Which Day Is The Christian Sabbath?

“Sunday keepers assert that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath, or the Sabbath of the New Testament. Seventh-day Adventists maintain that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the New Testament. Go into a church on the first day of the week, and you hear the minister call it the Sabbath. Go among the seventh day people on Saturday, and they call that the Sabbath. Now, who is right? We appeal to the New Testament.DOF 124.4

“‘In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene,’ etc. Matthew 28:1. Notice particularly; here are two days. One is the Sabbath day. ‘In the end of the Sabbath.’ Very well, there is one day, then, that is the Sabbath. Now which day is this? Sunday keepers say it is the first day of the week, and we say that it is the seventh day. Read further. ‘In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week.’ Reader, which is the Sabbath day? It cannot be the first day, because the one which is called the Sabbath is the day before the first day. The Sabbath is ended before the first day comes. Remember this is not the testimony of the Old Testament. It is from the Gospel that we are reading, the Christian Scriptures, the New Testament; and hence, if you please, the Sabbath here mentioned is the ‘Christian Sabbath.’DOF 125.1

“Here is another text: ‘When the Sabbath was past.... very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher.’ Mark 16:1, 2. Notice carefully; here are two days spoken of again. One of them is the Sabbath. Which day is it? Is it the first day? Surely not, because,the Sabbath is past before the first day comes. ‘When the ‘Sabbath was past.... the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher.’ Remember this is New Testament, not Old-gospel, not law,—Christian, not Jewish, testimony. To this we appeal. Which day is the Christian Sabbath? This was written a long time after the resurrection, written by a Christian, and for Christians. Reader, which is the Christian Sabbath?DOF 125.2

“Once more: ‘And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandment.’ Luke 23:56. Thus did the holy women who had followed Christ all His life and were acquainted with all His teaching. This was written thirty years after the resurrection. It is in the Christian Scriptures. What does it say? They kept the Sabbath day. What Sabbath day? ‘The Sabbath day according to the commandment.’ Then it is the right Sabbath, the one the law requires. Now what day was this? The next verse will settle it. ‘Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher.’ Notice, the next day after the day they had kept, was the first day of the week. Thus, reader, the first day of the week cannot be the Sabbath day according to the commandment, because the Christians had kept the Sabbath day, the day before the first day of the week. Do not think we are reading from the Old Testament. No, indeed; this is New Testament Scripture.DOF 125.3