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The Change of the Sabbath

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 13, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 24.

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The Change of the Sabbath

By ARTHUR L. MANOUS

Protestant Testimony

ARTHUR L. MANOUS
Dr. Lee: “There is no express command for observing the first day of the week as a Sabbath.”—“Lee’s Theology,” page 562.
Dr. Binney, Methodist: “There is no express command for this change recorded in the New Testament.”—“Binney’s Theological Compend,” page 133.
Another, Methodist: “There is no positive command for . . . keeping holy the first day of the week.”—“Methodist Theological Compendium,” page 103.
Dr. Fausset, of the Church of England: “The Lord’s day [meaning Sunday] superseded the Jewish sabbath, without our having express command for the transference.”—“Bible Cyclopedia,” art. “Baptism.”
Dr. Buck, of the Independents: “It must be confessed that there is no law in the New Testament concerning the first day.”—“Buck’s Theological Dictionary,” art. “Sabbath.”
Dr. Dwight, Congregationalist: “The Christian sabbath [meaning Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not in the primitive church, called the Sabbath.”—“Dwight’s Theology,” Vol. IV, page 401.
Dr. Binney, Methodist, again says: “It is true there is no positive command for infant baptism; . . . nor is there any for keeping holy the first day of the week.”—“Binney’s Theological Compend,” page 140.
Dr. Watson, Methodist: “There is not on record any divine command to the apostles to change the Sabbath from the day on which it was held by the Jews to the first day of the week.”—“Watson’s Theological Dictionary.”
Again Dr. Watson says: “If children are not to be baptized because there is no positive command for it,” neither “ought we to keep holy the first day of the week; neither of these being expressly commanded.”—“Watson’s Theological Dictionary,” art. “Baptism.”
Dr. Coleman: “No law or precept appears to have been given by Christ or the apostles either for abrogation of the Jewish sabbath, or the institution of the Lord’s day, or the substitution of the first for the seventh day of the week.”—“Ancient Christianity Exemplified,” chap. 26, sec. 2.
Dr. Woffle, Baptist: “Up to the time of Christ’s death no change had been made in the day. The authority must be sought in the works or example of the inspired apostles. . . . So far as the record shows, they did not, however, give any explicit command enjoining the abandonment of the seventh-day Sabbath.”—“The Lord’s Day,” pages 186, 187.
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