Sunday Observance in Russia
The New York Christian Advocate says:— "Twelve hundred St. Petersburg merchants have declared themselves willing to close their places of business on Sunday, with a view of keeping the day as it is understood in the United States and Great Britain. The movement cannot succeed. The Greek Church compels cessation of work in whole or in part on more than seventy man-made holidays. Until this is reformed the people will have to work on Sunday." And what is Sunday but a man-made holiday, or a man-made holy day? And why not keep Sunday according to the Bible, instead of "as understood in the United States and Great Britain"? The answer is not far to see, it is simply because the Scriptures know nothing of Sunday observance. Another thought: If the people of Russia cannot keep Sunday because they are compelled to partially keep seventy other days, how can the assertion so glibly made by Sunday-law advocates, be true, that compulsory Sunday observance works no hardship on those who observe the seventh day?