2142.—Province of Governments.
By Editor
If the government saw fit to legislate a settled weekly cycle to commence on Monday instead of on Sunday as it now does, thereby causing Sunday to be the seventh or closing day of the week, would you then keep Saturday, the sixth day, or would you step over and worship on Sunday, the seventh day? If you say Saturday, you keep the sixth day; if you change over to Sunday, the seventh day, you admit by that that a government set it apart, and that it is simply a matter of legislation; and if so, then one day is as good as another, just so it has the seventh ring. Our correspondent has answered his own question. If you will read the articles in this and succeeding papers you will have a clearer understanding of the province of governments. The week is not a matter of human legislation in its origin. It came to us from Eden, divinely appointed of God and marked exclusively on account of the Sabbath; in fact, it is the Sabbath itself which makes the week, and in the Lord's naming of the days, followed even now in Oriental lands, the first day is "the first day to the Sabbath," "the second day to the Sabbath," "the third day to the Sabbath," "the fourth day to the Sabbath," and so on throuout the week, until we come to the crowning day, the Sabbath. Whatever legislation men may make affects in no way God's week.