ON THE SEVENTH DAY
Sir,-Your two correspondents, D. A. Hogg and J. Malton Murray, have entered into print on your editorial "On the Seventh Day" (July 20). May I be permitted to draw attention to facts both these gentlemen have overlooked? Mr. Hogg claims that the Lord’s Day Society measures Sunday activities "against the Commandment to keep Sunday." Mr. Murray, on the other hand, says that Sunday was adopted by the Gentile Church to get away from the Jewish Sabbath. Now the Ten Commandments are not Jewish, but were spoken by God Himself (Exodus 20/1), and the Sabbath of those same Commandments is called "The Sabbath of the Lord thy God" (Exodus 20/10), a statement which hardly fits a claim of being Jewish. Mr. Hogg continues, "The Society believes that no motive short of obedience to a divine command is adequate to ensure the weekly pause for rest and wor-
ship. . ." I agree, but the term Lord’s Day is used only once (Rey. 1/10), and nowhere in the Bible is it used for the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday. Jesus said He was "Lord even of the Sabbath Day" (Matt. 12/8). The Commandment says the seventh day, which is Saturday; therefore, the obedience to the divine command is the observance of Saturday and not Sunday. But here is a knotty problem: how far should Sunday keepers go in enforcing others to believe as they do? According to the golden rule, they should do unto others as they would desire others to do unto them.
GORDON V.
BRETT
(Nelson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 5
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261ON THE SEVENTH DAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 5
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