Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 31, 1907

The writer of the Sunday-school lessons in The Weekly Review of Apache, Okla., referring to the necessity of a Sabbath, says:—

Some such institution was essential to the moral and religious development of man, the means of cultivating his higher nature, and hence, to the best progress of his civilization—physical and mental.

The two great essential foundations of man’s progress and true prosperity were ordained at the very beginning,—the family and the Sabbath. These two primeval institutions, kept sacred and wisely used, are the remedy for most of our social and moral evils.

These are true words; but the Sunday-sabbath no more meets the design of Jehovah for a Sabbath than does the polygamous or polyandrous family meet his design for the family. The exponent of the Sunday-sabbath tells us it is the sabbath idea—one day’s rest in seven—that is required rather than the definite seventh day of the week appointed by the Lord. So may the Mormon hold that it is the family idea that is inculcated by the Word rather than a union of one man and one woman. The one is as true as the other.