2531.-Flesh Meats by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 24.

2531.—Flesh Meats.

By Editor

Is there more wrong done to eat flesh meats on Good Friday than on any other day, and why? Is Good Friday the anniversary of Christ's crucifixion, and Easter Sunday of the day He arose from the dead?

The Scriptures know nothing about the term "Good Friday" or "Easter Sunday." It knows nothing about abstinence from flesh foods on Good Friday more than on any other day. All these things have been built up by the superstition of men who have thought to do works which would win favor of God. All such things are superfluous, and the Lord will ask as He asked His people of old, "Who hath required this at your hand?" The fact that the day of the year does not correspond with the day of the week is sufficient evidence to show that no day of the week is an anniversary of a yearly event. Consequently there is no such thing as anniversaries of Christ's death, or resurrection, being kept on any day of the week. Men may fast from certain things on certain days, but the Lord does not require it. To us it seems to be a good thing to abstain from flesh meats on Good Friday, and all other Fridays, and all other days of the week. We have followed that practise for many years, and know that we have been benefited by it. The true memorial of Christ's crucifixion is the Lord's Supper, and the true memorial of Christ's resurrection is a life which begins at baptism, and which speaks forth to all the power and righteousness manifest in the resurrection of Christ.