The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-30
Saturday Sabbatarians Noticed

'sued at the Seventh-Day Adventist
flee, Battle Greek, Mich, 1871, con-
ends that Saturday was the original
- 7abbath. I see on page IS, CDR,
Akers' theory examined" Under this
"eading the elder says: The Jews
'ow observe Saturday as the Sabbath
# the Lord, and rs the seventh day of
be original week. Both clauses in
his sentence are false. For the Satur-.
= tay given the Jews as their Sabbath,
he Lord said, els sign between me
nd you throughout your generations"
tx. 3l:l3, and Mathew LII, shows
hat these generations were only unto
Christ" As many Jews therefore as
:ept their covenant" by receiving
christ as their prophet, priest and king,
,pst for themselves and their posterity
I'll further use for Sabbath of "signs,"
ypical ceremonies noted "genera-
ions,' &c; for in Christ "there is
,either Jew nor Creek
But the Jews who rejected Christ
AVE failed to "observe that Sab
,ath as perpetual covenant"
TX. 3l:l6, for 1900 years. Nor can
hey ever keep, or observe it again;
or they are without king and
prince sacrifice, image, ephod and terra
1him,' Hos. 3:4. Neither can Sabba-
earian Gentiles keep it. Its shadows
Ire gone. And as to Saturday being
,l.e seventh day Of the original week,
S. the Elder says, the "Jews now OBJ
terve it he fatty contradicts the unit
I'd testimony Of all intelligent Jews
hat have written for the last fifteen
hundred years. They universally teach
hat Monday was the first day and
Sunday the seventh day Of the first
week, first month and first year of their
count of time. There may be some
Jews, either ignorant or wicked enough
20 mislead the Elder.
The Jews admit that the Lord gave
heir Fathers Saturday as their Sab
oath unto Christ when they left Egypt.
This, they say, occurred their A. NJ.
,,,449, Saturday, Nissan 18th; same as
Apr. IL, A. J. P. (year of the Julian
~-t'eriod) 3,402. But, say they, Christ
not come, and they profess to publish
ret the calender as it came from Cen
isis.
The Elder PIP. Al, &C., proves him.
elf profoundly ignorant of the subject
'efore him. Neither have | nor the
tsabbins represented their "a. NJ.
?,ll4," as their year Of the Exodus.
Nor have I represented the Rabbinic
4. NJ. l, Tisri |, Monday, which cor
responds to Monday, Oct. 7, A. j. P.
953, as the true Bible time Of the first
lay of creation. But it proves the
elder misrepresents the Jews, by say
..ng their "original Sabbath was Satur-
lay" The said Rab. A. NJ. |, Tisri |,
Monday, was the same Monday as my
Bible A. NJ. 1856, Tisri Oath. Does
ihe Elder understand this? And Sat
nrday Abb Is in my Bible A. NJ. 1899,
8 the rery same day as Sotu, dug Abb
s., in the rabbinical A. NJ. 2,ll4, each
being the identical Scriptural day of
Exodus, and each the same Saturday
Is March 9th, A. J. P. 1907.
! Does the Elder yet understand If
20 let him not misrepresent. When
Bible teachers furnish US with their cal
snders of Scripture years, months,
weeks and days we can then test them
oy each other, and by the Scripture
testimony itself; but when teachers
pave no calendars Of Scripture years,
Ec-, they furnish US nothing by which
% test their wild expressions about
Bible time. When, therefore, any such
;eu US that the "Jews now hold Sat-
friday as the seventh day of the origin
pl week. they certainly, though per-
laps ignorantly, misrepresent them.
The Jewish time for the exodus, as
'ixed by the Rabbins, is their year of
The world 2,449, Abb Is Saturday.
The Elder should tell this fact to all
,Sabbatarian brethren, and never again
tnisrepresent his own witnesses. If ig
:lorant of the fact, he should learn it.
The Elder says, p. So, "The testi-
nony of all history shows Sunday to
be the first day, and Saturday the
SEVENTH If the Elder believed he was
telling the truth why did he not quote
bome Of that testimony" to " show ,"
others his faith was not without evil
fence If by cali history" he in
,ludes the Bible, he ought to have
pointed to at least one proof. And,
# he meant the testimony" Of jew
sh history, that, he will learn when
1e studies it, positively makes Mon
lay the first day and Sunday the seventh.
{ believe Monday, as We now call it.