The Newtown bee., 1892-01-08
The Sunday Question.

The Christian church was in the be- ginning a Jewish church made up of con- verts from Judaism and these Jewish con- verts carried the principles of their Jew ish traditions with them. They carried with them, therefore, their Jewish Sab was only new phase of Judaism and in- sisted on temple observance, on circum- cision, on the Jewish calendar aud on the Jewish Sabbath. But as an increas- ing number of Gentiles were ingathered, they objected to being bound by these traditions. They objected to circumcis- ion; to the feast-days; to the temple ser vice; and they objected to the Sabbath. And Paul said, Do not let any man judge you respecting any of these things-re- specting temple, sacrifices, new moon, or Sabbath days. He chased them all to- gether. They were all a shadow. The substance is Christ.
 It was inevitable that the Christian church should be unable long to observe the Sabbath as day of festivity. It was buG udH HI WHICH ULiCIE lay III lLC tomb; their hopes had been killed and they were in despair on that day. It could not be day of festivity and rejoic- ing to these Christians. And, on the oth- CT hand, the day that followed, day which Judaism had never known, could not be otherwise than day of great fes- tivity and rejoicing, for on that day Christ rose from the dead. So, after little, in the Christian church new day-Sunday arose. Within half century of Christs death, the church of Christ had officially declared that the Jewish Sabbath was not binding on the disciples of the new faith. A great council was called at Je- rusalem to determine whether Christians were to be governed by the laws of Mo- ~The council after due deliberation counseled that they abstain from blood, from meat that had been offered to idols and from things strangled. But they said not word about Sabbath observ- ance. At last, as Gentilism grew strong ism grew less and less, the Jewish Sab bath was completely oblterated and the Christian Sunday took it's place. This is the history, so far as the Bible gives it to us, of Sunday.
 The years pass by and Puritanism arose. Now, it was charac teristic of the Puritans that they went back to the Old Testament. They cared more for Hebrew than they cared for Greek. They took the names for their children from the Old Testament rather than from the New Testament names. They took their pre- They justified the massacre of Roman Catholics by the massacre of the Canaan ties by Joshua. We have one recorded instance in which they accommodated a Scotch Presbyterian for helping to build an Episcopal church, because the law of Moses prohibited men from build- ing heathen temples. That was the spirit of Puritanism. Ig went back to the Old Testament and it undertook to recon- struct society on Old Testament models. But in one respect it was anti-Jewish It was opposed to all feast days. It would have no Christmas, no Easter, no games, no holidays. So this austere spirit failed to see the festive character of the Jewish took all that was hard and rig orous in it and left out of it all that was joyous. That is the history of the growth of our Sunday.-[Lyman Abbott.
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