NOT very many years ago, by far the greater part of the people believed that their ministers could readily turn to texts in the Bible which would show that Christ and the apostles had changed the Sabbath from Saturday, the seventh day of the week, to Sunday, the first day. We used to hear it affirmed, on every hand, that such a change had been made. But when persons were asked to show the Bible text or texts that prove it, these could not be found. One of the texts, however, that has often been used in the attempt to show that Sunday was observed by the early church, is the following: “Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gathering when I come.” 1 Cor. 16: 1, 2. The argument was made, from this text, that since they were commanded to lay by a certain portion of their earnings on the first day of the week, therefore they had gone to church on Sunday, and a collection was taken up for the poor at Jerusalem. Several important things in the statement, however, do not occur in the text. In the first place, it says nothing about a meeting; and in the second place it says nothing concerning a collection to be taken at such a meeting. Indeed, the language of the text forbids such a thing as a general collection in public. It says, “Let every one of you lay by him in store.” The individual who “lays by him in store” is not putting his funds in the contribution box. Some of the modern translations of this text, which give the idea of the original in modern speech, will help to make very clear just what the text says. For instance, the New Testament in Modern Speech gives verse 2 as follows: “On the first day of every week let each of you put on one side and store up at his home whatever gain has been granted to him; so that whenever I come, there may then be no collections going on.” The Twentieth Century Version gives the same text thus: “On the first day of every week each of you should put by what he can afford, so that no collections need be made after I have come.” The language of the text shows the exact opposite of the popular contention. It shows that in place of the people being assembled on that day, they were at their homes transacting business; and in their homes they were to lay by whatever they could spare, for the relief of the suffering brethren at Jerusalem. There is no means whatever by which that text can be made to set aside the Sabbath law of the great Jehovah. That law is specific in saying that the seventh day is the Sabbath; and it has never been supplanted, as divine authority, by any other commandment.