The Change of the Sabbath
DR. BRUCE, in his book, "The Training of the Twelve," page 97, makes an acknowledgment that is worth noting. After concluding that the change of the Sabbath was wrought by the church, he says:— "How this change was brought about we do not well know. Probably it was accomplished by degrees, and without consciousness of the transition which was being made on its import. From the beginning believers seem to have met for worship on that first day of the week; but there is no evidence that they rested entirely from work on that day." "The likelihood is that the first Christians rested on the seventh day as Jews." This is as good evidence for Sunday as Dr. Bruce could produce. And of this he is not at all certain. His evidence rests on a "seem" or a "probably," and it was all done "without consciousness" that they were changing the day. But is this the way God does things?—Nay, verily. He has declared his will over and over again, and a first-day Sabbath is no part of it. But what of the seventh day?