Mid-Week by R. F. Cottrell

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 28, 1878

Mid-Week.

By R. F. Cottrell

As I was conversing with a German lady on the subject of the Sabbath, she admitted that the commandment requires the seventh day, but raised the question, as is common with others, How can we tell which is the seventh day? I replied that Germans certainly ought to be able to answer that question; for they give names to each day of the week similar to the names we give them in English, so that they have the sun's day, the moon's day, etc., calling each one a day, except Wednesday, which they call, not Woden's day, but mit-woche, equivalent to mid-week. Now if Wednesday is the middle day of a week of seven days, it is not a hard task to count from it back to the first, or forward to the seventh. The Germans have driven a stake here which it is difficult for after considerations and modern inventions to remove.

R. F. Cottrell.