Assyrians, Egyptians, Arabians, Britons and Germans, all of whom divide their time into weeks. Philo says "the Sabbath is not peculiar to any one people or country, but is common to all the world." Josephus states "that there is no city either of Greeks or barbarians or any _other nation_, where the religion of the Sabbath is not known." But as they, like the great mass of God's professed people in christendom, paid little or no heed to what God had said about the particular day, (except the Jews, and a few others) they (as we are informed in history) adopted peculiar days to suit themselves, viz: the christian nations chose to obey the Pope of Rome, who changed the _seventh_ day Sabbath to the first day, and called it the holy Sabbath; the Persians selected Monday; the Grecians Tuesday; the Assyrians Wednesday; the Egyptians Thursday; the Turks Friday, and the Jews the seventh day, Saturday, as God had commanded. Three standing miracles a week, for about forty years annually, ought to perpetuate the Sabbath. 1st, double the quantity of manna on the sixth day; 2d, none on the seventh; 3d, did not spoil on the seventh day. If it does not matter which day you keep holy to the Lord, then all these nations are right. Now reflect one moment on this, and then open your bible and read the commandment of the God of all these nations! "REMEMBER! (what you have been taught before) _the Sabbath day to keep it holy_;" (which day is it Lord?) "_the_ SEVENTH _is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger, that is within thy gates_." Who is the stranger? (Gentiles.) Now the reason for it will carry us back to paradise. "_For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; and rested on the_ SEVENTH; _wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it_." "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the _Sabbath_ throughout their generations for a _perpetual covenant_; it is a SIGN between me and the children of Israel _forever_." (Why is it Lord?) "_For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the_ SEVENTH _day he rested and was refreshed_." Exo. xx and xxxi.--Which day now will you choose? O, says the reader, the seventh if I knew which of the days it was. If you don't know, why are you so sure that the _first_ day is right? O, [9]because the history of the world has settled that and this is the most we can know. Very well then, does not the _seventh_ come the day before the eighth? If we have not got the days of the week right now, it is not likely that we ever shall. God does not require of us any more than what we know; by that we shall be judged. Luke xxii: 55, 56.