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No Command for Sunday Observance

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 27, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 13.

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No Command for Sunday Observance

QUOTING the Times-Journal that “the Christian citizenship of our nation should stand four-square against Sabbath desecration and should drive from our land the loose idea of Sunday observance,” the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Messenger of Feb. 9, 1913, truly says:—
The decalogue decrees that the seventh day of the week shall be observed as a day of rest. “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord.” . . . The provision of Sabbath observance is likewise incorporated in the decalogue, or ten commandments. But this referred to Saturday, or the seventh day of the week, and such a day of rest was observed with more or less rigidness by the children of Israel, and is to this day. At what time Sunday, or the Lord’s day, came to be observed as a day of rest is clouded in some obscurity. Certain it is there is no direct command for its observance in the Scriptures.