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In 321 Constantine made a law that Sunday should be kept in all cities and towns. But the country people were allowed to work, and not till 538 A.D. was country labor prohibited by the third council of Orleans, which called it the new Sabbath. This was a Roman Catholic council.'
"Rev. John Snyder, in an article in the ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT of April 3, 1887, said:
Every instructed man knows that there is no New Testament authority for the change of the day of rest from the seventh to the first day of the week. Every instructed man knows that the Catholic Church gave to the Christian world the Sunday, and determined the manner in which it should be used. And when Protestantism threw off the authority of the Catholic church it abandoned the only ecclesiastical ground upon which it can logically rest.'
"The above testimony comes from a man who is himself a Sunday keeper. Now we appeal to every honest Protestant to choose whom he will serve. 'Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?' Are you obeying God and keeping His day, or are you obeying the Catholic Church and keeping Sunday? We cannot serve two masters. It is plain to every one, from the above statements of Catholic prelates, that they claim to have changed the law of the living God."
-------------------------- Spring 1879 That same spring I was stationed on the Mankato district, which included southwestern Minnesota and a portion of northwestern Iowa. It was considered a hard field. After the camp meeting, which was held that year at Minneapolis, I took my family to Mankato, a city of about 8000 inhabitants at that time, and situated on the Minnesota |