When Does the Week Begin?
By J. Clarke
Those who keep the first day of the week often use the argument, that we do not know but that Monday is the first day of the week, and that Sunday may as well be called the seventh day as the first. Puerile and silly as this argument appears, it is nevertheless used, often by those who know better; and the young and the uninformed do not know that this point is so indisputably settled that no effort of man can overturn it. In our State laws of Ohio, under the head, "Sabbath Laws," the term, "First Day of the Week, commonly called Sunday," is used by the enactors of our laws. Thus they fly from the term Sabbath, when the letter of the law is concerned; for well they know that the word "Sabbath" applied to the first day of the week, would invalidate the law. Therefore for effect they use the term Sabbath, only in the index and margin! O deception! Formerly the days of the week were numbered in the almanacs of the day: Sunday, 1st day, Monday, 2d, &c.; and no one would have thought of disputing this point then.