SUNDAY LEISURE
Sir-Your correspondent A.G.W. is very emphatic that the question of Sunday observance is one solely between the Creator and the created; and quotes in support the Third Commandment — by which, to judge by the remainder of his letter, he actually means the Fourth. If he will take the trouble really to read this ordinance, he will find that it distinctly nominates the seventh (Sabbath) day-or Saturday-in each week, as a day of rest; and gives as reason, the fact that God Himself rested on the seventh day from His labours of creation. Conformity with this custom has éndured to the present day without interruption in the Jewish community. It is, however, quite impossible to accord the same authority to Sunday. This is a day (the first instead of the seventh of the week) arbitrarily selected by human beings as a substitute for the Sabbath, and designed to commemorate an entirely different event (the resurrection of Christ from the dead). It is quite open to anyone to hold that Sunday is a better day than the Sabbath, or that it is not as good, or even that (on decount of its human origin) it has no validity:’ but the one thing which elearly cannot honestly be advanced on its behalf, is that it is the same day. The Sabbath or Saturday may fairly be claimed, by those who believe in the Bible, as a God-ordained day. Sunday is purely man-ordained, and to invoke the Fourth Commandment in its support is absolutely disingenuous: as, also, has been the use throughout the centuries by the Christian Clergy of all denominations of the word "Sabbath" as a synonym for "Sunday" with the deliberate object of habituating their flocks to this deception: a trick utterly unworthy of those who profess themselves to be our spiritual teachers and moral
tutors:
H BRADNEY
WILLTAMS
(Tauranga).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 312, 15 June 1945, Page 5
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310SUNDAY LEISURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 312, 15 June 1945, Page 5
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