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BREAKING THE SABBATH.

(Published by Arrangement.) To tho Editor. Sir,—l notice a letter written by "Rest," complaining about Sunday breaking and stating thai Sunday labor wanted putting down with a Arm hand. "Rest," \yhile trying to bave a Christian spirit, has a persecuting one also. Certainly Sabbath means rest, but Sunday doesn't. "Rest" speaks of one day in seven, but God sajs: "Remember the-Sabbath day to keep it holy," etc.; but that is the day most people forget; it Lb Saturday, the seventh day of the week, and has been since the creation. When God ended His work he rested on the seventh day. He blessed it And sanctified it to be set apaTt for His worship in commemoration of creation. No other day can commemorate creation. The Sabbath was made and blessed hundreds of years before there was a. Jew. There are a good unany days ordered to be observed by churches, but in tho whole Bible God only asks us to keep one day—the Sabbath day, Saturday. Christ said He was Lord of \b s Sabbath, so the Sabbath is the Lord's da> He also said the Sabbath way made for man—not Jew only. How did the change from Sabbath to Sunday come? By a heathen king called Cunstantine the Great, a pagan sun-worshipper who joined the Roman Catholic Church, but would not part with his day of worshipping the sun. He made a law that the people of the towns were not to do any work on tho venerable day of the Sun, but he a .'lowed country folk to work, as keeping both the Sabbath and Sunday, meant hindrance in their crops, etc His law was made 321 A.D. When the Catholic Church accepted Constantino tho king Jnto their church he kept his day. In the course of time It was kept as a holy day. Archdeacon farrier, in his book: "The Voice from Sinai," page ll»i says: "The Christian Church (made a gradual and almost unconscious transference of the one day to the other." Cardinal Gibbons, a Roman Catholic bishop, in his "Faith of Our Fathers," 1892 edition, page ill, saya: You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not and a single line authorising the. salification of Sunday The scriptures enforce the religious observance of baturday, a day which we never sanctifv" ?ortn° lic Press < s y Australia), August ;ni„M 9 Yu ? Und " s ' 15 ft Catholic 111. stitutlon, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles Nowhere i„ scripture Is titers a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly puolls worship from the laat day of the week to the first, which is Sunday." Dozens of Protestant! writers acknowledge the same thing, but space wont permit me to give them. In Dr. W. D kitten's (Presbyterian) "The Ancient Church." the preface jays: "In the interval between the days of the Apostles, and the conversion of Constantino, the Christian commonwealth changed its aspect. . . Rites and ceremonies, of which neither Paul nor Peter ever heard of. crept silently Into U3e, and afterwards claimed the rank of divine institutions " The aamo is true of Sunday; every Protestant who keeps Sunday is honoring a command of the Soman Catholic church. Protestants are ready to enforce the Sunday law. They should join the Roman Catholic Church and keep nil tho days she orders to be kept or lteop quiet and keep the Bible Sabbath I have been brought up in the Raman Catholic Church] and I think they follow their religion better than Protestants follow the Bible they profess to believe in Now, I profess no name of tension, only the Bible, and that I do believe ln. Nearly all religions are falling away from the Bible truths or, properly speaking, God's word We should speak a word In season, but Interfere with no one's belief. Read third and fourth chapters of Hebrews—l am, etc., MARGARET BOYD. Hulnga, Toko.

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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1919, Page 2

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BREAKING THE SABBATH. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1919, Page 2

BREAKING THE SABBATH. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1919, Page 2

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