is by calculating from
the centre of the earth, and also bringing the sun there, if his
declination be north or south. Therefore by the same rule (and no other,)
we regulate the weeks, and must of necessity begin the scripture day at 6
P. M., or else being in one place, we never have two Sabbaths begin at one
time. Says the objector we might begin at sunset. If so, no two persons
could keep the same time except they were directly north or south of each
other. But can they keep the same time all over the globe if they begin at
six P. M.? Yes, certainly. For example.--Jerusalem being about 90 deg., or
fifty-four hundred geographical miles east of us, makes a difference of
six hours; it is six P. M. with them when it is noon day with us; their
Sabbath closes then, six hours before it does with us--but it is at six
o'clock P. M. there. And so when the Sabbath closes here, although it is
precisely the same hour of the day, viz. six P. M., and in like manner all
round the globe. Hence the necessity of beginning the twenty-four hour day
at sun set from the centre of the earth. We are told that we cannot keep
time right, because men, who circumnavigate the globe, make a difference
of twenty-four hours in time. Well, suppose men could girt the globe with
their magnetic wires, so that half of the inhabitants of the United States
could pass clear round ten times a day, what odds would that make to the
motion of the globe. This looks like another snare of Satan. The change
from old to new style, they say, if eleven days are taken from the
calender then that certainly has changed the seventh day, but some how or
other it does not affect the first day, Sunday. How is it done? say some
two hundred members in the British Parliament on Thursday, at six P. M.
the first day of Jan. pass a unanimous vote by uplifted hands that we drop
eleven days from the calendar. Now all the change here, is, it is now a
few minutes past six P. M. on the same Thursday night called the eleventh
of Jan. God never stopped the earth's motion one moment to listen to them.
This certainly did not effect the day of the week, any more than the sun's
standing still a whole day, that being true also, at 4 P. M., did not
prevent them from counting Friday when it came. If he stood still for
twenty-four hours, then no time would be lost to us, for Friday could not
come until six, P. M., two hours after he started again. If it had been
less than twenty-four hours then must