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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 13.

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The Only Day.

By Jefferson Bartlett

“Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Ex. xx, 8.
1. The seventh day is the only day God rested upon. Gen. ii, 2.
2. It is the only day that God ever sanctified and blessed, as a weekly rest day.
3. It is the only day that is called the Sabbath in all the Bible. Ex. xvi, 23.
4. It is the only weekly Sabbath that God ever commanded man to keep holy. Ex. xx, 8–11.
5. It is the only weekly Sabbath in which God said man shall do no work. Ex. xx, 10.
6. It is the only Sabbath for the keeping of which man is promised a blessing.
7. It is the only day that is ever called the Lord’s day; because Jesus says he is the Lord of the Sabbath. Rev. i, 10; Mark ii, 28.
8. It is the only day Christ ever honored as the Sabbath. Luke iv, 16, 31.
9. It is the only day that the disciples ever rested upon according to the commandment. Luke xxiii, 56.
10. It was the day of prayer in the apostolic times. Acts xvi, 13.
11. It was Paul’s custom to honor the Sabbath; for he remained at Corinth eighteen months, preaching on the Sabbath. Acts xviii, 1, 11.
12. It is the only day that the Gentiles ever kept as the Sabbath during the apostolic age. Acts xiii, 42, 44.
13. It is the only day enjoined in the decalogue; and as Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Lutherans, and all the so-called orthodox, say that the law of the ten commandments is immutable and eternal, they of necessity must acknowledge that the seventh day is the Sabbath and should be kept.
On the other hand,
1. There is not a text in the Bible, that says Sunday is a Sabbath, the Lord’s day, or a holy day in any respect.
2. There is not a divine command for its observance in all revelation.
3. God never said, Thou shalt not work on Sunday.
4. Sunday is no more holy than any other week day.
5. Its only sanctity came from the church of Rome.
6. They who keep it obey only a human tradition.
7. No Sunday law was known earlier than A. D. 321.
8. Which is the safest, and most according to the divine word, to keep Sunday according to tradition, or the Sabbath according to the commandment of God?
JEFFERSON BARTLETT.
Harrison Co., Iowa.