No Authority for Sunday
By E. E. Wheeler
[SOME time ago there was an article published that a certain priest, Rev. A. Gerritsma by name, pastor of St. Edwards Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, had made an offer to one Rev. Dr. Duval, offering him one thousand dollars for one text of Scripture enjoining the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, as the Sabbath given by the Lord. I wrote him and asked him if it was true that he made the offer. Here is his answer. E. E. WHEELER.] Winnipeg, February 28, 1911.
E. E. Wheeler, Esq.,
Brownlee, Idaho.
Dear Sir: In answer to yours of the 8th inst., I beg to say that I did make the offer mentioned in your letter to Rev. Dr. Duval. In my discussion with him I claimed there were 600 passages in the Bible enjoining the observance of the Sabbath day (or Saturday), and that not one passage could be found enjoining the observance of Sunday, or first day of the week, that the change of the observance of the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday had been made by the church in apostolic time. This offer was first made in St. Louis, Mo., some forty years ago, by a Jesuit father; since then hundreds of people, ministers and laymen, have tried to fulfil the condition of the offer, but have failed, because there is no such passage in the Bible. Yours truly,
A. Gerritsma.