Show THE SABBATH DAY A correspondent from san pedro cochise county arizona to in a communication muni cation to the NEWS argues for the observance of saturday an ai sabbath instead ot at sunday he says bay saturday to ia the day not e apart by the be mosaic law a and 1 d that sunday bunday to la set et apart alpart by the B R man church theve these are two grounds generally set forth by the seventh day advocates advocate but both are wrong it to ie not historically true that the roman church is ia responsible for the sunday observance long ajon before the church had bad become the roman church the christians observed sunday as aa their heir only day of rest reat the very fact that emperor constantine issued decrees concerning tola this matter pro von wit that it was a general ODeral ff observance obier vance among the christiana chriatian Chri atlan whose favor be sought to gain by legalizing their peculiar customs and only those who close their minds to conviction can fall t see eee that the fineday first day of the week was waa met et apart as aa the lorda day to in the very first christian church while the apostles were living and the light of revelation ebone abone among them why else did JORUM jesus appear repeatedly on that day after his hi resurrection why does doea paul rotor refer to it as aa a commod custom for the christians to come to aether on that day and why was waa the apostle john 10 lo in the spirit ly on the lord lords s day rod and not on the sabbath every reference to this subject in the new testament implies that the resurrect Re tion day was recognized as ag the chriatian sabbath by the first farat followers follower of jesus with regard to the old testament ament sabbath it has haa recently been proven that this was waa not a fixed day in the week but a movable holiday which to in the course of seven eevea years yeara fell ell on each jay in the week in turn the reason for this will appear on a careful perusal of lev 21 22 when it to la remembered that abat zhe he sacred year commenced according to the phases of the and now new years yeara day consequently came on different days daya some tins in march and sometimes in april thle this fact alone overthrows any argument built on the me expression the seventh day for the seventh day would not always b be sm bat u relay it must mirt not be forgotten that all divine laws jaw pertaining to the sabbath are partly moral and partly positive in ia their nature the obligation to pot act apart a day for the wr iship of be almighty and for or spiritual improve went meat and root reat in ii bind binding I 1 n g on all men but the he question of which day must murt be b decided by positive law and we have bar soon been that the me first christians an with divine consent oon con secreted eo rated the first ant day of the week a practice that has hai been by be prophets prophete Prop heti and church of this lat lain dispensation |