Suggested Falsehood by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 23, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 37.

Suggested Falsehood.

By Editor

We do not know what milder term to call the following extract from a preacher whose syndicate sermons are world-wide:—

"It is the first Saturday afternoon in the world's existence. Ever since sunrise Adam has been watching the brilliant pageantry of wings and scales and clouds, and in his first lessons in zoology and ornithology and ichthyology he has noticed that the robins fly in the air in twos, and that the fish swim the waters in twos, and that the lions walk the fields in twos, and in the warm redolence of that Saturday afternoon he falls off into slumber; and, as if by allegory, to teach all ages that the greatest of earthly blessings is sound sleep, this paradisaical somnolence ends with the discovery on the part of Adam of a corresponding intelligence just landed on a new planet. Of the mother of all the living I speak—Eve, the first, the fairest, and the best."

Now, what is the object of using that expression, "Saturday afternoon," unless it be to teach that Saturday was the sixth day, and Sunday, the day following, the seventh. There is no truth in the suggestion, and every Bible student knows it. It was on the sixth day that Adam and Eve came from their Creator's hand. On the seventh day, what a Roman would call Saturday, was God's rest and origination of the Sabbath.