The Washington herald., 1921-06-06
Says Saturday is Sabbath Day
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To the Editor. The washington Herald:
i thank you in advance for pub
fishing the following statements in
your valuable paper. / note in The
Herald that one of your readers
feels that / have misrepresented
him and misstated certain facts In
a letter which you recently uuo-
lished over my signature. Such was
not my intention. The writer of the
article referred to states that l have
misinterpreted Luke 1886 when
make the phrase, according to the
commandment" modify the word
"day" instead of the word rested.
What difference this grammatical
error CD makes in the meaning 1
am too dull to see. Whether they
rested on the Sabbath day, accord
ing to the commandment as the St
lanes version has IL or ION the Sab
bath, they rested according to the
commandment" as the revised YER
sion has It, does not alter the fact
that the Sabbath spoken OF in each
case was the day before the nrst
day of the week.
Moreover, the writer further on
in the article, makes emphauc tnat
he is ready to concede that the
Sabbath of the fourth command
men, must, of necessity, have been
IN. seventh day of the week al that
ner,od of Jewish history That
mai day was our Saturday. all IN
tellectual persons have to admit
Then, where is the misinterpreta-
,ion, He and interpret the same
am not contending that the writer
must keep any day holy. am
merely stating a fact that cahnot
he successfully contradicted wheh
saw that, IL Saturday was the SAD
hath of the fourth commandment
then, as ne himself admits, II must
be the Sabbath day of the fourth
commandment now; because tnat
commandment still read at that
time six days shalt thou labor ana
rest on the seventh day. Allowing
six days of labor, and when would
the next Sabbath come? The mex.
Saturday, Of course, and so on ao
jnfinitum. You must change the
command II you change the gay
will the writer quote any text from
his Bible which changes that COM
mandf
He also says that "the majority
of Bible students are not agreed
that Saturday is the correct DAY on
which Christians should worship'
He In correct. The majority hold TO
sunday: but, almost without excep-
ton, in doing so, they admit that
the law has been either changed or
a abolished, II the law has been
changed IL certainly requires no
tproof to back up the assertion 'hat
the changed day cannot be the oay
enjoined in the original command
I would not minimize in the least
the great Importance OF CHRIST
resurrection; but whether or not
the disciples worked on the hrst
day of the week 1t was their prlvi-
Ilege to do so from the standpolht
Of the fourth commandment The
Creator of the universe set the ek-
ample and declared 1t one OF tne
six working days" Luke 2f:l Is
my authority for the statement that
the Christian women of Galliee
thought the seventh day OF the
week too sacred even TO anoint the
body of the blessed Savior on tnat
day, returning on the first day Oh
the week for that purpose.
Lastly, the writer says that secu-
lar rather than religious works are
always referred to as proof. Let's
see. Bucks Theological Dictionary
says, There Is no law. in the New
Testament concerning the first day.
Dwights Theology says, THE Chris
tian Sabbath tSunday) Is not in the
Scriptures and was not by the
primitive church called the SAD
bath" American Presbyterian
Board Of Publication. tract No. 11s'
says. The observance Of the sew
enth day Sabbath did not cease
until II was abolished after the en-
rire became Christian Smiths
Bible Dictionary says. I'VE have
never found a passage previous TO
Constantine prohibitory Of any work
on the hrst day Of the week" DR..
Hase's Church History says. THE
Roman church regarded Saturday
as fast day in direct opposition
to those who regarded it as a Sab
| bath. Sunday remained joyful
festival in which all worldly busi-
ness was avoided but the original
commandment Of the Decaiosue was
not then applied to that day" In
deed, Sunday was not called the
Sabbath until the sixteenth CEN