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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
those meetings were kept? or where is it

ordained they should be always observed? or,

which is the sum of all, where is it decreed that

the observation of the first day should

abrogate, or abolish, the sanctifying of the

seventh day, which God commanded

everlastingly to be kept holy? Not one of these

is expressed in the written word of God.”

In the Catechism of the Christian Religion, by

Stephen Keenan (Boston, Patrick Donahoe,

1857), p. 206, on the subject of the third

(fourth) commandment, we find these

questions and answers: —

“Ques. What does God ordain by this

commandment?

“Ans. He ordains that we sanctify, in a special

manner, this day on which he rested from the

labor of creation.