Three Sundays! by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 13, 1883

Three Sundays!

By Editor

THE following deeply interesting item we find in an exchange:—

"In the city of Jerusalem three Sundays are observed every week. The Mohammedans observe Friday, not by closing their shops and resting, but by going to the mosque at certain hours and reciting prayers. The Jews observe Saturday, being very strict as to their conformity to ancient custom and ordinance. They close their shops and are not often seen in the streets until afternoon. Then they appear in their best clothes. Sunday is observed by the Christians of various denominations. On that day the flags fly from the consulates of the Christian nations."

Why say three Sundays, rather than three Fridays or three Saturdays? The writer says some keep Friday, some keep Saturday, and some keep Sunday, and so all together they keep three Sundays, and all in one week! Verily, we should think by his speech the writer has been in Babylon and mistaken it for Jerusalem.