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21. What did this council, in its twenty-ninth canon, decree concerning
the Sabbath and Christians who continued to observe it?
“Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday [Sabbath], but shall
work on that day.... If, however, they are found Judaizing, _they shall be
shut out from Christ_.”—_Hefele’s __“__History of the Councils of the
Church,__”__ Vol. II, page 316._
NOTES.—Some of the further steps taken by church and state
authorities in bringing about this change may be noted as
follows:—
“In 386, under Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius, it was
decreed that all litigation and business should cease [on
Sunday]....
“Among the doctrines laid down in a letter of Pope Innocent I,
written in the last year of his papacy (416), is that Saturday
should be observed as a fast-day....
“In 425, under Theodosius the Younger, abstinence from theatricals
and the circus [on Sunday] was enjoined....
“In 538, at a council at Orleans, ... it was ordained that
everything previously permitted on Sunday should still be lawful;
but that work at the plow, or in the vineyard, and cutting,
reaping, threshing, tilling, and hedging should be abstained from,
that people might more conveniently attend church....
“About 590 Pope Gregory, in a letter to the Roman people,
denounced as the prophets of Antichrist those who maintained that
work ought not to be done on the seventh day.”—_“__Law of
Sunday__”__ by James T. Ringgold, pages 265-267._
The last paragraph of the foregoing quotation indicates that even
as late as 590 A.D. there were those in the church who observed
and who taught the observance of the Bible Sabbath, the seventh
day.
22. What determines whose servants we are?
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, _his
servants ye are to whom ye obey_?” Rom. 6:16.
23. When tempted to bow down and worship Satan, what reply did Christ
make?
“_Get thee hence, Satan_: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord
thy God, and _Him only shalt thou serve_.” Matt. 4:10, 11.
24. What do Catholics say of the observance of Sunday by Protestants?
“It was the Catholic Church which, by the authority of Jesus Christ, has
transferred this rest to the Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of
our Lord. Thus _the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage
they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the [Catholic]
church_.”—_“__Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today,__”__ by Mgr.
Segur, page 213._
25. What kind of worship does the Saviour call that which is not according
to God’s commandments?
“But _in vain they do worship Me_, teaching for doctrines _the
commandments of men_.” Matt. 15:9.
26. When Israel had apostatized, and were almost universally worshiping
Baal, what appeal did Elijah make to them?
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