SUNDAY OR SABBATH, WHICH?
By Editor
THE following resolution was adopted by the late Presbyterian Assembly at York, Pa.:— "Resolved, That in the rapid increase of Sunday travel, Sunday excursions, Sunday newspapers, Sunday post-office business, Sunday visiting, etc., we see one of the most alarming indications of popular degeneracy, justly provoking the displeasure of Him who gave to ancient Israel his Sabbaths to be 'a sign between Him and them,' and who, because they 'rebelled against him and polluted his Sabbaths,' said 'I will pour out my fury upon them to consume them.'" Just what connection there is between Sunday travel, Sunday newspapers, post-office business, etc., and God's threats against the polluters of his Sabbaths which he gave to ancient Israel, we cannot determine. The passage above quoted from Eze. 20:11-13, refers to the seventh day, which, as all agree, was the Sabbath that God gave to "ancient Israel." It certainly shows a great scarcity of law against Sunday work when learned men are compelled to quote a Sabbath law to condemn it. We thus have the strange spectacle of a law that enforces two things directly opposed to each other. This is an anomaly worth investigating. "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?"