" Matt. 12:8.]
[Illustration: RETURNING FROM THE SAVIOUR'S TOMB
"They returned,... and rested the Sabbath day according to the
commandment." Luke 23:56.]
GLIMPSES OF SABBATH KEEPING AFTER NEW TESTAMENT TIMES
Not at once did the innovation of Sunday observance set aside the
Sabbath of the Lord in the practice of even the general church. And
through history, when the general church had fallen away, we catch
glimpses here and there of faithful witnesses to God's holy Sabbath
truth.
First Centuries
An old English writer, Professor Brerewood, of Gresham College, London,
put in shortest phrase what many writers say:
"They know little who do not know that the ancient Sabbath did
remain and was observed by the Eastern churches three hundred
years after our Saviour's passion."--_"Treatise on the
Sabbath," p. 77._
Fourth Century
Canon 29, of the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), shows that the
ecclesiastical system was laboring to put an end to Sabbath keeping:
"Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday [the
Sabbath], but shall work on that day; but the Lord's day [as
they called Sunday] they shall especially honor, and, as being
Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day.
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