WHO CHANGED THE SABBATH?
By E. P. DANIELS
Who changed the Sabbath?
Is a question, asked to-day
By honest-hearted people,
Who seek to know the way.
Not I,
Chimed the Episcopalian bell;
It must have been—ah! well,
I cannot say
Just who did change the Sabbath day. Who changed the Sabbath?
The fourth command, so deep and broad,
Fixed, by the firm decree
Of the eternal God.
Not I,
Rang out the Methodistic bell;
The Bible, it must be, will tell;
I cannot say,
But think that Jesus changed the day. Who changed the Sabbath?
An institution well designed
To keep the Creator's works in mind.
Not I,
Came a sound from another steeple;
Don't charge that sin to the Baptist people;
We only say,
It makes no difference about the day. Who changed the Sabbath?
That day of holy rest,
Which God not only sanctified, but blest.
Not I,
Rang out in lusty tones a bell;
I've no faith in Sabbaths, or a burning hell.
Don't dare to say
The Congregationalists ever changed the day. Who changed the Sabbath?
The day that Christ adored,
And said 'twas made for man,
And I its Lord;
The day the Mary's kept,
While Christ lay in the tomb;
A day the disciples spent
In their own upper room;
The day which martyred hosts
Observed midst scorn and jeers,
On which they sealed their faith,
With earnest cries and tears;
The day that now is kept
By many to their loss;
By noble men who bear,
The burden of the cross?
I—I—I!
Rang out at last, a bell.
I changed the Sabbath, and that so well,
That nearly all the sects agree
That I have power to thus decree;
I, church at Rome, did change the day,
And this I do not shrink to say.
Search the Bible's inspired range,
You'll find no text that proves a change
From seventh to first, by God's command,
A fact well settled in every land.
Ha! ha! ha! ha!
I am he
That changed the Sabbath,—
The papal See.