The Sabbath – Made for Man

By Allen Bowman

“We live in a day of exacting schedules, relentless pressures, and endless hurry. Secular magazines print admiring stories of “successful” businessmen who work ten to fourteen hours a day seven days a week. It seems never to occur to the writers that there is a direct connection between such Godless schedules and the appalling rate of ulcers and breakdowns among business executives.

Production managers complain that plant operations are seriously crippled by absenteeism and inefficiency on Mondays. The reason? Misspent week ends! Years ago Henry Ford estimated that he would have had his Model A production in six months sooner if he had forbidden his engineers to work seven days a week. “It took us all week”, he confessed “to straighten out mistakes that they made on the day when they should have rested.”

The Sabbath is in no sense an arbitrary arrangement. Far from being a device to spoil our fun, it is a divinely ordained institution for advancing man’s welfare. It is perfectly fitted to…”

(this article is an excerpt from the August 1972 edition of the Sabbath Sentinel)

To read the rest of this article, which starts on page 3, click this link: https://biblesabbath.org/media/tss_188Aug1972.pdf