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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 6, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 22.

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Protestants, Harken!

By H. A. St. John

Let Catholics Answer

1. Which day of the week is the Sabbath of the law of God?
"Saturday was the day kept and ordered to be kept by God."—Rome's Challenge, page 11.
2. Did not Jesus change it?
"He never once HINTED at a DESIGN to change it."—Ib., page 12.
3. How did the personal friends of Christ regard the seventh-day Sabbath after His death?
"They kept holy the Saturday."—Ib., page 12.
4. How did they regard Sunday?
They "regarded the Sunday as any other day of the week."—Ib., page 12.
5. Is there not some slight INTERFERENCE with the ORIGINAL Sabbath in the New Testament?
"It is IMPOSSIBLE to find in the New Testament the SLIGHTEST INTERFERENCE by the Saviour, or His apostles, with the original Sabbath, but on the contrary, an ENTIRE ACQUIESCENCE in the ORIGINAL ARRANGEMENT."—Ib., page 13.
6. What then was the PRACTISE of Jesus?
"The Redeemer, in NO INSTANCE, during the period of His life, DEVIATED from the faithful observance of the Sabbath (Saturday)."—Ib., page 15.
7. How did He DESIGNATE Himself?
"He designated Himself LORD of the Sabbath."—Ib., page 15.
8. Did not the apostles deviate from the practise of Christ?
"The apostles for the following thirty years (Acts) NEVER DEVIATED from the practise of their divine Master in this particular, as St. Luke assures us. Acts 18: 4."—Ib., page 15.
9. How were Gentile converts instructed?
"They were instructed to keep the Saturday."—Ib., page 15.
10. What do you think of the substitution of Sunday for Saturday?
"Not a shadow of pretext can be found in the Sacred Volume for the Biblical substitution of Sunday for Saturday."—Ib., page 19.
11. Who changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?
"The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."—Ib., page 26.
12. What do you think reason and common sense demand?
"Either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping of Sunday. COMPROMISE IS IMPOSSIBLE." —Ib., page 35.
H. A. ST. JOHN.