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

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Auxerre a city in Champain, in <strong>the</strong> reign <strong>of</strong> Clotair<br />

king <strong>of</strong> France, where it was decreed. ... 'that no<br />

man should be allowed to plow, nor cart, or do any<br />

such thing on <strong>the</strong> Lord’s <strong>Day</strong>.' "[12]<br />

Such were some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> efforts made in <strong>the</strong> sixth<br />

century to advance <strong>the</strong> sacredness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sunday<br />

festival. And Morer tells us that,<br />

"For fear <strong>the</strong> doctrine should not take without<br />

miracles to support it, Gregory <strong>of</strong> Tours [about<br />

A.D. 590] furnishes us with several to that<br />

purpose."[13]<br />

Mr. Francis West, an English first-day writer,<br />

gravely adduces one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se miracles in support <strong>of</strong><br />

first-day sacredness:--<br />

"Gregory <strong>of</strong> Tours reporteth, 'that a<br />

husb<strong>and</strong>man, who upon <strong>the</strong> Lord’s <strong>Day</strong> went to<br />

plough his field, as he cleaned his plough with an<br />

iron, <strong>the</strong> iron stuck so fast in his h<strong>and</strong> that for two<br />

years he could not be delivered from it, but carried<br />

it about continually to his exceeding great pain <strong>and</strong><br />

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