Born Tired by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 23.

Born Tired

By Editor

WE have often heard it said of persons that they were "born tired," but it remained for the Sunday-law advocates to demonstrate that such was the case with Adam. Their "last ditch" argument is that the first day (Sunday) is the true seventh day; or that the seventh day was man's first day. True, the Bible says that man was created on the sixth day, but the Bible is nothing when it crosses a good Sunday argument. We'll admit for the moment that the seventh day was man's first day. Col. Shepard, president of the American Sabbath Union, says: "We observe the first day, and for aught that is known to the contrary it may be the very hebdomadal of the day that Adam observed. The Sabbath was his first day, and he was prepared by his first day of rest for six days of labor." We were at a loss (on the theory of physical rest being the object of the Sabbath) to see how Adam should so much need that first day's rest in order to be prepared to go to work. But a friend has kindly helped us out of the difficulty by suggesting that probably he was born tired.