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

was easy for men to forget that Christ, as Lord of
the Sabbath, had claimed it as his own institution,
and to call the Sabbath a Jewish institution which
Christians should not regard.[43]
2. The hatred of the church of Rome toward the
Sabbath, and its determination to elevate Sunday to
the highest place. This church, as the chief in the
work of apostasy, took the lead in the earliest effort
to suppress the Sabbath by turning it into a fast.
And the very first act of papal aggression was by
an edict in behalf of Sunday. Thenceforward, in
every possible form, this church continued this
work until the pope announced that he had received
a divine mandate for Sunday observance [the very
thing lacking] in a roll which fell from Heaven.
3. The voluntary observance of memorable
days. In the Christian church, almost from the
beginning, men voluntarily honored the fourth, the
sixth, and the first days of the week, and also the
anniversary of the Passover and the Pentecost, to
commemorate the betrayal, the death, and the
resurrection, of Christ, and the descent of the Holy
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