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THE SABBATH, AGAIN

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 19, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 19.

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THE SABBATH, AGAIN.

By Editor

A FEW weeks ago we copied a good answer which the Christian at Work gave to the Advance (of Chicago) on the modification of the fourth commandment. The Advance tried to justify itself by the customary dodge of an indefinite seventh day, to which the C. at W. replies as follows:—
“The Advance: ‘The Christian Sabbath is as truly the seventh day as the Jewish Sabbath.’ Oh no;—perhaps if you had been an Israelite in the time of Moses or Joshua, and had worked on Saturday, and made your ‘seventh day’ to be Sunday, you would have found out the difference. The Jews, if the Advance please, had a chronology of their own, and the seventh day meant the seventh day and not the first. Is Chicago the place where folk drop a day and take up another? It seems to be?”
That is true; “the seventh day meant the seventh day and not the first,” and so it does still. And nothing but prejudice can prevent any one seeing it.
And now we would like to know if the Christian at Work thinks the fourth commandment is modified? And if so, by what action, and by whom? What is its principle of Sunday observance?