Quotations

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 30.

The following are a series of quotations from that new pamphlet entitled "Sunday in History" by C. H. Edwards.

Chambers Encyclopedia: Nor is there any where in the New Testament any express statement that the first day of the week was to be kept in place of the seventh, or was in any way the Sabbath. —Art. Sabbath.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher: There is no direct command on the subject. The only obligation resting upon us to observe Sunday is that which comes up through our nature. We are to do it because it is best for us, for our children, for our menservants, for our maidservants, for our beasts of burden, and for the stranger that is within our gates. Such is our duty in regard to the Sabbath day and that is deep enough, broad enough, and authoratative enough for every wise man. —Bible Studies, page 242.

Rev. S. Foster Grady, Pastor Messiah Church (Baptist), Trenton, N. J.: We observe the first day, not because the Jews were commanded to observe the seventh, but because it is for our spiritual interest to do so, because it contributes to our growth in grace, and our knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, and because apostolic example has all the force of a direct and positive precept.

Rev. Lyman Abbott: The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament. —Editorial in Christian Union, Jan. 19, 1882.

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