When we tell the people that the seventh day of the week, commonly called Saturday, is and always has been the Sabbath, and that there is no Divine authority whatever for the observance of Sunday, they often skeptically ask, “If this is so, why have not the ministers and learned men found it out?”
The truth is, that they have found it out, and have told it, and we have published much of their testimony in PRESENT TRUTH. This week we have some more of the same sort to present. The late Dr. R. W. Dale, of Birmingham, was a Congregationalist, but as a preacher, a scholar, and a theologian, he was and is held in very high repute by all Nonconformists, and by Churchmen as well. In 1871 a book of his entitled “The Ten Commandments,” was published by Hodder & Stoughton, of whom it is said that their imprint is a certificate of orthodoxy, and from that we extract the following: —
It is quite clear that however rigidly or devoutly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath.
The Sabbath was founded on a specific Divine command. We can plead no such command for the obligation to observe Sunday. —Page 106.
Again, on page 107 we read: —
The penalty for breaking the Sabbath was death. There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday.
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