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

church, especially in that portion most intimately
connected with the Abyssinians; and that from
various causes, Sunday obtained certain Sabbatic
honors, in consequence of which the two days were
called sisters. We have also shown in another
chapter that the effectual suppression of the
Sabbath in Europe is mainly due to papal influence.
And so for a thousand years we have been tracing
its history in the records of those men which the
church of Rome has sought to kill.
These facts are strikingly corroborated by the
case of the Abyssinians. In consequence of their
location in the interior of Africa, the Abyssinians
ceased to be known to the rest of Christendom
about the fifth century. At this point, the Sabbath
and the Sunday in the Catholic church were
counted sisters. One thousand years later, these
African churches are visited, and though
surrounded by the thick darkness of pagan and
Mahometan superstition, and somewhat affected
thereby, they are found at the end of this period
holding the Sabbath and first-day substantially as
held by the Catholic church when they were lost
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