WHY ARE THERE THREE SABBATHS?


	Everyone knows that the Christians celebrate the sabbath on Sunday,
the Jews on Saturday, and the Moslems on Friday.  Recent research has
uncovered the true reasons for this.

	Once there were only Jews living in Palestine.  They observed the
law and kept the sabbath holy, but the Lord was not satisfied; they were
too smug.

	So the Lord put into the heads of some of the young men the idea of
exploring the world.  The young men proposed to send one expedition to the
East to go until it came to the eastern edge of the world and another
expedition to the West to do the same.  It was realized that the world was
large and these expeditions might take many years so each was put in charge
of a young but well thought of rabbi of unimpeachable holiness.
Each expedition was instructed to press on as rapidly as possible but above
all to observe the law in the minutest detail and to keep the sabbath holy.