Samoans Keep Saturday for Sunday
By Editor
IN the article "Samoa," reproduced from that excellent little journal, the Missionary Echo, it is stated that the Samoans are strict Sabbath observers. By Sabbath the writer evidently means Sunday; but the Samoans really keep the seventh day, Saturday, but they keep it for Sunday. Sometimes Sabbath-keepers are asked, "Do you keep Saturday for Sunday?" The answer is, No; we keep the day called Saturday, not for Sunday, or any other day, but for the Sabbath, because it, and it alone, the seventh day, is the Sabbath. Ex. 20:10. But the Samoans keep Saturday for Sunday. The missionaries who carried them the day did not understand the matter of changing the reckoning of the day, and hence taught the people the wrong reckoning of the week. May God speed the time when the whole truth shall be proclaimed to the Bible-loving Samoans, and a people gathered out from these islands, prepared for the coming of the King.