The True Lord’s Day

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 14.

The True Lord’s Day

QUITE a number of ladies of Healdsburg, Cal., recently presented to a certain defender of Sunday sacredness, a memorial, in which they say, "We, the undersigned, ladies of Healdsburg, who observe Sunday as the Lord's day, desire to extend to you," etc. Evidently they wrote more truly than they designed. They do not observe the Lord's day, nor do they call Sunday such, but they "observe Sunday as the Lord's day." We may in the same way observe Monday, Tuesday, or any other day of the week, as the Lord's day.

But Sunday is always only observed as the Lord's day. It has no right to the title any more than Monday. "The seventh day," God declares, "is the Sabbath of Jehovah" (Ex. 20:8-11); the Lord calls it, "My holy day" (Isa. 58:13); and Jesus declares that he is Lord of that day. Mark 2:28. The seventh day is the Lord's day, and he who observes it according to the commandment, observes the Lord's day. The Lord's day of the Bible then is, not the first day, but the seventh day, commonly called Saturday.