The prevailing idea is that Christ or his apostles changed the day. But we find the Bible silent on this point. We find that Christ himself kept the seventh-day Sabbath. Luke 23: 56. Paul preached to Jews and Gentiles on the Sabbath day. Acts. 17: 4; 13: 42. We searched in vain for one passage in the Scriptures which sanctions Sunday or the first day of the week observance.

The greatest obstacle in the way of the Sunday institution is the law of ten commandments. Sunday cannot be supported by that law, the fourth precept of which says the seventh day is the Sabbath, and to abolish the law would be to abolish the {p. 116} very foundation of the government of God. The leading Protestant denominations agree that the ten commandments are now in force.

The Methodist Discipline, article 6, says, 'No Christian whatever is free from obedience of the commandments which are called moral.'

The Baptist Manual, article 12, says, 'We believe that the moral law of God is the eternal and unchangeable rule of his moral government.'

The Presbyterian confession of Faith, article 5, says, 'The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof...Neither does Christ in the Gospel in any way dissolve, but much strengthens, this obligation.'

Dwight's Theology, a Presbyterian work, Vol. 4, page 120 says, 'The law of God is and must be unchangeable and eternal.

Thus we find the great denominations of Protestantism agree that God's law of ten commandments is unchangeable, and yet by their practice of keeping Sunday, they virtually admit it has been changed. For surely a change of the Sabbath would involve a change of the law of the Sabbath.