Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-12
is A WoRLDIAN.

Editor Courier
| | notice an article from the able pen
of one w. H. Jones of Douds-Leando,
giving us new light on the Sabbath
question, and with your permission
will say few words in reply to him.
He says that the question of which
! day of the week should be observed
| as a Sabbath was settled by the Chris
| tian church under the direction of the
apostles and has since been so regard
ed as settled except by small num-
Der of people who continually insist
that it is still an open question. Now
in this remarkable age of new discoV-
cries is it not wonderful that man
right here in Iowa is the first man to
| discover that the first day of the week
is the seventh day of the week? Is 1T
not strange that this was not revealed
to some mind hundreds of years ago?
| Fe did not inform us how he received
| this light, whether in vision or how,
only he says so, and of course no one
will doubt his word. Notice that he
says the day was settled by the Chris
| tian church under the direction of the
apostles. Why did he not tell us when
/ and where this thing was recorded?
| It's the record that some are afraid or
when it comes to this question. Now
! please tell Us which exercise the most
authority in setting the day apart, the
] Christian church Or the apostles, and
| who placed their blessing upon it, the
| Christian church or the apostles, AMI
which placed a penalty on it's viola
/ ton, the church or the apostles, and
which commanded us to keep it. the
! church or the apostles; and who made
4 it holy, the church or the apostles; or
did they forget this important part of
| their authority and finally tell us
again where all this is recorded. and is
it possible that God delegated this a;i-
thority to the Christian church and
/ the apostles; and is it not strange.
very strange. that no one discovered
it until the Christian church was Or
ganiZed about eighteen hundred years
/ after the apostles were all dead? Oh,
consistency. consistency, thou art a
! jewel. And then he brands all seventh
day believers as people that do no
/ good, and an injury to morals and re.
/ ligion. VIII he show us where seventh
day people 90 out of scriptural au-
thority for their belief of the day
| which we should observe, and if they
do not what kind of morals and relig-
ion does this condemn; and then he
says the attitude Of Christians in gen
eral has been to take but little part in
4 opposing the views of such agitators
Now he says further on, this question
that they have construed the silence
of the other side to mean that their
arguments were unanswerable. Now if
you can give us scriptural authority
in answer to sustain your first day
why don't you do so, Not mere asser
ton, nor multitude Of words, for
such will not be accepted as proof
1 Where will you go for divine author
Iity? No place but the Bible. You admit
by your own argument that you have
no scripture only for the seventh
day but you want the peo
pie to believe that the seventh
day is the first day of the
week, You say we are living under the
/ calendar of julius Caesar Are you
not mistaken about this? Don't yo.
know that no calendar ever changed
the days of the week? You say in con,
clusion that you had no trouble &c
demonstrate the above statements tic
any ordinary audience. OF course this
includes that the seventh day of the
you say you don't anticipate any
trouble in doing so in the future.
wish to tell you that people up in this
part of Iowa are not what you call an
ordinary audience, for many hero
could not see this as you teach it. Now
don't you know that 1t was the Roman