Sunday Is Not the Sabbath
OH, say our Sunday-law friends, if the people of this Christian country would only “remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” (keep Sunday), then God’s favor would rest upon them, because God’s command is obeyed! But the fourth commandment of the Decalogue cannot be obeyed by keeping Sunday. Eve could as well have called the tree of knowledge of good and evil by some other name, and substituted some other tree for it, and claimed that she obeyed God. Naaman’s choice of the rivers of Abana and Pharpar in preference to Jordan River, and Nadab and Abihu’s use of the strange fire instead of the holy, were not wrong if the substitution of Sunday for the Sabbath is right. But we know they were wrong, and we know that Sunday is not the Sabbath, because God says that another day is the Sabbath.