p. 198 | NAMES OF THE DAYS by J. B. Frisbie

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Mar 20, 1855

NAMES OF THE DAYS.

By J. B. Frisbie

1. Sunday from the sun. 2. Monday from the moon. 3. Tuesday from Tuisco the Roman Mars. 4. Wednesday from Woden the god of battles. 5. Thursday from Furanus or Danish Thor, the god of winds and weather. 6. Friday from Friga, or Venus, who was sometimes worshiped as the goddess of peace and plenty. 7. Saturday from Seator, the God of freedom, or from the planet Saturn.

Now let us sum up the whole matter on this Sunday subject, and see how it looks.

1. The Roman Catholics claim that they changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week—the heathen Sunday. With this agrees the prophecy of Daniel vii, 25. There cannot be a doubt but this is the plain truth in the matter, for the so-called Christian Sabbath.

2. The Protestant Episcopal Church says, "We meet with no Scriptural direction for the change."

3. The Westminster Assembly's Catechism says, "God appointed the first day of the week to continue to the end of the world, which is the Christian Sabbath."

4. The Free-Will Baptist Faith says, "It is inferred that this change was made by Christ or the apostles."

5. The Close-Communion Baptists talk all ways to suit the times: there appears to be no real settled principles in their denomination. Undoubtedly this is a ruse to avoid their Seventh-day Baptist brethren.

6. The Methodist Articles teach that the moral law is binding on Christians; and the moral law teaches that "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord our God." And inasmuch as they cannot read Sunday keeping in the Bible, nor prove it thereby, to be consistent they ought to keep God's holy Sabbath, but do not. Their Catechism (No. 2) does teach the fourth commandment without note or comment.

7. And last of all, the Sunday School Union Bible Dictionary, published by Protestants, tells us that it "was a name given by the heathens to the first day of the week, because it was the day on which they worshiped the sun, and this name has been continued to our times." With this agree the Catholics, that "the old Roman (heathen) denomination held this day sacred to the sun."

Question: Who did change the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week? for it is agreed on all sides that the day has been changed; still this is not the subject of dispute with the learned of our day; but how came the day changed and who effected it? This is the disputed point that we want the honest to answer before God, to whom we must all give account. We see what a Babylon of confusion there is on this subject among Protestant writers. Their views are contradictory and confused, while their reasons are various and childish. Is not this sufficient to show to a positive certainty that there is no divine authority for the change, and that the original Sabbath should be kept.

J. B. FRISBIE.