The Sabbath Memorial by William Clarence White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1875

The Sabbath Memorial.

By William Clarence White

THE July number of the Sabbath Memorial is just received. This is its third number, and although a little sheet contains much that is of interest to a lover of the Sabbath cause.

One of the noticeable features is a chart showing the names of the days of the week in twenty different languages of Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, in which the seventh day of the week is called the Sabbath. In the Hebrew, Arabic, Abyssinian, and Maylay, the days are numbered one, two, three, four, etc., and in the Persian and Hindostan, One from the Sabbath, Two from the Sabbath, etc., with these exceptions, that the Maylay, Hindostan, Persian, and Arabic call the sixth day, Assembly day, and that in all these languages the seventh day is called the Sabbath. The chart shows that the loss of a day in one or more nation is impossible, because in all nations there is perfect agreement in the numbering of the days of the week.

The Memorial reports the arrival of Eld. N. Wardner, S. D. Baptist Missionary from America, whose labors for the present are to be directed to Scotland and Ireland.

Of his labors from March to July, 1875, Eld. W. M. Jones, the publisher of the Memorial, makes the following report: "There has been received from friends in England, Scotland, and Ireland, £11 14s. 10d.; from Seventh Day Baptists in America, £10 10s.; and from Seventh Day Adventists, £8 2s. 7d.; total, £30 7s. 5d. This sum has been expended on hundreds of posted letters and parcels, on several boxes and parcels from our publishing societies, and in printing over 7,000 copies of the Memorial, and 5,000 copies of 'Mr. Moody not a Jew.'"

His address is William Mead Jones, 15, Mill Yard, Goodman's Fields, London, Eng.

W. C. W.