Mrs. White at first refused to believe that the Fourth Commandment was more binding than any other. Elder Bates urged its great importance until Mrs. White had a convenient vision, in which she asserted that she was taken to heaven, and shown the Sanctuary and its appointments. A description of her vision is given: " Jesus raised the cover of the ark, and she beheld the tables of stone on which the Ten Commandments were written. She was amazed as she saw the Fourth Commandment in the very center of the ten precepts, with a soft halo of light encircling it."
Hence she called on her followers to worship God as Creator on the seventh day. One looks in vain for any real sense of Christianity in her writings. Worship for her is connected with the claims of the Creator, whilst worship, founded on redemption, seems to be ignored.
The Fourth Commandment is no more abrogated than any other part of the law, which will yet be written in the heart of Israel under the new covenant. But Christians were never put under the law. Therefore to bind the law upon the Christian is to deny the historical teaching of the Acts of the Apostles, and to refuse the whole Christian position. Scripture says, " Ye are not under the law, but under grace " (Rom. 6:1414For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14)).