Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ: Signs of the Second Coming and the Lord’s Day Alliance formerly the American Sabbath Union
The Lord’s Day Alliance (formerly known as the American Sabbath Union) is an ecumenical Christian first-day Sabbatarian organization,[1] based in the United States and Canada that was founded in 1888 by mainstream Christian denominations.[2] These Churches worked together to found the Lord’s Day Alliance in order to effect change in the public sphere, most notably with respect to “lobbying for the passage of Sunday-rest laws.”[2] The Lord’s Day Alliance publishes a quarterly magazine called Sunday.[3]
The Lord’s Day Alliance, supported by labor unions, has lobbied “to prevent secular and commercial interests from hampering freedom of worship and from exploiting workers.”[4] For example, the United States Congress was supported by the Lord’s Day Alliance in securing “a day of rest for city postal clerks whose hours of labor, unlike those of city mail carriers, were largely unregulated.”[5]
The Canadian branch of Lord’s Day Alliance (now known as the People for Sunday Association of Canada) was successful in passing the Lord’s Day Act in 1906, which remained in force until 1985.[6]
The Lord’s Day Alliance continues to “encourage all people to recognize and observe a day of Sabbath rest and to worship the risen Lord Jesus Christ, on the Lord’s Day, Sunday”.[7]
The object of the Lord’s Day Alliance of the U.S. is to encourage all people to recognize and observe a day of Sabbath rest and to worship the risen Lord Jesus Christ, on the Lord’s Day, Sunday; and for that purpose to gather and diffuse information, to publish documents, to use the press, to cause public addresses to be made and to use other means as shall be expedient and proper to the end that the blessings of the Lord’s Day and the benefits of Sabbath rest shall be secured for all people.
The Lord’s Day Alliance of the United States (LDA) was founded in 1888. That year representatives of six major Protestant denominations met in Washington, D.C. to organize the American Sabbath Union; this name was later changed to The Lord’s Day Alliance of the United States. The LDA has been the one national organization whose sole purpose is to maintain and cultivate the first day of the week as a time for rest, worship, Christian education and spiritual renewal.
Today, The Lord’s Day Alliance promotes the importance of the Sabbath, and a message of spiritual renewal and personal well-being in this fast-paced 24/7, 21st century American culture.
- Hester, Joseph P. (23 January 2006). The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues. McFarland. p. 165. ISBN 9781476608617.
- ^ Jump up to:a b Darrow, Clarence (2005). Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society. Ohio University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780821416327.
- ^ http://ldausa.org/about/sunday-magazine//
- ^ Fahlbusch, Erwin; Bromiley, Geoffrey William (2005). The Encyclopedia of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 787. ISBN 9780802824165.
- ^ Fuller, Wayne E. (1 October 2010). Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Illinois Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780252091353.
- ^ Mencken, Henry Louis (2004). Mencken’s America. Ohio University Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780821415313.
- ^ Jump up to:a b “About”. The Lord’s Day Alliance of the U.S. 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
Parousia Second Coming of Jesus Christ: Signs of the Second Coming and the Lord’s Day Alliance formerly the American Sabbath Union
