SAYS the Tennessee Baptist:—
SAYS the Tennessee Baptist:— “If it is a fact that God changed the computation of time when he appointed the Jewish Sabbath, setting it back one day (which who can successfully deny?), then the whole Sabbath question is forever settled. Christ arose on Sunday, the Edenic Sabbath day, which was appointed for the entire race.”
Ah, yes. “If it is a fact.” But is it a fact? Of course it is not, and the editor of the Tennessee Baptist knows that there is no evidence to that effect, but knowing that his readers are willing to be convinced that Sunday is the Sabbath, he is content to let the whole matter rest on an undemonstrated and undemonstrable hypothesis. He makes an assertion, and without offering argument, because there is none, he attempts to cajole people into the belief that he has proved his assertion by asking, “Who can deny it?” Such methods are the stock in trade of most Sunday advocates, but they cannot pass current with thinking people. The Scriptures forbid any such assumption as the one quoted. Christ rose on Sunday, the first day of the week, just one day after the day of “the Sabbath according to the commandments,” the Edenic Sabbath which God appointed for the entire race.