Outstanding

Recently the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, went into the Russian zone of Germany, and there found "certain hopeful signs" that men and women might be allowed to worship God after their own fashion and according to His law.

In a certain town, people had been made to work on their farms on the Sabbath day, and thus had been unable to attend church. When their pastor protested to the local commandant that good Christians were required to observe the Sabbath according to the Ten Commandments, the Russian officer asked what these might be.

Thereupon the pastor recited to him the Commandments as they had been given by the Lord to Moses:

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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 maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. . . .

Whereupon the Russian replied: "This is indeed outstanding and should be preached everywhere." And thereafter in that town none was asked to work on the Sabbath day.

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