Correct by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 25.

Correct.

By Editor

A BROTHER sends us a Lutheran paper which has been sent to him from Virginia, which contains a short article entitled, "Say 'Sunday.'" In it the question, "Is it right to say Sabbath when you mean Sunday?" is thus answered: "The sum of it all is, when you mean Sunday, say Sunday, and not Sabbath. It has a twang of Puritanic putting on, for people to say Sabbath when they do not mean Sabbath at all. The Sabbath is Saturday, not Sunday." Again we say, Correct.

The remainder of the article is a tirade against those who hold to the "old Sabbath," charging them with hating Christ, and disbelieving that he rose from the dead. This ill-natured assertion is unworthy of notice; but we would like to ask the writer one question, "You say that Saturday, and not Sunday, is the Sabbath; now where in the Bible is there any commandment or authority of any kind for the observance of Sunday? Where do we find such a day mentioned? If you cannot find it, what warrant have you for keeping it? We do find, however, a very explicit command, often repeated, to keep holy the Sabbath, and we propose to obey it until somebody can show us better authority than the ten commandments for a change."