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One Day in Seven

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 1, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 40.

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One Day in Seven

By Editor

The recent quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted a declaration which serves as a sort of theological platform. This platform declares that the Methodist Church stands “for a release from employment one day in seven.” We hope that Methodists will hold to the exact wording of this statement, and not make it mean the compulsory observance of Sunday; but past experience leads us to be skeptical on this point. Many who oppose the observance of the original Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and theoretically advocate the observance of simply one-seventh part of time, practically demand that the one-seventh part of time shall be Sunday. The Lord himself has established the principle of resting “one day in seven,” and has made that a definite day—the Sabbath of the fourth commandment.