Richmond planet., 1900-03-24
EDITOR JOHN MITCHELL. JR.,

EDITOR JOHN MITCHELL, JR.,
Dear Sir:-I see in your most widely
read paper of q week ago, q statement
60 the effect that deacon of Baptist
Church IN Richmond, Va, had been
excluded both from his office and
church membership, for believing that
Saturday is still Ged's Sabbath and
that il had not been changed TO the
1st day Of the week or TO what is known
rs Sunday and the Lords Day.
also see that Prof. Jones was O
member of the committee or council
that examined the brother on his doc
trinal fitness for the miRistry, and that
they refused to recommend him for liz
cense. but made q case against him,
and sent him on to the church meet
ing to be tried for holding false doc
trines.
CANNOT FIND IT.
Now / want to say to DR.. Jones that
] do not ind one single passage in the
Old Testament that says either by
prophet, priest or king that it was the
purpose OF God to ever change His
Sabbath to the first day of the week /;
neither do find q single passage in
the New Testament that ssys, or even
implies that the change was ever
made I; and il there is such passage in
either the Old or New Testaments,
call on DIR. Jones to name it for me.
On the other hand, however. I do fad
that it says the seventh day is theiSab-
bath Of the Lord and,I want to say,
that in every passage IN either Testa-
msnt, where the Sabbath is mentioned,
il refers to Saturday and not to Sun
day, for the word SUNDAY" is not in
tho Rsh1a hoaanco 20 . ~. 49,.
and does not refer to the worship of
Christ, but to the Sun. Just notice the
spelling of the word il is not "Son )"
but "Sun," which shows that il refers
80 our solar Sun, and not to Gods Son /;
and also shows that the day has been
dedicated to the heathen worship of
the sun.
ENTERS HIS PRoTKsT.
Now, want to enter my most solemn
protest. as Baptist, against turning 8
member o0t of the church fer holding
to the teaching of Gods word as
against the teaching of man for the
teaching that the Sabbath has been
changed to Sunday. sis the teaching Of
men, and men only.
But let me here give some proof of
this.
First: Jesus nowhere and at no time
speaks or any change of the day from
from the seventh to the first. Anssh-
er proof ia, that the whole church kept
the Law of Moses for many years after
the death of Christ, because the church
was composed OF none but Jews until
about the year Al, when Peter brought
in Cornelius and his household. Now,
if the resurrection OF Jesus meant the
changing OF the day, why did the
church go right on keeping the sew
enth day. during the whole lifetime of
the apostle s,-ior they all continued
the Synagogue worship until the day of
their death and only worshlped else
where when they were either driven or
turned out Of them or that there was
none IN the place; and in the Syna-
gogue on the Seventh or Sabbath day.
This shows that the church kept the
Seventh day.
HOW THE DAY WAS CHANGED.
Now, will attempt to show how the
day was changed from Saturday to
Sunday as q day of worship. It was
not by God Himself, nor Jesus, nor his
apostles: but as said before, by man.
Turn to Encyclopedia Britanics
page 654, and here is what it says:
'The first writer who mentions Sun.
day as applicable to the Lords Day.
is Justin Martyr. This de esignation of
the first day Of the week is Of heather
origin"
Again from the same work and vel.
ume, the writer says: But the whole
matter was placed on an entirely new
footing when the civil power By the
"a
see Browns Cyclopaedia Of Religious
Knowledge, article. Sunday" and
this is what 1t says in speaking OF how
she change was brought about: ITO
call it Sunday is to set our wisdom be-
fore the wisdom of God.-to give shat
glory to Q pagan idol which is due to
Him alone. The Ssxons called it by