The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-10-06
SABBATH OR The LORDS DAY.

QUOTATIONS. from HlSGOIy Wnich ono"
beyond reasonable doubt, that the
Church of Christ in the days of the
Apostles and from their time down
to the present observed the "First
day of the week" for religious wor-
ship and called that day "The Lords
Day."
In the work entitled, Ignatius ad
MagDes, capp. s, 8. Coteler, tom. Il.
Ignatius, the disciple of the Apostle
John. who lived and hourlshed for
many wears after the Apostle, writes:
BE not deceived with heterodox
oninions if we still live
according to Judaism we confess that
we have not received grace.
If they then who were concerned IN
old things, arrived at a newness of
hope, no longer observing the Sab
bath, but living according to our
Lords life." He calls Sunday,
"The Queen of days"
The Jewish Talmud-The Abodah
Zarah-that was written about the
time of the death Of the Apostle
John. mentions "the Lords day"
and calls it "the Christians day"
And in the same work, the name
Nazarene or Christian, is defined as
designating one of the followers of
the man who commanded that, "the
first day of the week should be made
holy day for them"
In the epistle entitled est. Bar
nabas," page Al, note 81 (this epls-
tie written within 80 years after the
Apostle Johns death), he says
ave celebrate the eighth day with
Joy, on which Jesus rose from the
dead"
Justin Martyr wrote about 90 years
after Johns death. In his work
entitled, dustin Martyr, Apol.
Prima. pages 81 and 98,' he says,
"on the day called Sunday is an as
semblv of all who live either in the
cities or rural districts, and the
memoirs of the Apostles and the
writings of tie prophets are read. -
He then describes their religious
acts MISREPRESENTATION of the
Eucharist, Collection of Aims" He
the describes the reasons for meet
ing on "the first day of the week. "
These are, because it is the first
day on which God dispelled the
darkness and the original state OF
things and formed the world, and
because Jesus Christ our Saviour
rose from the dead upon it
therefore, it remains the first and
chief of days"
Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth, sc
years after the death of the Apostle
John, in a letter to the church al
Rome, fragment of which is pre-
served by Eusebius, the great his
torian, says: To-day we kept tht
Lorls day in which we read you
letter." From Rel. Sacr@, vol. l.
D. 1870, from Euseb. IL. K. w., %.
Eighty. eight years after the Apos
tie John, Iren9us, Bishop of Lyons
in letter from the churches in Gaul
then under his superintendent
agreed upon synodical letter t
Victor, Bishop of Rome, in which
these words occurred: "'The myster,
of our Lords resurrection may no
be celebrated on any other day thai
the Lords day, and on this alone
should we observe the breaking 0
the Paschal Lamb" While tradi
ton differs as to the yearly celebra
ton of Christ's resurrection, tn
weekly observance of it is one upol
which no diversity of opinion exlSte'
up to Irenaus' time, A. D. 178, 0
about SS years after Johns death
See ''Iren. Contr. Haer, w., P. 10.
Tertullan, who lived in the secon
century, says: SUNDAY we give t
Joy. We have nothing to do wit
Sabbaths or other Jewish festivals.
See "Tertullian Apol. chap. 49,"
That mastery scholar, Origer
who wrote about A. d. 230, that is
about 140 years after the Apostle
death, says: ut is one of the mark
of the perfect Christian, to keep tn
, Lords day. AS for tn
Sabbath it has passed away, as
matter of obligation Gas everythin
else purely Jewish has passe'
away" See "Origen Contr. Gels
viii, s22, tom. l., p. 75S."
Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, 4
d. 253, about 1853 years after til
Apostle John, writes, and his lettt
is sanctioned by his G6 colleagues
the 3rd Council of Carthage. II
says: The Jewish circumcision Q
the 9Th day preGgured the newne'
of life of the Christian, to whiC
Christ's Resurrection introduces hin
and pointed to the Lords Day, whiC
is at once the eighth and the frs
/ See "Cyprian Epist. LIN. page SO.
Ii tutSe uloboliahoi plohoPo al
ministers all of whom, except I'll
Talmud, writer lived and labored
the cause of Christ within period Z
1863 years after the death of tt
Apostle John, do not convince nj
Burgess that he is gone away fro
Christ and Christianity, back in
Judaism, by trying to keep Saturda
for a Sabbath, then | will be col
PEELED to believe that he prefers