Sunday Desecration and the Sabbath Commandment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1900

Sunday Desecration and the Sabbath Commandment

AS USUAL, the Presbyterian General Assembly of this year bemoaned “the increasing desecration” of the Sunday. Remarking upon it, the New York Sun well says: “Theologians of the church itself have been treating the decalogue as a merely human document, containing laws applicable only to a pastoral tribe not yet far advanced from barbarism. The divine authority of the Sabbath commandment is denied, and consequently the universal religious obligation to obey it. Sunday, too, is not historically the Sabbath to which the commandment applies.”