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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 13 – Persecuting Powers Professedly Christian
Gladstone, had given their voice against the

opening of museums, etc., on Sunday. The

same policy is enforced by some, at least, of

the English in their dependencies. One of the

first acts of the Marquis of Ripon, who was

made viceroy of India in 1880, was, according

to the Christian Weekly, to issue an order

forbidding official work of any kind on

Sunday.

In France the question is also agitated. The

senate having occasion to consider some

proposed changes in the Sunday laws, an

eminent senator, M. Barthélemy Saint Hilaire,

according to the French journal, Le

Christianisme au 19e Siècle, of June 11, 1880,

opened the eyes of his hearers by clear

argument showing that the seventh day, and

not the first day, is the Sabbath of the Bible.