through a revision of the present
calendar. The following table shows
how the proposed new calendar scheme
would disrupt the weekly cycle once
each year if it becomes effective in 1933
as proposed:
Last WEEK OF DECEMBER, 10933
Blank
T. W. T. F. S. Day
24 25 26 27 28 29
S. M.
22 23
FIrsT WEEK OF JANUARY, 1934
S. M. T. W. T. F. 8S.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
The above table shows how the extra
day at the end of each year is dropped
out of the reckoning of the weekly
cycle. Tt illustrates the last week of
December, 1933, and the first week of
January, 1934, with the extra 365th day
of the year left out of the weekly cycle,
thus altering the days of the week each
year. The last week in December, 1933,
ends on Saturday, December 28. The
next day, the twenty-ninth, is the extra
“year day,” which is called a blank day
in the new calendar plan, and which
naturally would be Sunday if the regular
order of the days of the week was
followed. But it is not reckoned in the
days of the week, and so Sunday, under
the new plan is carried forward to the
first day of the month of January, 1934.
In this way the weekly cycle is broken
regularly each year under the Cotsworth
scheme, which is recommended for
universal adoption.
During leap years the weekly cycle is
broken twice, because two blank days
are dropped out of the weekly cycle.
It is proposed in the new plan to insert
the new month of Sol between June and
July, and to drop the extra leap-year
blank day out of the reckoning between
the last week in June and the first week of
Sol. The following table shows how the
weekly cycle is altered during 1936,
the first leap year, as the extra leap-year
day is dropped between June and Sol
in the middle of the year:
I,asT WEEK OF JUNE, 1936
Blank
T. W. T. EF. S. Day
24 25 26 27 28 29
S. M.
22 23
First WEEK OF SOL, 1936
S. M. T. W. T. F. S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Thus the weekly cycle is broken twice
during each leap year, once in the middle
and again at the end of the year; and
thus the Sabbatarian who conscientiously
continues to observe the original Sabbath
on the true day of the Bible week is
compelled to observe his Sabbath on a
certain secular week day each leap year
for six months, and for seven months on
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a different secular week day, according
to the new calendar scheme. The same
would be true concerning the Sunday
observer, if he desired to observe Sunday
in honor of the true resurrection day on
the original first day of the week.
The new scheme of altering the weekly
cycle each year, and making the Sabbath
as well as Sunday fall on different days
of the week, is fraught with much evil
foreboding to the moral and spiritual
realm. When the governments of earth
remove the moral restraints and safe-
guards of religion by legal processes, and
trample with impunity upon divine
authority and sacred institutions for
the sake of expediency and mercenary
gain in big business, it does not take a
prophet to foresee the harmful effect
such lowering of moral and religious
Some leading articles in the
June Watchman
We have been told by a critical sccial
scientist that we need a new conception
of God. What is Our Conception of
God? By Allen Walker.
The final settling of the ‘‘Roman
Question’ raises An American Ques-
tion. By William G. Wirth.
The Most
Development of Today.
Lewis Shuler.
Deathbed Repentance. Does God
accept it? By Robert L. Boothby.
The Secret of a Healthy Body. By
Daniel H. Kress, M. D.
Flies and Marriage. By Martha E.
Warner.
Visiting the Haunts of Queer
People in Africa. By William H.
Branson.
Momentous Political
By John
standards is going to have upon the
religious life of the people.
All the calendar revisers of the past
took scrupulous care not to disturb the
Creator’s own arrangement of the weekly
cycle. They have recognized God’s
authority to set aside one particular
day of the week as holy time and that
day has never been lost sight of by
God’s faithful children. The lawmakers
as well as the astronomers in all past
ages who brought about the calendar
changes in the monthly and yearly
cycles, made an attempt to find God’s
true length of His invariable and in-
fallible solar year so as to be in harmony
with His own correct measure of yearly
cycles, but never before in all history
have men had the temerity to change
the divine arrangement of the weekly
cycle and make it untrue. That bold
step has been reserved for our day, and
now religion and conscientious convic-
tions are to be crucified upon a cross of
gold in order to facilitate big business
and cater to the convenience rather than
to the religious convictions of the world.
Men should hesitate to rush in where
angels fear to tread. This is another bold
attempt “to change the times and laws
. of the Most High.”
Reaping the Whirlwind of
Crime
(Continued from page 4)
and women and children on a scale
unequaled in human history; in place
of inspirational and uplifting music,
we gave them jazz; and instead of
the dignity of honest labor with the ax
and the hoe, we gave them gold to wor-
ship in place of God, to be secured by
short hours and high wages, in return
for a questionable equivalent of service
or at the point of the pistol that was
placed in their hand at birth. And with
such a heritage, that nothing be lacking,
we presented them with the most willing
and efficient servant that crime of any
age has possessed — the automobile.
Hore
ITH these facts and conditions
before us we are forced to ask,
“Is there any hope?” From the human
source there is none; from the divine
there is hope in abundance. And after
thousands of years of consistent and, at
times, deliberate repudiation of the true
way to prosperity, peace, and success,
when the world is on the brink of social,
political, and religious chaos, it seems
fitting that we turn again to the source
of all true knowledge, understanding,
and wisdom. And we are not disap-
pointed; we find definite instruction
for such training as will secure the preser-
vation of high ideals of truth, honesty,
integrity, loyalty, and Christian service
to our boys and girls and to our youth.
“Behold, I have taught you statutes
and judgments, even as the lord my
God commanded me, that ve should
do so in the land whither ye go to possess
it. Keep therefore and do them. . . .
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy
soul diligently, lest thou forget the
things which thine eyes have seen, and
lest they depart from thy heart all
the days of thy life: but teach them thy
sons, and they sons’ sons.’’ Deuteronomy
45, 6, 9.
Again we read: ‘“And when thy son
asketh thee in time to come, saying,
What mean the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the judgments, which the
Lord our God hath commanded you?
Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We
were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt;
and the Lord brought us out of Egypt
with a mighty hand: and the Lord
showed signs and wonders, great and
sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharoah, and
upon all his household, before our eyes:
and He brought us out from thence,
that He might bring us in, to give us
the land which He sware unto our
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