Sabbatarian or Saturdarian

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 19.

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Sabbatarian or Saturdarian

Wilbur F. Crafts finds fault with the Occident for speaking of those who keep Saturday as the Sabbath as Sabbatarians. He says: "That term is more properly applied to all who believe that 'there remains a keeping of the Sabbath to the people of God,' as contrasted with those who deny the present and perpetual authority of the fourth commandment. I suggest as a name for those who make a fetich of Saturday, Saturdarians." Mr. Crafts may suggest what he pleases, but it will nevertheless be true that the term Sabbatarian belongs alone to those who observe the Sabbath, and according to the Scriptures of truth, and the fourth commandment, which he professes to revive, "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord." Mr. Crafts well knows that while the first day of the week is a (man-made) sabbath it is not the Sabbath. If he could place his finger upon any divine law for its observance he would not be so zealous for a civil law to enforce a religious institution.