Days of the Week by Jos. Clarke.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1866

Days of the Week.

By Jos. Clarke.

WEBSTER in his dictionary, defines Sunday thus: “The Christian Sabbath; the first day of the week.” Monday he calls the second day; Tuesday, the third day; Wednesday the fourth; Thursday the fifth; Friday the sixth; and Saturday, the last day of the week.

Mr. Webster does not intimate that there is the least doubt on this point, as he might easily have done, by saying, “supposed to be the first day of the week;” which he does not say.

It may seem unnecessary to call attention to such a point; as Jews, Mahometans, Papists, all number the days of the week alike; all Protestant nations giving the same testimony; yet by some means, this plea is often given by those who wish to justify Sunday observance; that Sunday is probably, or at least possibly, the true seventh day.

But we would ask such persons, why they will thus deny the authority of Dr. Webster, corroborated by the testimony of Papists, Mahometans, and Jews, to a point as to which neither of them could have a shadow of reason for, or temptation to, deception, in clandestinely or openly changing the order of the days of the week.

To properly estimate this subject, it must be borne in mind, that the different nations alluded to above have never been even friendly to each other; Papists have ever hated both Jew and Turk; and Protestants have been the detestation of Jew, Papist, and Mahometans. How then could they unite in changing the order of days of the week? The idea is preposterous. No such change has been made; and consequently they all held the present order from the time of Noah; and he from Adam; and to hold the contrary, is simply absurd.

JOS. CLARKE.