The Creation Days and the Sabbath
Christianity declares—it doesn't argue the point—that the Holy Scriptures, as comprised in the Book known as the Holy Bible, are “given by inspiration of God,” and are therefore infallible evidence concerning every subject of which they treat. Therefore the Christian must implicitly believe that “in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.” According to the infallible Word, these are irrefutable facts. These days were days marked by evenings and mornings. They were days marked by alternate darkness and light. From the fourth day onward the division between the darkness and the light was especially marked by the appearance and disappearance of the sun. But the darkness and the light were regularly separated, and evening and morning were regularly discerned before the making of the sun as the light-bearer. While the word “day” is sometimes used to signify times or seasons of greater or less duration, no other regular succession of definite days are known excepting the days of twenty-four hours. This fact establishes the correlative fact that the seventh day, which the Creator set apart and blessed, was a day of twenty-four hours—an evening and morning like the other six days. Thus is established the further fact that the setting apart of this seventh day was the establishment forever of a memorial institution, which should be a sign between the Creator and His commandment-keeping people. See Ex. 31:12-17.