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That Lost Day

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 15.

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That Lost Day

By Editor

THAT LOST DAY. To those who seem to be thrown into a state of perplexing bewilderment on the subject of the Sabbath, on the supposition that a day was lost in the time of Joshua, we recommend the consideration of a passage in the Apocrypha. In Ecclesiasticus xlvi, 4, the writer speaking of Joshua, says, "Did not the sun go back by his means? and was not one day as long as two?" There it is: there was no day lost, but one day was as long as two. That week in which the sun lasted not to go down, and the moon stood still, had seven days in it, just as any other; only it was twenty-four hours longer than usual. And the seventh day of that week was the Sabbath, just as the seventh day of every week before it had been, and as has been the seventh day of every week since. This shows us that the seventh day in the order of its arrival, and not absolute time, is set apart and blessed as a day of rest; and on this principle the difference of time east and west, and the differing length of days north and south, are easily reconcilable with the Sabbath law, and the Sabbath institution.