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It Is Not the Sabbath

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 5, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 23.

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It Is Not the Sabbath.

The Christian Advocate, and other papers similarly, in referring to the opening of the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition on Sunday, speak of it as “The Sabbath again Officially Dishonored.” But Sunday is not the Sabbath. It is not the day of the Sabbath. It has no characteristics of the Sabbath in its commencement or closing, or in the character of the day. Its very name is stolen from the Sabbath of the Lord. The Sabbath is dishonored by the exposition, but so it is by business everywhere. “The seventh day [not the first] is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.”