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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 28.

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A New Commandment.

By R. M. Kilgore

THE Student, a paper published by the Disciples at Thorp's Springs, Texas, furnishes us with the following, which strongly intimates that they believe the sacredness of Sunday is violated by the manner in which even Christians observe it here in Texas:—
“Remember, on the first day of the week do all thy visiting. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the first day of the week is the Lord's day; therefore, on it thou shalt not work, but shalt do all thy visiting and looking after thy cattle and thy horses and thy sheep. And shalt talk about thy neighbors and neighbors' children, and about thy crops and thy money that thou hast made and art going to make. Thus thou and thy wife and thy son and his wife and thy neighbors and their wives shall gather together and pass the Lord's day. For remember that thou wast a slave in the state of sin—dead in trespasses and in sin. And the Lord brought thee out with a high and an outstretched arm; therefore, the Lord thy God commands that thou forsake not the assembling of yourselves together for these purposes as the manner of some is.”
Now let them produce a “thus saith the Lord” that the first day of the week should be regarded as a sacred day to any extent whatever; then they will be consistent. Will they do it? No; it is impossible, for it is not in the Book. Will they give us a text which says that the first day of the week is the Lord's day? No; it cannot be done. Will they give the text which commands Christians to meet together for worship on the first day of the week? No; it is not in the Bible. The Bible says there is a “Lord's day” this side of the cross, Rev. 1:10, and it tells us plainly that “the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord,” Ex. 20:9; that he is Lord of the Sabbath, Mark 2:28; and that he calls it his “holy day,” Isa. 58:13. The Sabbath is the Lord's day. R. M. KILGORE.