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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 4, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 14.

OBSERVING DAYS.

By A. Carter

"Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years." Gal. 4:10.

THE Christian who has become convinced of his duty to observe the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, is quite liable to have this text quoted to him by people who judge him to be guilty of the fault of the Galatians. Let us see if this scripture does not apply even more forcibly to those Christians who observe Sunday.

In the Roman Catholic Church the following events in the life of our Saviour are commemorated: The time of His incarnation, His birth, the visit of the wise men, the circumcision of Jesus, the forty days' fast, the institution of the sacrament, Christ's entry into Jerusalem, His agony in the garden, His death, resurrection, and ascension.

In honor of the virgin Mary, the following six events are commemorated: Her conception, birth, purification, presentation at the temple, her visitation, and her death.

The angels also are remembered in Michaelmas Day, the apparition of St. Michael, and the Day of our Guardian Angels.

Reckoning Sundays and the feast days of the various saints, and about one hundred fifty fast days in the year, the Roman Church observes 217 days in the year.

Not one of these days is of divine appointment.

And some Protestants observe in some way over two hundred days annually, all of which are also of human origin, 178 being the same as those observed by Rome.

The Jews observe forty-three days, not reckoning the Sabbath.

Seventh-day Adventists observe only the weekly Sabbath, fifty-two days in the year, and these are of direct, divine appointment—from the beginning of earth's history. The foregoing facts show that they are hardly to be deemed the class to whom the apostle's reproof applies. A. CARTER.