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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 24.

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Attention, Sunday!

By C. S.

The Sunday question is becoming a prominent subject of discussion in many parts of the land. Some of our exchanges are devoting to it no little space and attention. The present December number of The Christian Press, has a long article entitled, “The Duty of the Civil Government with Respect to the Sabbath,” in which it strongly urges the government to enforce by law the strict observance of Sunday upon all classes of society. It rests the obligation of Sunday observance upon the fourth commandment in these opening words:—
“Evangelical Christians, with few exceptions, are agreed respecting the wisdom and duty of obedience to the fourth commandment.”
The Christian at Work, of Dec. 2, 1875 also has an article upon this subject, in which it manifests a commendable hesitancy in regard to “believing the observance of the first day of the week to rest upon the command to keep the seventh.” Sound so far. Yet it repeatedly applies the fourth commandment title, Sabbath, to the first-day institution, Sunday.
A great awakening is before this land on this subject, in which people will be astonished to see that there is no Scripture foundation whatever for an institution which has so long held sway in the Christian world. When people appeal to the fourth commandment for authority for Sunday-keeping, they show that their minds have not yet passed the period of early cock-crowing in the examination of this matter. But they would do well to open their eyes fast; for the broad light of day is now shining upon the Sabbath question, which will put the Sunday rest-day to its wits end to find a plea for existence. C. S.