p. 816 | The Lord's Day by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 51.

“The Lord's Day.”

By Editor

Last week we printed in our editorial department an article on the Lord's day from the Biblical standpoint. This week we print another, on the same subject, which the exigency of “make-up” has thrown into our department of General Articles. In it the subject is discussed from the standpoint of the “Fathers,” about which volumes might be written and nothing learned save that the “Fathers” are most unreliable, and everything and nothing may be proved from them. It is interesting to note that the first writer (Tertullian), who with certainty applies the term “Lord's day” to the first day of the week, classes it with certain postures in prayer, offerings for the dead, and the sign of the cross. But as Brother Glenn has said in his article, although all the “Fathers” adhered to Sunday, it would not add “a feather's weight to the silence of the New Testament concerning the first day, nor take from the abundant Bible evidence for the Sabbath.” “Let God be true,” though it make the “Fathers” all liars.