The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-08-18
WEEKLY CELEBRATIONS
ARE AN AbSURD|TY.
Evangelist FroOm Declares Cele-
bration of Resurrection of Christ
Weekly as Much Out of Place as
To Celebrate Ones Birthday
Each Week.

Weekly as Much Out of Place as
To Celebrate Ones Birthday
Each Week.
'To observe fifty-two Sundays q
year in Commemoration of the
resurrection of Christ is an absur-
| dity, and as much of an impossible
ty as to celebrate your birthday
once a week" Such was one of the
thoughts advanced by Evangelist L.
E. Froom Sunday night, at the
Adventist Chapel. His subject was
who Changed the Sabbath" Con-
tinuing, the speaker said:
No event of this nature can be
commemorated weekly that did not
occur during the first seven days of
time, when God created the world.
All events commemorated since
then bear the date of the month
and re-occur but once each year.
1t would be impossible to celebrate
Independence Day each week, be-
cause our independence was declar-
ed on July 4, 1875. The memorial
of that event can come but once a
year, for the simple reason that
the fourth of July comes but once
year.
Christ was resurrected On the
10th day of the Jewish month, Nj
san. Therefore, there is but one
day in the year that could be kept
to commemorate the resurrection,
and that is the 18th of Nissan which
is now supposed to fall on Easter
Sunday. 1t is consequently abb
surd and an utter impossibility to
observe the first day of every
week in honor of Christ's resurrec-
ton.
Neither can Sunday be kept in
obedience to the Fourth Command
ment, for the first day is not the
seventh day. Could the fourth of
July be celebrated on July 5th?
Protestants have not one iota of
authority for keeping Sunday in
stead of the Sabbath, except the
tradition and practice of the Ro-
man Catholic Church. There is
not one text between the lids of
the Bible authorizing anyone to
keep Sunday.
eff any man in Cambridge thinks
otherwise, let him take UP the Of
fer made by Father Enright, Presi-
dent of the Redemptorist College,
Kansas City, Mo. Here is his
challenge: I will give $1,000
any man who will prove, 10y ti
Bible alone, that Sunday is the ID
We are bound to keep. The oDsef-l
vance of Sunday is solely law OIL
the Catholic Church The church
changed the day from Sabbath tol
Sunday, and all the world bows
down and worships upon that day,
in silent obedience to the man
dates of the Catholic Church.
Eyes, somedLe has tampered with
Gods law and changed the obser-
vance of the Sabbath from the
7th to the 1st day. The marks of
substitution are clear. A crime
has been committed. Who is the
criminal? The charge is made in
2 Thess. 2, 3-4. Paul tells of the
great apostacy, the falling away
and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition; who opposeth
and exalteth himself above all that
is called God,' sitting in the church.
Daniel also, in Dan. Z, rs, de-
clares of this power, He shall think
to change times and the law of
the Most High. 1t is to exalt it
self above God by presuming to
change the eternal, perfect, change
less law of God. 1t has reference
to the Fourth Commandments ,as this
is the only one referring to times
divinely appointed. Were these
predictions fulfilled? Listen to
the confession of the guilty, boast
ing of making the change.
GO The Catholic Church for over
1000 years before the existence of
a Protestant changed the day from
Saturday to Sunday. 1t is, there
fore, to this day the acknowledged
offspring of the Catholic Church,
without one word of remonstrance
from the Protestant world. .'-tCatho-
lie Mirror, Sept. %, 1898.
"Christ and His apostles did not
change the day of the Sabbath.
The change was made by the very
po%er God said would change it
This t@er comes forward and con-
fesses to the pointing ito
the change in Prote9 ut worship
as proof of its power to eha nge
| Gods law. 1t is, therefore, eTi'
dent from the Bible, from history
and from the confession of the
guilty, that Sunday observance wa:
introduced by the Catholic Church
.tShall we take our stand or
| the true Protestant platform, o.
shall we put ourselves on record