" Ex. 20:8-11.
A Change in Practice
But in general practice there has been a change--the first day is
commonly observed instead of the seventh day, which the Lord declares he
blessed and made holy. The Roman Catholic Church points exultingly to
the fact that this change, so universally allowed today, has come about
solely through church tradition without Scriptural authority. For
instance, one Catholic writer says:
"You will tell me that Saturday was the _Jewish_ Sabbath, but
that the _Christian_ Sabbath has been changed to Sunday.
Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express
commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said,
Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say,
Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on
the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its
stead? This is a most important question, which I know not how
you can answer.
"You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and
the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the
observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against
the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place
of that day which the Bible has commanded.
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