The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-01-15
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Editor Canon City Daily Record.
notice in your daily issue of Jan
uary Z, 1920. that you speak of three
of our nations holidays falling on
Sunday. | do not know Ii you eA
pected this question to be answered
through the columns of your paper.
II you did, you have asked a question
that would require much space TO an
swer fully, because it is so compli-
Gated, and to try to answer it intelli-
gently and yet be brief, is really an
irksome job. However, by your per
mission | will say that | think it is
perfectly proper for the reasons. that
If Sunday means sabbath, referred to
in the fourth command, that Sabbath
was the great Sabbath OF the Jewish
year, and fell on the fifteenth day of
the year, and was observed only once
year, there were seven other sew
enth-day Sabbaths following along di-
rectly after this passover sabbath.
which consisted of seven days each.
seven Sabbaths of Sabbaths, the law
says. 40 days, between passover Sab
bath and Pentecost (the fifth day.. but
the six first days each Sabbattic pc
riod (of seven) was each secular
day. The law regulating the keeping
of the passover Sabbath was very
strict The Jews must go into their
houses at sundown on the sixth day.
or last one of the six preparation
days, and remain quiet in the house,
until sundown of passover Sabbath.
To violate this command was death.
They could not kindle fire. nor cook
or do any kind of manual labor The
remaining seven, seventh day Sab
baths. were also claimed by the Lord.
Jehovah, as His Sabbaths. But the
manner of keeping them does not ap-
pear to be so strict. At Pentecost
the seventh day Sabbaths ceased for
the year, ad there were no more sew
enth day Sabbaths for over nine
months, until the fifteenth day of Abb
of the following year The law makes
no provision for any other seventh dav
Sabbaths. just eight and only eight.
in the whole year. The early church
(or Christian) fathers understood this
custom, and practiced keeping the
passover Sabbath once a year, but
emitting the seven seventh day Sab
baths intervening between passover
and Pentecost. | refer as proof of
this fact to book seven. chapter 23 of
the Apostolic Constitution of the first.
second and third centuries of the
Christian era, which says: But there
is only one Sabbath to be observed
by you in the whole year, which is
that of our Lords burial, on which
men ought to fast, but not to feast"
We infer then from these facts, and
from the additional fact that Sunday
was a heather term applied by tn
Romans to the feast of the Sun. the
day after it returned from the north
it having crossed the vernal equinox
which happened only once in each
year. I say that we infer from these
facts that Sabbaths and Sunday. both
came at a time of the year (about
March 10 to 25). in which our national
holidays can not interfere. for II We
use the lunar months for a year. and
the new moon falls on the first day OF
March. the Sabbath of the fourth com
mand would fall on March Is. We
would then have Is days yet of March
left. added to the 80 days of April
which gives us Al days. Then five
days more of May to make the if-
teenth day. or Pentecost. our Sab
batic period would cease "a days be
more our first national holiday. May
30. and the Fourth of July. Labor day
and Christmas. would all three come
too late in the year, and Lincolns
birthday the twelfth. and Washing
tons birthday. the twenty-second Of
February. would come too early in
the year to interfere with this Sabbat