Question Corner

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 1, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 48.

“Enquire and make search and ask diligently.”

NOTE.— We wish those who ask questions to take particular notice: (1) Only such questions will be answered here as we believe to be of general interest and information. (2) We can not undertake to explain from four to a dozen scriptures, as in one sentence we are often requested to do. (3) Do not ask to “explain” a certain text or passage. State clearly the point in question. (4) Give full name and address, not for publication unless desired, but as evidence of good faith, and to give us the privilege of replying by letter if deemed best. (5) Unsigned communications of any kind find the quickest way to the waste-basket. (6) It is always well to inclose stamp. (7) “Foolish and unlearned questions avoid,” also those that minister to mere curiosity. (8) Study the Scriptures yourselves.

891. The Lord’s Supper.

Why not have the Lord’s Supper every Sabbath? H. E. L.

We know no reason if a church thinks best. “As often as ye eat,” etc., the Word reads. Of course the frequency and time of the ordinances must be settled by the church or congregation where these ordinances are held.

892. The Week.

IS IT a fact, as I have read, that nearly all nations possessed the weekly division of time? W.

Most of them; and any reliable cyclopedia on the subject will so inform you. For example, under “Week,” Smith’s Bible Dictionary says: “Its [the week’s] antiquity is so great, its observance so widespread, and it occupies so important a place in sacred things, that it has been very generally thrown back as far as the creation of man.” The article then goes on to name, among the nations and races which have the week, “all the Shemitic races,” Egyptians, Hindus, “It has been found in China, either universally or among the Buddhists; the Peruvians had it, or a division all but identical with it,” the Romans and Greeks adopting it later, perhaps, than these other nations. See “The Lord’s Day, the Test of the Ages” (pp. 18–21), for other testimony.