Sunday Established by the Church
By Editor
SAYS the Catholic News in an article entitled, "Sunday Established by the Church":— "The Lord's day, the first day of the week, was from the first accepted by the church as a special day of prayer, not of mere cessation from work, as the Jewish Sabbath was. The sanctification of the Sunday was subsequently enforced by regulations and commandments of the church, and is sustained only by her authority." For the use of the term Lord's day, and to what day it applies, the Romanist, of course, relies on tradition. The Bible unequivocally declares that the Lord's day is the seventh day of the week, and not the first. But the News is correct, and history will bear out the statement that the first day of the week was never made a day of cessation from labor by the early church. There was morning, or forenoon, service, and then sports, games, and amusements for the rest of the day. All the sacredness that Sunday has is from the Roman Church; and how much could that church impart?