Jews Considering a Change of Sabbath
IN a recent issue the New York Sun said:— "It is a curious fact that while even the reformed Jews of New York are averse to changing their Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, those in smaller cities throughout the country have come to a point where they are seriously considering the subject. A Jewish newspaper of character and standing in the interior of this State is championing such a change, and advancing arguments, drawn from the Bible itself, to prove its position. The main point put forth by it and the other champions of the change is that the observance of Saturday as a Sabbath is certain to become almost obsolete in this country, and that unless the Jews want to see their religion gradually fade away, they should take into consideration the drift of modern opinions and the ways of the modern man." Upon this the Truth Seeker (infidel) remarks:— "We should like to see the argument drawn from the Jewish Scriptures which sustains a change of day for the Jewish Sabbath. It must be unique if nothing more." Any argument of the kind would do violence to the Jewish Scriptures, just as all arguments for the change of the Sabbath do violence to the Christian Scriptures. It is only better than do the other arguments. Such arguments are not a mere statement of the infidelity that