The Sunday-Sabbath Confusion
It is impossible for a man to write an article or preach a sermon of any length in favor of the Sunday-Sabbath, without getting terribly muddled. The Conference News prints a "Sermon on the Sunday Question," in which the writer says: "While yet in the wilderness, the man who gathered sticks on Sunday was punished with death." Then according to this writer's idea, the ancient Jews kept Sunday. Now read the following from the same article: "The Sabbath is a perpetual institution. Its obligations did not cease, as some would have us believe, with the coming of Christ, else he himself would not have observed it, nor enjoined its observance on others, nor sanctioned its change from the seventh to the first day of the week." If it be true that the Jews kept Sunday, and that a change in the Sabbath was made by Christ to the day following that which the Jews kept, then Monday is the true "Christian Sabbath!" Is it not time for another reform movement? We believe it is, and think that it should take the shape of teaching men how to read the Bible.