Armageddon and the International Sunday Law - God's Holidays

Their practices corresponded with the Paschal table of Anatolius,Bishop of Laodicea in Syria, who had, in the year 277, drawn up acanon on the basis of the nineteen years cycle in which the 19thMarch was considered as the vernal equinox. (Bellesheim’sHistory of the Catholic Church of Scotland, vol. i. 135 Edin.,1887) But this displeased that Church which now called herselfthe ‘mother and mistress of all Churches.’ She could not toleratethe slightest deviation from her own practice, and accordinglysent, as we have seen, her agents to the Scots, with her ‘scissors’in the one hand, and her ‘paschal tables’ in the other, to imposeupon them uniformity.” (History of the Scottish Nation, pp. 663-666) Notice that in this quote the author, J.A. Wylie, incorrectlycalled Sunday the Sabbath.Wylie further elaborates, stating that Queen Margaret tried toget the Scottish people to change from observing Passover toobserving Easter. “The points raised were these: uniformity ofrite, the Lenten fast, the observance of the Sabbath, the practice ofmarriage, the celebration of the eucharist, and the time of theobservance of Easter. The Scottish Church and her clergy werecharged on all these points, as being in error, and needing to be‘brought back into the way of truth.’ Is not this a clear admissionthat the Columban Church in the end of the eleventh centurystill occupied separate ground from Rome? that she refused toreceive the Roman laws and customs, and that she was not subjectto the Roman jurisdiction, but on the contrary maintained herancient independence? And does it not cut the ground frombeneath the feet of those who assert that the Scottish Church bythis time was, and had for some centuries previous, been one withthe Church of Rome in doctrine and worship? Surely QueenMargaret would not have convoked a conference to bring about aunion between two churches if they were already one and thesame? A more decided proof there could not be of the40