A Sunday Argument Illustrated.
The Lord always called that day of the week upon which he rested, the seventh day. And this was the Sabbath of the Lord—the day upon which he rested from his work of creation. But some are so determined to have their own way, and elevate the first day over the seventh, that they say that that day was properly the first day. Dropping out of the account that it was Jehovah's seventh day in creation week, they solemnly proclaim that, though Adam was created on the sixth day, he never saw the whole of that sixth day, and therefore the seventh was his first complete day; and therefore man's first day is the Sabbath, and therefore not that self-same day—the true seventh day—but another day, the original first day of the week, is the Sabbath. Probably logic never run riot so wildly in all the world before. The Scriptures never make mention of the first day that Adam saw; but the testimony of the Scriptures is of little worth in the estimation of Sunday people. Sunday must be upheld by some means; and the greatest absurdity is grasped with the greatest avidity if it only has the appearance of giving aid to the cause of the venerable day of the sun. We lately struck an excellent parallel to this Adam's first-day argument. A bright little girl went to Sunday-school. Her catechism had been neglected at home, and the teacher commenced the work. "My pa," was the ready reply. "Oh, no," said the teacher, "your pa was not the first man." "Well, he was the first man I ever saw, anyway," was the decisive answer. Was not the little girl right? Her pa was the first man as surely as the original Sabbath—the seventh day—was the first day.