History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week - John N. Andrews

in defense of this observance. He assigns no divine
precept nor apostolic example for this festival. For
his reference to what Christ taught his disciples, as
appears from the connection, was to the general
system of the Christian religion, and not to the
observance of Sunday. If it be said that Justin
might have learned from tradition what is not to be
found in the New Testament relative to Sunday
observance, and that after all Sunday may be a
divinely-appointed festival, it is sufficient to
answer, 1. That this plea would show only tradition
in favor of the Sunday festival. 2. That Justin
Martyr is a very unsafe guide; his testimony
relative to the Lord's supper differs from that of the
New Testament. 3. That the American Tract
Society, in a work which it publishes against
Romanism, bears the following testimony relative
to the point before us:--
"Justin Martyr appears indeed peculiarly
unfitted to lay claim to authority. It is notorious
that he supposed a pillar erected on the island of
the Tiber to Semo Sanchus, an old Sabine deity, to
be a monument erected by the Roman people in
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