SABBATH AND SUNDAY

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 18, 1879

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 25

SABBATH AND SUNDAY.

THE LUTHERAN VIEW.

A FRIEND has sent us the Baltimore American of Nov. 17, 1879, in which we find an abstract of a sermon on the Sunday question, by H. Hansen, pastor of the German Lutheran church, corner of Fremont and Saratoga sts., in that city.

It appears by this that from the Lutheran point of view, the external part of the fourth commandment, the day, was ceremonial, and has been abolished; that there is no law for Sunday in all the New Testament; that Sunday is not a divine institution; that all that the early disciples or apostles did in regard to it was wholly voluntary, without precept or example from Christ; and that its observance now rests wholly upon the authority of the church. Not much aid or comfort in this for the mourners who are crying, Make out Sunday to be a divine institution, or we die.