A New Insult to the Law of God.
By Editor
We have been forced to inquire, of late, what new indignities men will invent for that day which God from the beginning reserved to himself, and which he requires men to set apart to his worship and honor. It is becoming popular with a certain class of first-day Adventists to call the Sabbath, the devil’s own day. See Incidents by the Way, by C. R. Austin, in another column. To call the sanctified and hallowed rest-day of the Lord, the “devil’s own day” looks to us like the devil’s own work. In the old heathen calendar, the seventh day was indeed called the day of Saturn, from which has come our word Saturday as the name of that day; and this fact suggests the query whether these men know the difference between Satan, the devil of the Bible, and Saturn, the old heathen deity.