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Excerpt from The Sabbath: A Concise Bible History of the Israelitish or Jewish Sabbaths
The prevalent diversity of opinions, respecting the Sabbath and its observance, suggested the following work, which is offered to the public, with the hope of harmonizing all the conflicting Sabbath views, on the basis of the Scriptures.
Within the last quarter of a century, a new church organization arose attracting much attention by their earnest advocacy of the seventh day of the week, as the proper and only day to be observed as the Sabbath day, "holy to our Lord." Very soon they asked and obtained legislative authority to work and carry on their occupations on the first day of the week, which had been, time out of mind, held to be the Christian Sabbath by nearly every Christian people in this and other countries. The Seventh-day Sabbath views, were opposed by various arguments, setting forth, that the Sabbath was changed from the seventh day, to the first day.
Unfortunately, however, for the truth, both contending parties were agreed in maintaining the error that originated the misunderstanding. Each party claiming the seventh day of creation as the origin of the Sabbath, with four thousand years of unabated obligation upon all mankind, made the institution of universal application. Upon this unauthorized assumption of origin, its long standing would indicate that the Seventh day was of perpetual obligation; giving to the Seventh day view, the greater weight of argument.
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