THE SABBATH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20104, 24 March 1928, Page 6

THE SABBATH

Sir, Referring to the questions published in your issue of Friday, March 16, I would like to ask whether J. P. McLean has forgotten them, or is unable to give the information required! The statements that the Pope changed the Sabbath to the Sunday, were so positive, that I thought he or she would be able to inform me of the time and the placq and the Pope by whom the change was made, since the histories which I have consulted do not supply that information. Likewise, Adventist publications are so positive of their claims, that I thought it would have been a simple matter to give the information desired, on the other points or is the feeling, that the Sabbath arguments are based on mere assumption that one gets when reading them, well founded? SEEKER. Marton, March 23.

Sir, —In your issue of March 16, T noticed a letter by one,, “Seeker,,” in which he asks for an enlightenment on the questions he mentions therein. Being interested in the Sabbath question and also having a desire to get to the bottom of the whole matter and ascertain the truth, I thought 1 would take the liberty of answering “Seeker’s” first question:— The Sunday Sabbath now’ used by all Christian denominations throughout tho world w’as founded by Constantine the Great in the year 321, and made universal throughout the Roman Empire. Tn tho year 364 A.D., tho Council of Laodicea prohibited the keeping of the true Sabbath in any part of the Roman Empire. Father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptorist College, Kansas City, in the American Sentinel of June 1, 1893 says:—“The Bible tells us, ‘Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.’ The Catholic Church says, ‘No! By my Divine power I, abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep holy the first day of tho week.’ And, 10, the entire civilised world bows down in reverent obedience, to the command of the Holy Catholic Church.” Again Father T. Enright, in the Weekly Call of February 22, 1884 says:—“The Bible commands you to keep the Sabbath day. Sunday is not the Sabbath day, and no man dare assert that it is, for the Bible says as plainly as words can make it that the seventh day is the Sabbah, ie., Saturday; for we know Sunday to be the first day of the week. 1 will give 1000 dollars to any man who will prove by the Bible alone that Sunday is the day we are bound to keep. The observance of Sunday is solely a law of the Catholic Church. The church changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and all the world bow’s down and worships in silent obedience to the mandates of the Catholic Church.” The Rev. Issac Williams,, 8.D., (Church of England) in “Sermons on the Catechism,” Volume 1 page 334, says:—“And w r here are we told in the Scriptures that w r e are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh day, but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day. The reason w r e keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh day. is for the same reason that we observe many other things—not because the Bible, but the church, has enjoined it.” TRUTH SEEKER. Wanganui, March 21. [This correspondence is now closed.— Editor “Chronicle.”]