p. 16 | Easily Satisfied-Why? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 44.

Easily Satisfied—Why?

By Editor

A person writes us: "God's word alone has shown me that the first day of the week is the sabbath and should be observed as such as the memorial of the most important event in the history of the world, the resurrection of Christ when he finished the work of redemption, commissioned the disciples to preach the gospel, gave them the Holy Ghost, ascended on the day which was regularly observed by the disciples for assembling themselves together and for the administering of the sacrament, and further the blessed day of the Pentecost when the Holy Ghost was poured out."

We do not wish to misrepresent, and so print as received, punctuation and all. It was Mark Twain, we believe, who thought that those who built the "Church of the Holy Sepulcher," in Jerusalem, wrought a wonderful miracle in getting so many sacred spots, so widely removed, under one roof. The same ingenuity is shown in the above grouping of events on the first day of the week. It might be well to inquire how it may be proved from the Scriptures, inferentially even, that the work of redemption was finished, the disciples commissioned to preach, or the Saviour ascended on the first day of the week. What proof have we that it was "regularly observed" as the Sabbath by the disciples? What similarity is there between the life and action of a resurrection which took place in the early morning and the holy rest of the Sabbath? To those who like that kind of proof that is about the kind of proof they like. Why will men reject the wheat of God's word for the chaff of human imagination and traditions? Why?