| Show ft P wrong rong idea that each day of week wee k Is holy it Is aften said that every day of tile la Is observed as the sabbath or set aside as a holy day by some BOIDO religious sect or people such Is not tha case friday is observed by a p portion er t ion of the moslem world saturday by the jews seventh day daf adventists dentists ts seventh Seven tit day baptists baptisti and several other christian sects gunday by the majority ot of christians and tuesday by the sect of Alos moslems lems which prevails in persia there are no religions or sects at the present time so BO far as we have been able to learn which according to our calendar observe monday wednesday and thursday us as the sabbath even ven a large portion of the madans particularly those in III turkey have abandoned friday in fa favor v of tile the christian sunday many years ngo ago some writer made the broad statement tat ement that every day in the week Is set apart by some people as the their ir sabbath nth ile he enumerated the holy days of the peoples as follows sunday Is observed by most christians monday by the or greeks ecks tuesday by the persians we wednesday by the As syrians thursday by the Egypt egyptians lans friday by the edans find and saturday by the jews this Is a curious hodgepodge of fact and fiction the enumeration Is absurd because the egyptian j greeks creeks and As syrians whoever they may be are nearly all christians christian s or edans of one sect or another evidently the writer in order to prove hla his point about the perpetual sabbath included certain ancient religions now defunct at any rate his assertion about every day being the sabbath of some religion Is still frequently repeated by careless writers as representing an interesting fact pathfinder finder magazine |
