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

manifest in opposition to Christ, the man of sin has
to have a sign of his power unto salvation, and it
must be, in the nature of things, a rival to the sign
which is the sign of the salvation in Christ. It has to
be that.
And the Church of Rome makes no pretense to
anything else. It makes no pretension to anything
else than that the Sunday which it has set up is the
sign of the power of the church to command men
under sin into the way of salvation. That is settled.
That is the object of it. That is all it has started out
to do, and that is all it did.
Now when the Sunday was set up and enforced
upon the people by the power of earthly
government, it made the practical living papacy, as
it exists in the world. When it was done, Sunday
was put in the place of the Sabbath of the Lord by a
direct and definite purpose. That was done. Here is
the record. This is said by one of the men who did
it. On page 313 of Two Republics, we read as
follows:
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