COUNTERFEIT SABBATH

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1879

“COUNTERFEIT SABBATH.”

Mrs. Ellen Pease writes to the Central Baptist some letters defending the Sunday against the charge of the Seventh-day Adventists that the Christian Sabbath is a “Counterfeit Sabbath.” She first charges the Adventists with excessive proselytism, not seeming to remember that this is the charge so often made against Baptists by pedo-Baptists, when they find themselves unable to defend their practice in regard to baptism. Every sect that raises up the standard of reform is met in this way by those whose errors they would correct. That in certain instances these professed reformers may have been over-zealous may be possible, as this would be natural for us who inherit the weakness of the flesh; but we have noticed that generally when this charge is brought, it is to hide an indefensible point. In this case it is clearly a confession of weakness.

Mrs. Pease next comes to the defense of the “Christian Sabbath,” but at the beginning says that “its observers are not positive that Christ arose on this very day” from the dead, though it is on this account they keep it. She then goes on to quote the usual texts named on this subject, and makes upon them the comments so common; but from the beginning to the end shows herself not an original thinker, but a follower of others. If these lines should fall under her notice, will she please tell us where the phrase “Christian Sabbath” may be found in the Bible?—Sabbath Recorder.