3. The pathway is the same today as when Jesus walked in Judea.
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Heb. 13:8.
4. When it is shown that Jesus kept the seventh day holy as our example, many ask, “Why have not scholar and churchmen found out that there is no Bible authority for first-day sacredness?”
The answer is, They have found it so, and have freely declared the fact.
Testimony Of Eminent Men
5. The extracts that follow are from noted clergymen, scholars, and eminent writers, all of whom doubtless kept the Sunday as a matter of church custom. But they nevertheless bear witness that there is no Bible command for it.
Church Of England Writers
Archdeacon Farrar: “The Sabbath is Saturday, the seventh day of the week.” “The Christian church made no formal, but a gradual and almost unconscious transference of the one day to the other.”—“The Voice From Sinai,” pages 163, 167.
Canon Eyton (of Westminster): “There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday.” “The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday.” “Constantine's decree was the first public step in establishing the first day of the week as a day on which there should be secular rest as well as religious worship.... Into the rest of Sunday no divine law enters.”—“The Ten Commandments,” Trubners & Co.
Canon Knox-Little, replying to those who quote the example of Christ against the High-church ritualism, says:—