What reason have you for teaching that the day-line is in the Pacific Ocean? A student here claims that there is no certainty as to where it is. P. P. C.
The day-line has been fixed in God's providence in the Pacific Ocean. The day began, of course, in Eden as the world was before the Flood. At that time there seems to be good evidence from Genesis 1 that there was only one body of land, and one of water, for the waters were gathered together to one place. Noah carried the day with him through the Flood, and after the Deluge was over, he, of course, kept the day as he had carried it, clearly marked by divisions of seven, while in the ark. See Genesis 6, 7, 8. The ark rested in western Asia. From there the children of men spread out over the habitable portions of the earth, carrying the day with them wherever they went, eastward, northward, southward, westward, and that day has been preserved in that way to the present time. Beginning on the eastern edge of the Eastern Continent and going westward, we are in harmony with all peoples as regards the days of the week, that is, if they have any week at all, until we reach the Pacific Ocean. Here there may be a few mistakes in some of the islands of the sea in consequence of the way in which the week came to them by navigators, but as a general thing there is perfect harmony throughout the world, and all ship-masters, traders, and scholars in general are agreed in fixing the day-line in the Pacific Ocean; so that every ship in crossing either adds a day or drops a day from its reckoning, depending on the way it is going. Trying to fix a day-line anywhere else in the world throws the world into unutterable confusion. There are some things just as truly fixed in God's providence as tho the specific command were given to us, and any effort to establish the contrary will always result in confusion. See tract entitled "The Identical Seventh Day," No. 114, B. S. L., price by mail, two cents.