Sunday School Lesson and the Sabbath
On a Sabbath day Jesus and his disciples went through the cornfield, and the disciples being hungry they plucked some ears of corn and ate them. For this the Pharisees made complaint against them to Jesus. On the next Sabbath day Jesus healed a man with a withered hand. With these incidents as a lesson, a certain Sunday school paper propounds the following questions:— "Where did Jesus and the disciples go one Sunday morning? What did the disciples do? Why did they do this? Who found fault with them? What did Jesus say to the fault-finders? Whom did Jesus see in the synagogue on another Sabbath? What did he do for the poor man? What day have we now in place of the Sabbath? How should we spend it? In memory of what great event do we keep the Lord's day?" The further question arises, Is this attempt to substitute Sunday for the Sabbath a result of the lesson writer's ignorance, or was it his deliberate purpose to deceive the children? Is it possible that one sane man could have written the first question and the third from the last?