THE SUNDAY QUESTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9264, 18 January 1889, Page 3

THE SUNDAY QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOK. Sir, —I do not blame the writer of the letter signed "C.S.,"in your issue of the 16th instant, for rushing into print in the blind and reckless manner he has upon a subject he displays almost profound ignorance of, so much as I do for the way he perverts the truth. I would remind him of the fact that in my letter of the 25th December, to which he refers, headed, " Who Changed the Sabbath," instead of, as he says, eagerly inquiring who did the work, I showed pretty clearly that the Roman Catholics not only have made the change, but that they have the Protestants on a string, my friend "C. S." included. Yet, he says, "I ask the said Jew, can he prove that the Sabbath has been changed ?" If this is not absurd, it certainly corroborates my statement touching his ignorance of the matter. I now ask him, why does he not try to prove something to the contrary ? I maintain the change has been made, and if he believes this to be untrue, let him, like a sensible man, honestly endeavour to prove eomething tangible in support ol his views ; or, if ha thinks Saturday is nob the Sabbath day, why does he nob furnish us with some authenticated proof in support of his opinions? Why, I ask, does he nob specify the Sunday out to us as being the seventh day ? He must know that the fact of him and a few of his friends calling Sunday the seventh day is insufficient. I would ask him also to point out the alleged tradition which has caused us to have missed the run of the Sabbath, unci caused us (the Jews) to observe Saturday instead, if it bo ais absurd act, and not commanded in the. Bible. " C.S." says, " We"—l should like to know who he means by this word we— " Wo count the days of the week so as to call Saturday the sixth day," and Sunday must, he would have us believe, consequently be the seventh. This is another piece of absurd presumption. Will he be so good as to name the denomination, or others than himsolf, to which he refers when using the word " we" in this instance ; and will he kindly refer me to something tangible and authentic upon which he buses his or their authority for numbering the days of the week in this novel way 2 Has my friend no dictionary? I am informed by the one I have that Sunday is the first day of the week, and unless "C.5.," on reading this, has something more sensible to say, I fear that it will be truthfully said that he is himself in by far a greater deplorable and pitiable state than the Jewish nation. "C.S." has referred me to Ilosea ii. 11, but tho dear man is as far ab sea with regard to the meaning of thab chapter and verse as he ie in reference to his idea of Sunday being the seventh day of the week. After he gets the wool out o£ his eyes on this point, 1 would, in my turr aak him to read Ecclesiastes xii. 13, when the wise man says, " Let us hear the coi elusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."—lam, etc., A Jew.