ON THE SEVENTH DAY
_ Sir,-Your. editorial "On the Seventh Day" (July 20) is valuable in provoking us to consider the keeping of Sunday in a Christian country. There is always la tendency to confuse the keeping of _Sunday with the keeping of the Jewish Old Testament Sabbath. Indeed, the Puritans in the past and present would and will call Sunday "The Sabbath." Christian children learn the Fourth Commandment about the Sabbath, but only so that they can Keep the spirit .of the Commandment by observing the |New Testament Sunday. Our Sunday is -a joyous day of worship, rest and recreation in that order. It is the weekly festival of our Lord’s Resurrection. _ Alas, even you, Sir, are among those who add to the confusion, for you head your article "On the Seventh Day," and then go on to consider the keeping of Sunday. Do I need to remind you that Sunday is the first day of the week?
R. P.
TAYLOR
‘Caversham).
(Alas, yes, we do need to be reminded. We cannot get rid of the notion that the last day /is more appropriately a day of rest than the _ first.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 18
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191ON THE SEVENTH DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 889, 17 August 1956, Page 18
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