p. 384 | Where Is the Sunday Decree? by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jun 24, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 24.

Where Is the Sunday Decree?

By Editor

THE tent-meetings in Melbourne, Australia, are attracting so much attention that the pastors of some of the churches have gotten up a poster which they imagine will turn the tide away from the tent. At the head of the poster are the words, "Christians Beware!" and then, after Acts 15:24–29; 17:4, comes this conundrum: "Where is the decree to keep holy the Sabbath day?" That's easy. Here's the answer: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." Ex. 20:8–10. There we have the decree to keep holy the Sabbath, as given by Jehovah himself. Moreover, the decree is very particular to specify the day of the Sabbath. And now we have a question to propound to the Melbourne pastors, or to any others, which will not be so easy to answer. It is this: Where is the decree to keep holy the Sunday? If the answer does not take more than five times as much space as ours does, we will publish it.