3682 — The Round World
By W. L. H.
Would not Sunday be the day for Seventh-day Adventists to keep in America, and Monday the day for keeping Sunday, when we think of the difference of longitude? The new world was not known when the Bible was written, nor even in the apostles' time, and they were preaching to the people of the old world.
W. L. H. There is no difference in the day between the east coast of Asia and the west coast of America. One finds himself journeying eastward or westward, in respect to the days of the week, in harmony with the people of both continents. It is not until the Pacific Ocean is crossed that the day changes, and that was not crossed until later generations; and when it was crossed, navigators had come to that knowledge that was necessary in the dropping or adding of a day, and there has been no trouble, to any extent, at all since that time in keeping track of the days of the week. No one has any trouble whatever in finding out when the first day of the week begins, and the seventh day of the week comes just before the first day of the week. And some of our Sunday friends are so little troubled about that, that they are exceedingly anxious to secure a universal Sunday law for the entire world. Now the Lord knew the world was round when He created it, knew that men would be scattered all over the world, and knew also that with His great time clock, the sun, they would have no trouble in keeping the Sabbath, and neither have they. The real question, or objection, does not come against Seventh-day Adventists; it comes against the Word. Take two texts, for instance, upon this: one in Mark 2:27, "The Sabbath was made for man;" the other in Acts 17:24-26, "God that made the world and all things therein, . . . hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation." It is this God who has said, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God."