Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1907 — The Christian Sunday. [ARTICLE]

The Christian Sunday.

The keeping of Sunday, the first day of the week, as a sacred day in memoryoftlie‘ resurrection the descent of the Holy Ghost dates from the beginning of Christianity. It was called the Lords day in all the churches, but gradually acquired the name of Sun-day from the Romans, who called the first day of the week dies solis, or day sacred to the sun. The first official ■ recognition of Sunday as a holy day is in an edict of the Roman Emperor Constantine in 321 ordering that all work should cease in the cities “on the venerable Sunday,” but permitting necessary farm work to be attended to. —St. Louis Republic. A French suggestion for preventing automobilists from “scorching” is to forbid the use of masks and goggles.