Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-22
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
No sacredness to Sunday.

letIer marked JeWett City, Shoufd ASK Why should we be banished to the Fiji Islands ?' Our articles are pervaded with the spirit of justice and humanity which is the substance of Christianity. If we are exiled there we shall be Nin Chris tian community because from latest news We learn wAole towns in Fiji are accept ing Christianity. The drums erst used to invite to the cannibal feast are now calling the hour of worship and that too on the seventh day of the week-as the holy Sabbath of the Lord-and not as sacrilegiously called saturday. A gentle man asked me Do you mean to say the Fijians are better than the church people of America I replied, Yes, because they accept truth quickly. So much for Fiji and Fijlan church bells of which A Readers article misinforms virtually, as stating mo laws-no church bells in Fiji" Since this colossal error is in the Jewett City letter, perchance we may find again flaw. We discover a vital one in the statement it is wrong to work on Sunday because we are so commanded Ne- where in the Bible are we commanded to keep Sunday as a sacred day. It is a common working day like Monday. The more I work on Sunday reasonably to health the better I feel because God com manded us to keep as a holy, sacred day the day before Sunday, and to work the other six days of the week. would take Sunday sacredness embodied by many Christians, hold it in the light of the sun, riddle it with bullets until, like chaff be- fore the wind, it disappears like phan- tom which it is.
 If Eff Islanders know which day is the seventh day of the week and keep it holy--the culture of New England ought r. not reiterate the plea of Sunday sacred. ness. Sunday is the first day of the week the command says the seventh day is the Sabbath-(Friday sun-down to Sat. urday sun-down). The base of an argu. ment must be sound to build a right structure. In A Readers second article the obsession of the one-day-in-seven the ory drives the writer of it to persist ii verbally banishing us. Here is whert error again faunts her face.
 :, The Divine command is not to observi | the last day of any series of seven bu the identical seventh day of the Creatioi | Week. Remember the day ans keep it holy-the seventh day is the Sab bath of - thy God = for in si, | days the Lord made heaven and earth.
 Exodus 10th chapter s-11 verses.
 The writer with whom am contend I Me would have the people obey God
 holy injunction but not by force of las
 exalt counterfeit Sabbath; neither en
 act laws compelling observance of tn
 true Sabbath.
 The case of the man stoned for gather ing sticks on the Sabbath cited by MI TrolRnd is an incident of just procedur
 under a theocracy. The theocratic fern of government was tried only once o this planet, but it failed. God irrevocabl
 overthrow it and gave the government 0 this world to Christ as a spiritual Heat
 Any religious law is now out of place i
 a civil state. Under the theocracy to dis obey the civil law meant disloyalty t
 God. Now, we are to pray for kings an rulers and honor the state as 0rdaine by God to regulate merely human rela tionships but when civil law conflicts wit the Divine law our duty is to obey tie
 rather than men. Neither Jew nor Chris
 tian has right now to restore a thec cracy. MT. Troland writes he prefer to keep the day commemerating the res
 urrection of our Lord rather than the da
 which is held to by His crucifers
 (meaning the Jews). It is the Roman
 who crucified our adorable Lord. Tn
 Jews potentially crucifed Him, but the
 had no power but that given them by tf
 Romans. The Romans were sun-worshiI pers and kept Sunday to honor the SUI
 god. All who use this argument of M Troland would be keeping the day '"vhic is held to by His crucifers.r
 like not the stigma which people p,
 on the Jews. The Jews of our day al
 not responsible for what their forefatl . CTS did. Judea, a province of Palestin , is named from Juda, one of the sons
 l inh I,ry
 Jesus Christ is of the tribe of Jud
 So all His followers are spiritually that tribe or Jews since the definition Jew is an inhabit of Judea. All vi go into the Holy City-the New Jerus lem which is in heaven.are true Jew for it is a Jewish city. The names
 the Jewish apostles on the foundati, stones and the gates of pearl have [ them the names of the twelve tribes 4 Israel. And if ye be Christ's then a
 ye Abrsham's seed and heirs accordii
 to the promise" See Galatians, B 1 chapter, 2sth verse.
 Let no one disparage the "Jewisl
 Sabbath for it was given to Adam loi before a Jew existed-and depesit I again with the Jewish nation to be givr
 to the whole world. It is essentially t r Sabbath of the Lord thy God 'tThe Iso e rested the seventh day wherefo D the Lord blessed the Sabbath Day" E s odus 2oth chapter, 11th verse. It is t
 day itself that is blessed and put apa
 as a Sabbath
 b l am using the good illustration. giv
 for another purpose in the article of o
 opponent F. J. w, of Norwich, in i
 exhortation that as fair-minded peof ? see the logic of our position they be n n influenced by the resort to personal retc
 ef snr adversariez but to stick to tru