A Parallel Case

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 28.

A Parallel Case.—Referring to an article in the Missionary World, the Examiner (Baptist, of New York) of June 23 says:—

“An eminent Baptist scholar once said that our Pedobaptist friends could write books and pamphlets and editorials in defense of their unscriptural mode of baptism to the end of time, but there was one thing they could not do, namely, translate the Greek word baptizein. But it seems that they can mistranslate it, as has been done in China, or they can translate it into foreign tongues—a process against which Baptists, from the time of Judson until now, have uniformly protested—or they can alter a long-accepted and confessedly faithful version, in the interest, not of truth, but of denominationalism. For various reasons, the majority of Baptists in England and America have been content to fight their battle for the truth under the time-honored Anglicized word ‘baptize;’ but they have always held that a new translation of the Bible into a foreign tongue should be a true translation, and from this position they can not recede without recreancy to the Word of God.”

And this is as true respecting the Sabbath. The Word of God knows but one weekly Sabbath, or Lord’s day, but, nevertheless, the Word is warped and twisted to make it mean what God does not say, and in some translations “Lord’s day” is translated “Sunday.” Let God be true, tho it make every man a liar.