The Lord's Day

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 47.

"The Lord's Day."—"What day is it? Many call Sunday 'the Lord's Day,' and others tell us that this is not so." This is a question which is commonly asked. Now as "the Lord's day" means the day which the Lord claims as his, and as it is in its origin strictly a Bible term, where should we go but to the Bible to learn what day is the Lord's day? Here is the reply thrice told. In Isa. 58:13 the Lord calls the Sabbath "my holy day." In Mark 2:28 we read the words of Jesus, "The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." And in Ex. 20:10 is this declaration, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." This is "the seventh day" of the week, for the Sabbath comes just before "the first day of the week." Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:1, 2. What day is the Lord's day? It is the seventh-day Sabbath. Could a Bible Christian come to any other conclusion?

There are two great truths that forever ought to decide all Christians in respect to the Sabbath question and the law of God: (1) God is unchangeable, and therefore his moral law, or his law of moral conduct, is the same in all ages; and (2) the teaching and example of our blessed Lord relative to that law. Decided in the light of these truths, what day is the Sabbath?