Seventh Day of the Week.
By Editor
A WRITER in the Pacific, the organ of the Congregationalists, published in San Francisco, has made a wonderful discovery, which, if accepted by the body at large, will overthrow the established literature of the Christian world, and play havoc most sad with the old "orthodox" bodies of centuries past. He has discovered that the Seventh-day Adventists are guilty of a great sin; that of adding to the word of God by claiming that the Sabbath of the decalogue is the seventh day of the week. This he strongly denies; so strongly as to denounce our positions and arguments as "lies," and using other mild and Christian language! As argument is lost upon people of his cast, we will barely present two ideas for his consideration:— 1. The suggestion of the Christian at Work to a seventh-part-of-time-Sabbath theorist, that if he had tried to keep the Sabbath of the fourth commandment on Sunday, or the first day of the week, in the time of Moses, or during the time of the falling of the manna, he would have found himself involved in difficulty. The falling and the withholding of the manna marked the day which God commanded to be kept in the fourth commandment. This day was observed by the Jews, and is regarded by their descendants to the present time. Which day of the week is it? Any one in particular? or is it any day which we may choose to select? 2. We ask this writer, and the Pacific may answer for him if it chooses, what they are going to do with all the literature of the churches, the many volumes from their best, most gifted, and most highly educated authors, to prove that the Sabbath was changed from the seventh to the first day of the week at an early period in this dispensation? If the position of this would-be wise man is correct, all these writers were laboring under a most grievous error. Or will he assume that the time of the Sabbath was changed from no particular day to some other day? How will he establish such a change as that? We advise the opponents of the Seventh-day Sabbath, the only Sabbath of the Bible, to adjust their own literature to their ever-changing positions before they try to correct ours.