THE SAME DAY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 2, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 48

THE SAME DAY.

SOME seem still to conceive that there is a difficulty in identifying the Sabbath day the world around. How can all keep the same day, they ask, since it is night throughout one half, of the world while it is day in the other. The whole difficulty lies in the conception that men in all parts of the world are to keep the same absolute time, whereas all that is required is that they should observe the same relative time. Every part of the globe has its succession of definite days established by the very operations of nature which God ordained in the beginning. Every spot on the globe has its seventh day in the weekly cycle. But the hours which constitute the seventh day here are not the same absolute hours which constitute the seventh day one hundred and eighty degrees of longitude from here. But it is the seventh day there just as definitely as it is here. As the earth revolves upon its axis, the days in one grand and never-ending procession sweep around the globe. Every day in its turn comes to all the earth, and men in all the earth ought to keep the seventh day when it comes to them. The sun was divinely appointed to rule the day. That determines the seventh day to the dwellers in every quarter of the globe. See this subject fully discussed in the little tract published at this Office called “The Definite Seventh Day.”