Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-03-03

for him to assume the Christian
world mistaken as to the day mot
date) of the resurrection than for me
J es sir; emphatically. The first Is a
question of fact. The second is a
question of belief" Ought not ques-
lions Of belief be facts? Certainly not
all things believed are facts, for it Is
evident to nine-tenths of the Christian
world that many things believed and
taught by Saturdarian agitators are
not facts at all. Your argument is
that 1t is no evidence Of egotism for
YOU to claim that the Christian world
is mistaken in the day that should be
observed as a Sabbath, but 1t would be
evidence OF egotism IL should claim
that 1t was mistaken In the day Of the
week on which the resurrection took
place. The question Of eEotism de-
ponds altogether on whose OK Is being
gored according to your argument.
After presenting the usual stock ar
guments Of Saturdardian agitators he
closes with the following: Our jour
ney is now at an end, and, like Dante
thence issuing we again behold the
stars" He has said the last word, nail
ed up In its coffin the last argument Of
Sunday Sabbath; the world is now
illuminated and all must now see that
the only Sabbath is Saturday. Are such
statements as these evidence of ego
tism? We leave the answer to the
reader.
The question of whether Julius Gaze
sar is the author OF the present calen-
dar Is of no Importance in regard to
the Sabbath question. l mentioned
the fact that the calendar now in use
was gotten up long since the Bible
calendar which is the one by which
we should fix the day observed as a
Sabbath. II the reader will turn to the
article calendar found In Enc. Britt,
Vol. W, page 666. he will find that the
calendar In use before the one gotten
up by Julius Caesar was a lunar one
and that the months were arranged to
cover one lunation and contained
twenty-nine and thirty days alt ornate-
ly, thus making year of 354 days but
an additional day was added to make
1t odd, as that was considered more
fortunate. This year of 355 days be-
ing over ten days too short, created
great confusion, and at the change of
the calendar in order to bring the equi-
nox back to the proper time, 1t was
necessary to count 445 days in that
year, which is known In history as the
last year OF confusion. Pope Gregory's
change in the calendar consisted al
most entirely by ordering ten days
suppressed and the omission of q leap
year once in century. senex, If the
change Of the calendar from aSlunar
to- solar by julius Caesar was not,
as you claim, change in the calen-
dar by substituting one for another,
how was 1t that Pope Gregory institut-
ed new calendar by suppressing ten
days in one year and emitting leap
year once in century? Your posi-
ton is a good illustration of how you
allow your Saturdarion prejudices to
warp your Judgment
Another illustration of how common
sense must take its fight when Satur-
darian doctrine comes into view Is
found In the following quotation. It
further follows, that IL the holy WON.
en- went to the sepulchre on the first
day Of the week and Sunday was the
seventh day, Easter Sunday was Sat
urday." Common people would sup.
pose that II Sunday was the seventh
day and the women went to the sepul-
chre on the first day that they went
on Monday. Only Saturdarian agi-
tator could screw up his logic to the
tension of the above statement.
L. - C~ss
have stated, that the Christian world
is going to hell, am not called upon
to defend this travesty." II you do
not believe that the people will be lost
because they do not observe Saturday
as Sabbath; why all this racket?
Why do you go over the country pros
elyting people out of other churches
into yours? Why divide families and
neighborhoods over your Saturday
Sabbath doctrines? Is 1t simply for
the pleasure of agitating? Do such
agitators talk for the pleasure of hear
ing their heads roar?
Another quotation: at follows from
this, that if Sunday in the Bible cal
endar is the seventh day of the week
the resurrection being on the first
day Of the week was not on Sunday"
This is good illustration of the
twisting and screwing about of Satur-
darian agitators. stated plainly in
my former letter that Christ was cru
Gifted on Friday, and buried late that
evening, that ne remained in the tomb
Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, and
arose Sunday morning. ] also showed
that the change in the Sabbath took
place at pentecost, fifty days later,
and you ignore this and go back be-
fore pentecost and throw dust in
vain attempt to confuse people into
your way of thinking.
The fact is that the Sabbath has
changed days in the week at least
twice, one of them taking place at the