Questions About the Sabbath Commandment
By Editor
AMONG other things the Congregationalist asks Sunday-school superintendents and teachers, “How many of your pupils can repeat the . . . ten commandments,” and says, “this is a fair question to ask.” Yes, that is a fair question, and there is another which we are sure is just as fair. Suppose that next Sunday the pupils should repeat the ten commandments correctly; and having repeated the word of God, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,” &c., should they ask this “fair question,” Why do we not keep the seventh day? what would be the superintendents’ and teachers’ answer? What would be the Congregationalist’s answer? If the answer should be, as we have often heard, “It has been changed,” would that be a fair answer? If so, then is it fair to have the children learn in the very words of the Lord that “the seventh day is the Sabbath,” and then have them unlearn it as soon as repeated? These are “fair questions to ask” every one who teaches Sunday-keeping.