p. 36 | WHICH SUNDAY? by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1876

WHICH SUNDAY?

By Uriah Smith

The Oswego Daily Palladium says:—

Some of the pagan newspapers of the West have started a new question in regard to the Centennial. As “all the world” is coming to the exhibition, and as the commission have determined to close it on Sunday, they ask which Sunday shall it be? If the attempt is made to please every nation represented, the gates will have to be closed every day during the week. The Greek’s Sunday is our Monday; the Persian’s, Tuesday; the Assyrian’s, Wednesday; the Egyptian’s, Thursday; the Turk’s, Arab’s, and all Mahommedan nations’, Friday; the Jew’s and the Seventh-day Baptist’s Saturday, and the Christian’s generally, Sunday. Nevertheless, gentlemen, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.”

The flippant remark with which this paragraph closes seems designed to convey the idea

that the command to keep the Sabbath is responsible for all this; which is just as far as possible from the truth. This confusion is not God’s work. An enemy hath done this. And this shows how men turn their backs upon harmony and union when they turn away from God. God has appointed but one Sabbath, not seven. And this is not the Jew’s and Seventh-day Baptist’s Sunday, but the Lord’s Sabbath. When men will turn to that, the seventh day, they have some authority for their position. All else is either human or worse. U. S.