Is Sunday being observed upon the wrong day of the week in New Zealand ? According to Mr. David Nield, who lectured upon the subject at the Orange Hall, on Wednesday night, it is. His teaching is that the day now called Sunday is tho Saturday, the seventh day Sabbath. Mr. Nield contends that if the day called Sunday is really Saturday, then the day called Monday must be ths real Sunday in New Zealand. The Sabbath, ho argues, was made in Eden, and as the day was appointed to be ruled by the sun in its course, apparently westward round the world, that same seventh day comes .to London 2g hours later, to New York 7£ hours later, and to Auckland 15 hours after Eden, and it is positively the misnamed Sunday. "Those people who keep Sunday, as Sunday," says Mr. Neild, " are in great error, while those persons who .observe the day called Sunday as the seventh day Sabbath, are keeping in accord with the Creator's commandment;,"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14948, 22 March 1912, Page 9
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