” endowed her with His own power to teach, “he that heareth you, heareth Me;” commanded all who believe in Him to hear her, under penalty of being placed with the “heathen and publican;” and promised to be with her to the end of the world. She holds her charter as teacher from Him--a charter as infallible as perpetual. The Protestant world at its birth found the Christian Sabbath too strongly entrenched to run counter to its existence; it was therefore placed under the necessity of acquiescing in the arrangement, thus implying the Church’s right to change the day, for over three hundred years. The Christian Sabbath is therefore to this day, the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic Church as spouse of the Holy Ghost, without a word of remonstrance from the Protestant world. 

 

 

End of Quotations from the “Catholic Mirror”.