1. Η. P. Paris, Ontario. Should you not receive the tracts posted, you will find your question answered in a tract, “What was the sabbath?” &c, by “C. S.” (G. Morrish, London.)
The sabbath was the last day of Judaism. Under law, man never could enter into rest. Jesus remained in the grave that day. The next day was the first of Christianity, the clay on which the Lord arose from among the dead. In the New Testament it is called the first day of the week, or Lord’s day. But it is never spoken of as the sabbath.
In the Acts, the sabbath means the Jewish sabbath—our Saturday. The one day was never changed into the other in. scripture. You ask “Why was it changed, and what effected the change?” It was no doubt the gradual leavening of the assemblies by Judaism, the sad return to Judaism. The very use of the term sabbath is a sure sign of Judaism. You will see, however, the contrast between the sabbath and the Lord’s day, in the tract referred to above. With the return of the sabbath, and Judaism, the rest and joy in God, brought to us by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus from among “the dead, has been almost lost. This subject you will find dwelt upon in the present articles in this magazine, “Paul’s Defense of the Gospel.”
Lying down at night too weary to pray—I should be sorry to know I was not with God.
G. J.