p. 16 | Sabbath and Sunday

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 35.

Sabbath and Sunday

Sabbath and Sunday.—A writer in the Chicago Record-Herald of August 10 declares that the time has come when “some one should enter a protest against the indiscriminate use of the two words, ‘Sunday,’ and ‘Sabbath.’ The land is filled with preachers, editors, and writers who seem to have no clear conception that the words designate two distinct days, and should not be used interchangeably, for scriptural, legal, and sensible reasons.”

Then after speaking of the more correct use by lawyers, he concludes:—

Then let us all remember that it is neither scriptural, legal, nor sensible to write or speak of “the Sabbath” when we mean “Sunday,” or “the first day of the week,” or “Lord’s day.”

But this writer is just as badly off as those he criticises, for he makes the Lord’s day to be Sunday, when the uniform testimony of Scripture, inferential and positive, is that the Lord’s day is the Sabbath, and that Sunday, in any holy, scriptural guise whatsoever, is a usurper.