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

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Chapter 25<br />

How <strong>and</strong> When Sunday<br />

Appropriated <strong>the</strong> Fourth<br />

Comm<strong>and</strong>ment<br />

The light <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Reformation destroyed many <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> best Sunday arguments <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> preceding Dark<br />

Ages - The controversy between <strong>the</strong> Presbyterians<br />

<strong>and</strong> Episcopalians <strong>of</strong> Engl<strong>and</strong> brings Sunday<br />

sacredness to <strong>the</strong> test -- The former discover <strong>the</strong><br />

means <strong>of</strong> enforcing <strong>the</strong> observance <strong>of</strong> Sunday by<br />

<strong>the</strong> fourth comm<strong>and</strong>ment -- How this can be done -<br />

- Effects <strong>of</strong> this extraordinary discovery -- <strong>History</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sunday festival concluded<br />

The light <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Reformation necessarily<br />

dissipated into thin air many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most substantial<br />

arguments by which <strong>the</strong> Sunday festival had been<br />

built up during <strong>the</strong> Dark Ages. The roll that fell<br />

from Heaven -- <strong>the</strong> apparition <strong>of</strong> St. Peter -- <strong>the</strong><br />

relief <strong>of</strong> souls in purgatory, <strong>and</strong> even <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

damned in hell -- <strong>and</strong> many prodigies <strong>of</strong> fearful<br />

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