Where to Find the Sabbath.
By Editor
SOME people say that so many ages have elapsed since Moses' time, that it is impossible to say that our Saturday is the seventh day of the week. The Memorial has frequently taken special pains to show that the nations have always known enough to count seven—and have been uniform in their reckoning of the seven days of the week—that in divine and profane religions the number seven is sacred—too much so to be tampered with when measuring time; the reckoning of months and of years has varied, but not that of the week, which is so short, simple, and divine, that the great Author of it has preserved it intact among the nations through their own natural customs. That the week, as a record of time, has come down to our day in a perfect form, is abundantly proved by scores of ancient and modern languages. These remarks are made as preface to a definition of the term Sabbath, which our Syrian friend, N. Giamaal, Esq., kindly pointed out to us one day at the reading-room of the British Museum. The authority that describes where the Sabbath-day is to be found, is an Arabic Lexicon, in two folio volumes, by Mr. Butrus al-Bistany, a Syrian, and an eminent Arabic scholar. The title of the Lexicon is "Mooheet al-Mooheet," or Ocean of Oceans—published at Beirut in 1870. The description of the whereabouts of the day, is as follows:— "As-Sabt—[or the Sabbath]—a day BETWEEN yom el-juma—[or day of the Assembly—i. e., our Friday] and yom el-ahad, [or First day—our Sunday]; or in a literally equivalent rendering thus: ‘The Sabbath, a day BETWEEN Friday and Sunday.'" There! "ye blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel," don't say any more that you don't know where to find the Sabbath-day!—Sabbath Memorial.