A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE SABBATH.
By S. N. Haskell
The Sabbath of the Lord is mentioned in the Bible one hundred and forty times; eighty-one times in the Old Testament, and fifty-nine times in the New, more than two-thirds the number of times it is mentioned in the Old Testament. The Old Testament including the Psalms, contains eight hundred and twenty-nine chapters, while the New Testament contains only two hundred and sixty. Discount forty-nine chapters in the Old Testament for the shortness of some of the Psalms, and we have only one-third the amount of reading in the New Testament, while the Sabbath of the Lord is mentioned two-thirds the number of times; or in other words, one-third more number of times in the New Testament in the same amount of reading; while the first-day is mentioned but eight times in the New Testament, and six of those eight refer to one particular first-day. The other two times in which the first-day is mentioned is only incidental, once as a business day, and once, as a day on which an evening meeting was held, yet there are thousands who conscientiously think that first-day observance is taught in the New Testament. S. N. HASKELL.