WHAT SATISFIED HER? by A. S. Hutchins

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1878

WHAT SATISFIED HER?

By A. S. Hutchins

TRAVELING in a stage coach some weeks since, one of the passengers affirmed that the first day of the week was the Sabbath. Said she, “We know that Christ changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, and if I had my Bible here, I could prove it.”

Reaching forward to my trunk to take mine therefrom, she quickly remarked, “You need not take out your Bible.” Said I, please excuse me, lady, if I do so; and I will, with your permission, read every text of the New Testament where the expression first-day occurs, and you shall tell me which one of these texts teaches the change of the Sabbath, as you have stated.

This was readily agreed upon. Pausing once or twice, while passing through the list, I asked, Have I read the text you have in your mind yet? She responded, “No.” And when she had the list before her, what did she say? for she did not dare claim one of them as sustaining her assertion. “Well,” said the lady, “I don’t care. The first day of the week is the Sabbath, and I am satisfied.” What satisfies such minds?

A. S. HUTCHINS.