“Sunday,” Called “Sabbath.”
OVERLOOKING the fact that the writer is quite as much mixed in calling Sunday the Lord’s day, as his Presbyterian friends are in calling it Sabbath, the following from the Examiner and Chronicle is very good:— “Nowhere in Christendom has the Lord’s day, or Sunday, been confounded with the Sabbath, except in Scotland and among the English Puritans. In Cromwell’s time the notion gained ground that Sunday was a “heathenish” name, and the same impulse that led Puritans to reject “heathen” prænomens and choose Bible names like Maher-shalal-hash-baz for their children, led them also to apply the misnomer Sabbath to Sunday. This is the only historical ground for the confounding of the two names.”