more, no matter what you decide. Will you let me sce you
to-morrow night, after you're rested a bit and have had
time to think things over calmly?” Gam concluded his plea
soberly and w aited for Judy to answer.
“Yes, Coun. Ewill Tins sorry Tried to run away from you.
I did't mean to be yude—1 just didn't want to do what |
had satd I wouldn't do, see?”
With (his the two left the calle and made their way to the
hospital, where Cam parted with Judy at the nurses’ quar-
ters. To Cam it seemed a long time until the appoinunent
on the evening ol the lollowing day, but hospital duties do
not wait for even voung people in love, and the pressure
of munv duties nu ile The time pass more quickly than
either Cam or Judy had thought possible.
“Come in, Can, Judy's quick simile seemed as bright as
ever as she gr ected Cam at the door of the nurses’ parlour,
“I want to tell you something, Cam)’ Judy interrupted
as Cam began 0 speak when they were seated 1n thelr ac
customed pl: ee by the fe. “Ive been thinking hard about
whut vou said in the cafe, and 1 have prayed Thout 1, LOO
—it’s wonderful to be able to pray to God for yoursell and
know that He Licars you, isn't it? Wi c11, Cam, [ know now
that 1 just aim’t do 1t- -1 mean that | just can't be a
Catholic any longer. Twill have to do what the Bible says
I should do. So, Cam lets keep on with our studying.”
Needless to say it was not necessary to do any persuading
on Judy's part to get Gum wo agree to this. The happy in-
terlude tha followed Judy's declaration need not concern
vs. Following this portion of the cvening's events, Judy
ran to her room and returned with the Bible and the note-
book mm which they had been jotting down texts.
“What da vou think we should study about nexiz” she
quired cagerly.
“You may be surprised. Yon know ve had such a shak-
ny up in regard to my religious ideas that 1 wonder just
how pany wrong rdeas 1 have had in the past. I osupposc
thevire like the ideas a lot of people have about medical
matters, and we know how ridiculous many of them are.
“Well, I've Leen thinking the Lise few days about these
two intern chaps, Dave and Gus, who are neither Catholics
nor regular Protestants like the average Protestant, You've
herd me wk about them, and as we know now, they ure
Seventh-day Adventists, They have a lot of unusual ideas
about religion and general practices in daily living, but 1
think the most unusual 1s the tact thar they consider Satur-
day a sacred day instead of Sunday, A year ago T would
have Just dismissed them with the idea that they were i
bit queer and that was that, but now [certainly would not
want to say that without knowing what the truth actually
18.
“I'he funny part about it is that 1 was telling them
the other day about our discoveries on the question of lile
after death, and thev sid that that as exactly what their bee
lief has always been. Could be that they are right about
this Saturday business, too, although I'll admit it sounds
pretty queer.”
“Well, I think IT feel about the way vou da, Cam. Where
do we start?” Judv, now that her decision was made, was
more cager than ever tor a greater knowledge of the Bible.
“I suppose that we'll have to do it the hard wily,” an-
swered Cian, opening the now familiar concordance. “Let's
begin by looking for Sunday. Hm-m, isn't there, apparently.
Let me think. Oh, sure! I remember learning in school that
our names of the days of the week me all trom pagan my-
thology. Naturally they would not he in the Bible, But 1
do remember that my grandmother always called Sunday
the Sabbath. Let's sce if Sabbath is here—ves, here 15 a
whole list of references. Look up Exodus 16: 23.26, please.”
“ "And he said to them; This is what the Lord hath spoken:
To-morrow is the rest of the Sabbath sanctified to the Lord.
Whatsoever work is to be done, do 1: and the meats that
arc to be dressed, dress them: and whatsoever shall remain,
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lay it up until the morning. And they did so as Moses had
commanded, and it did not putrely, neither was there worm
found in it. And Moses said: Eat it to-day, because it 1s the
Sabbath of the Lord: to-day it shall not be found in the
fickl. Gather it six days - but on the seventh d: ay is the Sab-
bath of the Lord; therefore it shall not be found.”
“At feast this is a start on what we are ooking for. Te says
that the seventh day was the Sabbath. I think that this
refers to the falling of the manna during the time that
the Israelites were in the wilderness. As 1 remember the
story {rom my Sunday School days, the manna fell only on
six davs of the week. I had never realized before, though.
that it was particularly 10 teach the people which day “of
the week was the Sabbath. But, 1 guess that is what it was
for.”
“Which day did it say was the Sabbath, Cam?” inquired
Judy thoughtfully.
“The seventh “day is the Sabbath;
“H'm. Well, what's next?”
hl, here's a reference in Exodus 20, ver
will you, pleaser”
‘Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Six
days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. But
on the seventh dav is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God:
thou shalt da no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor
thy he ast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. For in
six days the Lord mide heaven and eardr, and the sea,
and all things that ave in them, and rested on the seventh
dav: therefore the Lond blessed the seventh day, and sanc-
tified i
“This test savs the seventh ay of the week, too, Judy,”
remarked Cam thoughtfully. Say, what day of the week 1s
sunday, anyway?’
“The first day, of course, silly—look at that calendar on
the wall there,” Judy cigeled.
“Well, that seems to settle that,
tually that simple. 1
is what it says here”
ses 3-11. Read
then, Of, tt can’t be ac-
mean if Saturday is the seventh day of
the week, as it certainly gs, and the Bible says that the
Sabbath 1s the seventh day of the week, surely everyone
would observe Saturday as the Sabbath.” Cam frowned
thoughtfully. He well knew the danger of oversimpliica-
gon, which this seemed to bie, and he was not satisfied,
“What do you suppose it says in the New Testament?”
Judy offered.
“That's 1t!” Cam snapped his fingers excitedly. “All the
Jews still observe Saturday, don't they? And they believe
only the Old Testament, The Christians observe Sunday.
aud they believe the New Testament. The direction to
Christians to keep the first day of the week must be in
the New Testmnent. Why, we shouldn't have even tried
to find anything in the Old Testament, for I don’t suppose
that there would be a single text directing our attention
to the first day of the week us a sacred ds ay. It's funny,
though: do vou know, 1 never before had even thought
which dav of the week Saturday and Sunday weve!”
“Neither had 1, as a matter of fact. Next time, though,
we'll know, and we will start right in with the New Testa-
ment,” said Judy, closing her Bible thoughtfully. She and
Cam had many things 10 talk about after her holiday visit
home, and it was alre ady getting late. Hence there was no
nore study on that particular cvening,
“To- night, Judy, we're going to find out what the New
Testament has to say about which day is the Sabbath, or
holy day for Christians,” stated Camm at the beginning of
their next Bible study. “Before we start, though, I'll tell
you that I've been doing a little reading about the days
of the week, and T find in the encyclopzdias that the weck
is the oldest measuranent of time, other than the day it
self, known to man. The seventh-day week has heen used
hy most of the world as long as we know anything about
the history of man, and the order of the days 1s the same as
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