Another Admission by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1882

Another Admission.

By Editor

A CORRESPONDENT of the Watchman asks as to whether the first day of the week should be called Sabbath or Sunday, and that paper in its reply makes the following candid statement:—

"Sunday is the name of the day of the week; Sabbath, or Lord's day, is the name which indicates its religious use. The Scriptures nowhere call the first day of the week 'the Sabbath.' Wherever in the New Testament that term occurs, Saturday is meant, not the Lord's day. We believe in the moral obligation to observe one day of the week as a day of Sabbatical rest; and, since the first day has been made the Lord's day, there is no impropriety in transferring to it the name of the Sabbath, though there is no Scriptural authority for doing so, nor, of course, any Scriptural obligation."

Truly, "their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges."