DEAD AND ALIVE by R. F. C.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 14, 1878

DEAD AND ALIVE.

By R. F. C.

The original seventh-day Sabbath survived the cross, to which the ritual law was nailed, being kept by the disciples of Christ according to the commandment. Luke 23:56. It was acknowledged by Paul not only as the Sabbath, but as the only Sabbath, when preaching to Jews and Gentiles at Antioch in Pisidia. Acts. 13:27. He says the prophets were read in the synagogues every Sabbath; consequently he knew of no Sabbath in which the Scriptures were not read in the Jewish synagogues. This was about fourteen years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. And no writer ever called the first day of the week, or Sunday, the Sabbath, before the dark ages of the papal rule. (See all the “apostolic fathers” and all church historians.) The conclusion is that the Sunday Sabbath is the product of the dark ages.

R. F. C.