Dutch Sabbath-keepers to Cooperate with BSA

By Mike Gassenaar

“We started the De Sabbat Stichting (The Sabbath Foundation) in 1996. At that time we offered a price of 10,000 guilders to anyone who could prove from the Bible that Sunday is the seventh day, or Sunday is the day of worship. Only 17 persons tried to get the prize. Nobody could. So in 1998, we offered 100,000 guilders, that is approximately $50,000, U.S. dollars. They had to write their thesis in a maximum of 750 words. Now we have 35 persons who are trying to give such a proof. An independent jury is reading the scripts and most of the contributors wrote more than a 1,000 words. As you well know, nobody can prove this thesis.

The Sabbath Foundation is an independent organization from all kinds of Sabbath-keepers. In Holland we have more than 12,000 Sabbath-keepers, but only 6,000 are organized in a church, such as the Seventh-day Adventists or Baptists.

We try to reach the people with our brochure, “Busy, busy, busy.” [See translation, on page 9.] Until now 1,500 Sabbath-keepers are members of our foundation, which means every three months they get our magazine, “Sabbat Nieuws,” which means “News About the Sabbath.” We…”

(this article is an excerpt from the August-Sept 1999 edition of the Sabbath Sentinel)

To read the rest of this article, which starts on page 8, click this link: https://biblesabbath.org/tss/478/tss_478.pdf