Bible Authority for Sunday Observance
In a recent letter to the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press on the question of Bible authority for Sunday observance a Catholic priest says:— The Rev. Mon Hughes, with all the followers of the “Reformation” who profess to follow their own private judgment, and the Bible (a vernacular translation, suiting notions of its meaning) as “the sole rule of faith,” can not show a single passage in which occurs “Thus saith the Lord” regarding Sunday, or the first day of the week, as a day of rest and worship. I have before me an appeal to the clergy of the United States, which is being sent broadcast over the country and signed by fourteen resident Seventh-day Adventist ministers of Washington, D. C., that the Sunday observance laws are all wrong and against the express letter and command of the Bible. This reference to the “Open Letter,” of which nearly half a million copies have been circulated, suggests that copies of this leaflet have found their way into the hands of readers of all classes and beliefs, and that it is still proclaiming the truth concerning the Sabbath.