p. 560 | The Real Question by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 9, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 35.

The Real Question.

By Editor

A leaflet has been laid upon our table entitled "Which Are We Under, Moses or Christ—The Law or the Gospel, the Seventh Day, or the Sabbath, or the First Day, of the Week, the Lord's Day?" The whole trend of the argument (?) in the tract is to show that God's immutable law was but temporary and is abolished. A sample of its argument is the following in favor of Sunday: "The commission that has salvation for all nations was given to the apostles on the first day of the week. Matt. 28: 18, 19; Mark 16: 15, 16. Jesus ascended to heaven on the first day of the week. He sent the Spirit upon the apostles on that day. Repentance and remission of sins was first preached in Jesus' name on the first day of the week. The church of Christ was organized on the first day of the week, in the city of Jerusalem, after Christ rose from the dead." Now if all of the foregoing were true—which they are not, as can easily be shown—this would by no means prove the abrogation of God's Sabbath nor the sacredness of the first day. The real question is, Shall we follow God's word and Christ's example, or shall we follow tradition and the example of erring men?