| Show REGARDING SUNDAY the question tion has baa been raised as to the correctness of the present orthography of the word sunday the claim being beine made by some that it should be bonday ili il I there are good grounds shown tor for this too it is recognized by all people of intelligent religious rell Kious inclining as the lord lords Is dayas in truth all days are but this to is the one set met apart anart evecia specially lly for recognition of his dominion and grace the bible dayi the son of man is lord also of the sabbath it thus appearing as his beri heritage tage his day the sons day which for the sake of euphony and convenience has been abbreviated to sunday then why spell it otherwise than in con ance with its origin particularly when by legitimate orthography the of the word is not disturbed in the least in old english times the word was spelled Sonne day and in germany it is oftener than otherwise found day 11 1 1 it is known that the origin of the spelling which we have adopted to is phoenician and means the day set not apart for the worship of the sun just as monday meant the day devoted to worshiping the moon tuesday was cos s day wednesday bodens Wo dens thursday thors friday krigas Fr igals gas and so on all these names are so many relics of ef heathenism which our civilization has permitted to remain where they took hold of our etymological system and some time or other they may all be disposed of and the christian standard upheld an eastern paper the new york mast malt and Eh express press which was the he first to start the discussion fr for the change makes makei the point that our hebrew fellow citizens will concede that messiah to Is the son of gott god and the son of david and if any day of the week is to be named for him it is every way more appropriate to call it than sunday this can be granted by them without their either affirming or denying that christians are correct in considering jesus jesua to be messiah it is better for them as well as the rest of the world not to use uee the title sunday which is certainly of heathen import for they above all nations never will worship the sun or any created thing also it shows shown that the romanists Romanis ts ought to tte be glad to call the day after jesus for son of god is the title which he most frequently applied to himself after he ascended into heaven and it would help to spiritualize their worship the very thing in respect to which they stand in the greatest need it is understood that radical changes in any line of orthography now when averyt everything hing to is so settled by usage and constant succession is well nigh impracticable if not utterly so this being the case cas and the question of sanctity not entering into the matter as relates to any of the other days of the week it might be as well to let the discussion end for the present with the propriety or otherwise of all christian people and publications spelling it 1 1 instead of longer donday reco guis ing the heathenism lingering around the present method some may say the matter is in too trivial to justify general dl cuss loit or uniform antion action but in a uwe time when the tendencies are an more and more to depart from sacredness in dealing with all subjects we are not willing to so regard it the paper above referred to has hag already adopted the now new method of spelling elling ep the name of the day |
