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SUNDAY NO SABBATH

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 19.

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SUNDAY NO SABBATH

By Editor

From the Sabbath Recorder.

"SUNDAY NO SABBATH."

UNDER the above heading the Boston Investigator, an infidel paper, publishes the following paragraphs. We copy them partly because of the truth they contain, and partly because we hope in that way to enable some of those who never look into an infidel paper to see themselves as others see them. How much easier it would be to promote a reform in the manner of keeping the Sabbath, if those who advocate such a reform would themselves practice what they preach—if they would in other words, keep the Sabbath according to the commandment upon which they profess to base their movements. Here is the extract:
"Professed theologians ought to possess some information upon this subject. They should not subject themselves to a laugh of such scornful derision as must curl the lip of every man of information, on beholding erudite divines denominating Sunday the Sabbath day, and declaring, moreover, that it is the Sabbath ordered to be kept holy by the fourth commandment. This is worse than ignorance; it is deliberate misrepresentation; it is a willful perversion of truth and of the Bible. The Sunday is not the Sabbath-day of the fourth commandment. There is no authority whatever in the Bible for giving to the Sunday the denomination of the Sabbath. It is a theological delusion to use such language, and they who use it are guilty of misleading and deceiving the people.
"Both in the Old Testament and in the New, it is the seventh day, the Saturday, that is called the Sabbath. The practice and tradition of the Jews, preserved and acted upon to the present day, inform us that the Saturday is the Sabbath. In opposition, then, to the Bible, in opposition to the information of all history, in opposition to the practice to this hour of that very people to whom the fourth commandment was expressly given, and who, to the present time deviate not in the slightest degree from the practice and custom of their ancestors in the day which they observe as the Sabbath, how dare clergymen come forward and with shameless audacity tell us that the Sunday is the Sabbath-day of the fourth commandment? Sunday is not the Sabbath, nor has the law of the Sabbath any reference to Sunday; and if that law be in force now, the strictest and most straight-laced observer of the Sunday is a violator of the Sabbath-day."