HOW "ESTABLISH SUNDAY"?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 1, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 9.

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HOW "ESTABLISH SUNDAY"?

The Christian Work says with characteristic candor:—
"Those brethren who are trying to make out that the Sabbath and Sunday were identical terms with the apostles are climbing a very steep hill. Even the apostles attended the temple and synagog at first. It was later, as the Christians became separated from the Jews, that Sunday took the place of Saturday. Sunday is the one holy day of rest and worship we want. And we can have it without trying to establish it on a fictitious basis."
Yes, "it was later," way down in the flood of incoming corruptions, well on toward the Dark Ages. But God never made any such transposition of Sunday in the place of Saturday. But, again, how can Sunday be "a holy day"? Man can not make it sacred or holy, and God never has so made it. But on what basis will the Christian Work establish it? It can not on the Word of God; for there is no ground for Sunday there. Even hoary tradition is against its sacredness. The only hope of establishing Sunday is by civil law; but all will find at last that civil law as a basis of religious dogma, creed, or institution is a miserable failure; it is the basis of politics, a fictitious basis. The only Sabbath of the Bible is the seventh day. The sabbath of tradition and force is the Sunday.