First of All, as to Sunday
By Editor
First of All, as to Sunday.—Sunday is just as good as Monday, or Tuesday, or Wednesday, or any other common day of the week. There is, therefore, no harm in having the Bible taught on Sunday, or any other day of the week. In fact, good ought to result from properly teaching the Bible at all times, and preparing lessons for all days. And the International Sunday-school lessons, which many of our readers study and teach—not a few of whom do not know or keep the Sabbath—are generally excellent lessons in matter, if not always in method. It is, therefore, good to teach the lessons on any day, and to publish them for any day, the same as all other Bible lessons. The only way Sunday is made an evil is to assume for it the place of the Sabbath of the Lord. This assumption is wrong, and this also the SIGNS OF THE TIMES’ lessons pointed out. Sunday is not the Sabbath nor the Lord’s Day, and its claim to such honors is false and subversive. As plain Sunday or first-day it is as good as Monday. But we would be the narrowest of bigots not to recognize the good that Sunday-schools have done, from Robert Raikes to the present time, and we heartily wish that the great pleasure-loving, ease-loving mass of people who spend Sunday for wholly selfish pleasures, would spend a part of the day, at least, in genuine Bible study. It would make them better Christians, and bring them to the Sabbath which Jesus taught and kept. But this is not to say that Sunday is a holy day, or that any act of man could make it holy. Neither would it be right by civil law to seek to compel people to keep Sunday. Christians are not made by law, but by the power of the ingrafted Word.