The Third Angel's Message (1893) - Alonzo T. Jones

all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and
hallowed it."
Mr. Jones: The commandment says the seventh
day; but in the face of this plain declaration of the
Lord that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
Lord, the Senate has put its own interpretation
upon that commandment, and has declared that the
statement that "the seventh day is the Sabbath"
means "the first day of the week, commonly called
Sunday." Thus the Congress of the United States
has taken the fourth commandment from the Bible
and put it into its legislation, and has put its own
interpretation upon that statute. If Congress can
interpret the Bible on one point, it can interpret it
on every other point. So that when it went beyond
the Constitution of this country in this thing, it has
put itself and the government in line with all the
Church-and-State governments that have ever been
and has assumed to itself to be the interpreter of the
Bible for all the people in the land and for all who
come into the land. That is what has been done.
106