It does not trouble us; we can dispose of it very quickly, and to the satisfaction of every one who prefers evidence, either of Scripture or history, to his feelings or prejudices. But if there is any one thing which, more than any other thing, gives trouble to its friends, it is "the venerable day of the sun," the Sunday. A well-known religious paper contains the following:— "In an essay read before the Baptist Ministers' Conference in Philadelphia the other day, the essayist began by declaring that 'there is nothing in the fourth commandment to determine which day in the week should be observed.' 'The seventh day is the Sabbath,' doesn't that tell 'which day in the week should be observed?' So we read. The trouble with this exegesis is that it is born of a desire to find in the fourth commandment as it stands the father of our latter-day Sunday. The truth is, the fourth commandment does prescribe a specific day as the Sabbath, as any Hebrew observing any other day instead would have speedily discovered. As all mere civic and ceremonial statutes fell with the coming of Christ, who showed himself and his disciples to be superior to a specific day, it was relegated to the Christian church to select any one day or not. This the church did not do immediately, but a little later selected the day of Christ's resurrection as the Christian Sabbath, yet did not make it the idle day it was to the Jews. So it is we have Sunday, the Lord's day for our Sabbath, and doubtless will have to the end of time." This goes even beyond the claim of the Catholic Church. It not only makes the church the author of the Sunday institution, but it sets aside the fourth commandment entirely. It also tells an important truth, namely, that the Sunday was not selected "immediately" as a day of observance. "A little later!" Yes, after the "falling away" had come, and "the man of sin" was revealed. 2 Thess. 2:1–8.