Show SUNDAY NOT SATURDAY in another part of the NEWS will be found a communication from rev mrs mr willoughby in reply to editorial remarks on the sabbath question a week ago the gentleman gentl emaus aa letter la in published because it to IB only fair to accord a hearing bearing also to the other side bide the thus having been brought up bain swain a few more comments com mento are called for in our previous article on this matter it was stated that the consecration ot of the first day ot of the week sath as the christian sabbath to is prior to any imperial legislation in that line and can be accounted for only on the supposition that the first followers of our lord had authorized the obvious deviation from the mosaic law proofs are do demanded for this proposition in addi tion to the well known testimony of justin martyr in his bis apology to the emperor in which he be positively state tat that the christians in his time universally kept sunday holy the author of the epistle of Burn barnabas abse may be quoted he says saye we keep the eight day with Joyl joyfulness ulness the day also in which jesus rose agala agaba from the dead ignatius says the christians arts are no do longer 11 but living in the observance of the lards day glon on which also our life sprang up again this so called apostolic father distl distinctly Deft contrasts the lords lord in day to the sabbath for he says alter after the observance of the sabbath lot let every friend of christ keep the lords day as a festival the resurrection day the kneen and chief of all the days in view of these and similar testa festl moni monies esit it would seem impossible to deny dady the fact that the early christians ket sunday the lord lords a day as their sabbath Sabba tb but were they not mistaken in anwer to this question we turn to the now new testament according to the evangelists our lord rose from the dead on the first fint day A second appearance of christ to his apostles also occurred on shag hat day adlin J ohn 26 the miracle of the resurrection was always considered the central fact jim ID the christian n religion since according to paul on that binges the whole truth troth of the gospel at firsts first the christians in their holy enthusiasm over the victory over death by their lord met every day for religious exercise acts 11 46 later we find them in addition to keeping beeping the sabbath of the old testament specially observing sunday for their own worship wore bip thus thai the christians christiana in gathered fathered on the first day of the week to break broad bread and to listen to the teachings of paul acts 7 that this was no isolated case in ie clear from 1 cor xvi evl 2 where that day is spoken of as one particularly appropriate for rome kemem m berina the poor poof of the lord and also from the apocalypse i 1 10 where it Is learned that the apostle john even la in exile observed the lord lords a day meditating on things divine and receiving revelations in order to annul all these plain scripture statements far the first days day the Sabbat arians have been forced to contend that the lords lord ve day and the sabbath are identical their argument is a peculiar one they say ay everything was made by the lord the sabbath was made by him consequently it to is the lords day but it used eed hardly be pointed out that by the same premises it emu be proved that mondy and every other day of the week is the lord lords Is day since they were all amade by the creator besides that mode of establishing a foundation for a doctrine ir i to say the least unsatisfactory if we are permitted to build a logical syllogism on the word of god and then pretend that our conclusion to is the divine word there cian can be no end to errors but that Is a exactly what the he Sabbat arians do as it if particular logic were infallible atho the lords baysy day is in the now new testament and the writings writing mi of all the subsequent authors applied to no other day than the day of our sailors Sav loia lon the question of the mosaic sabbath was definitely settled as early as about twenty years after the crucifixion at that time the he subject was considered in the conference at jerusalem acts xv the hebrew element of the church insisted on the necessity for the gen tue tile mem members berol to be circumcised and keep this the law of moses I this matter having reo received elved careful attention the inspired servants of god ao fabun ded that the gentile christians should hould be troubled with no other things than abstinence from sacrifices offered to adolp idol art frt trim in blood from forn fornication I 1 and from most meat of strangled why did not the divine spirit at as this time enjoin on the gon gec tillean alie as the seventh day adventists noldo now do to keep the jewish sabbath Sabba tb the whole question derives importance from the fact that the attempts to establish reestablish re the seventh jay sabbath is in to the be gospel it is an error of the sarrie same class claas as that to which the churches of galatia were subject our lord in dealing with the Sab sabbath batti and other questions of mosaic law always went beyond the let letter terJI of those commandment the mikaio form wa all but an imperfect em am of the eternal principles underlying them specially adapted to the people at that time to under stand principles and to conform to thena Is IB the essential duty of those living in ID too toe gospel dispensation and all that tends to divert the attention from this and retain the believer in a rudimentary stage of spiritual development is at variance with true christianity a truth that is in plainly pointed out in various parts of sacred writ |