Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-10

agltators even though it does stir up a
little more mud
Your quotation from Virgil :"
fortunate Senex," happily old man. |
had supposed the calendar now In use
to be the Gregorian. Not wishing TO
disturb your happiness which rests on
your supposition | would advise you to
pass over the following authorities on
that question without investigation. :"
The civil calendars of all European
countries have been borrowed from the
Romans. Enc. Bri. Vol, ", p. 666.
Pope Gregory XIII, in 1882, did not in
stitute new calendar but corrected
the one in use by directing that ten
days be stricken out of that year and
instituting the present order of leap
years, Ibid Vol w p. 667.
Your attempted answer of my state
ment that Sunday is the seventh day
of the week according to the Bible
calendar, is a good illustration of the
egotistical attitude of Saturdarian ag;-
tators in general Gratuitously you as
sumo that | am teaching that the
Christian world is whole day in
error in regard to the day of the resur-
rection and that Easter Sunday was
Saturday. Would 1t be worse for me
TO assume that the Christian world
was mistaken in the day of the week
on which the resurrection of Christ
took place than it is for you to claim
that it is mistaken in the Sabbath and
should observe Saturday instead OF
Sunday? The fact is that do not
claim that the Christian world Is mis-.
taken in the day of the week on which
the resurrection took place. but you
evidently do claim that all the Chris
tian world is wrong and going to hell,
except the few of your way of thinking,
and those who may escape through
ignorance, because they do not OBJ
serve Saturday instead of Sunday as a
Sabbath
Now SeneX, get your dusty Bible
and follow me a few moments Christ
was crucified on Friday and buried
late that evening He remained in the
tomb the next day which was Satur-
day and the Jewish Sabbath, and arose
early the next morning which was the
first day of the week | suppose you
will accept the above without giving
references. In Lev. 23. 1916 you will
find the following: "And We shall
count unto YOU from the morrow after
the Sabbath, from the day that ye
brought the sheaf of the wave offer
ing; seven Sabbaths shall be com
plete: Even unto the morrow after the
seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty
days. Now read the twenty-first
verse of the same chapter as fol-
lows, "And We shall proclaim on the
self same day (the f1ftieth day after
passover Sabbath) that it may be an
holy convocation unto you, ye shall do
no servile work therein, it shall be a
statute forever in all of your dwelling
throughout your generations.
In the third verse Of this same
chapter the seventh day is declared to
be ''an holy convocation" and IAN holy
Is always Sabbath.
Now, Dear SeneX, commence to count |
with the morning after the passover
Sabbath, Sunday and count seven Sat |
urday Jewish Sabbaths and the forty
ninth day is Saturday and a Jewish
Sabbath, and "the morrow after the
seventh Sabbath is Sunday and is
made a Sabbath by the scripture given
above; thus it was that the forty-ninth
day was Jewish Sabbath and the
llllCih udy dS CHlCSOSi anu WdS dl-
so Sabbath. Now read the fourth !
again as follows, six |
days shalt thou labour and do all thy |
work, but on the seventh thou shalt |
rest" Thus, the week IS made up of |
six work days and Sabbath and to
obey the Sabbath law it Is as neces-
sary to have six work days in week |
rs it is 10 have one Sabbath If the |
Christian church under the direction
)f the apostles obeyed the fourth com
and put six work days in
he week following Pentecost, then the
lext Sabbath came on Sunday. If they
lisobeyed the fourth commandment |
and counted in but five work days in
hat week the next Sabbath came on
Saturday. If the apostles disobeyed
he fourth commandment and put but
I've days in the week following Penta-
.ost, then they must have regarded it
'epealed und not binding upon the
Christian church. That they did not
20 regard it as repealed is evident.
Then they must have obeyed it and
he Christian Sabbath came ever after
hat on Sunday as it is today, IL
should be remembered that the Jews
ldu Ao ldilISS III tiS uhsS VI Llle WEEK
,ut instead numbered them, and
vhen the Sabbath advanced one day
It Pentecost 1t became the seventh
lay of the week just as the day we
all Saturday had been to them the
eventh day before Pentecost.
Your respectfully,
w H. Jones, Douds-Leando, la.
HE UNION OF CHURCH AND