Authority for Sunday Observance
In a letter to the New York Sun “Father Tiernan,” of Camden, N. Y., raises the question of the proper authority for the observance of the first day of the week, in this manner:— I have just read the report of the innovation requested by the Rev. Dr. Warren H. Wilson, of the Arlington Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, that the two hundred women of his congregation remove their hats during the service. I would ask the Rev. Dr. Wilson and the thirty women who refused to remove their hats whether the Quakers, the Jews, or the Bible, in its New Testament reference to the verses of 1 Corinthians, have for Christendom made this law, which has been observed in church for nearly nineteen hundred years? May it not be that neither the Bible nor the private judgment of men on the Bible has made this dogmatic custom as well as the observance of the first day of the week instead of the Sabbath?