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about the year 1795. "The word Sunday is not found in the bible," it
derived its name from the heathen nations of the North, because the day
was dedicated to the sun. Neither is the Sabbath applied to the first
day any more than it is to the sixth day of the week. While Daniel
beheld the little horn, (popery) he said, among other things, he would
_think_ to change times and laws. Now this could not mean of men,
because it ever has been the prerogative of absolute rulers like
himself, to change [42]manmade laws. Then to make the prophecy
harmonize with the scripture, he must have meant times and laws
established by God, because he might think and pass decrees as he has
done, but he, nor all the universe could ever change God's times and
laws. Jesus says that "times and seasons were in the power of the
father." The Sabbath is the most important law which God ever
instituted. "How long refuse ye to keep my commandments, and my laws,
see for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath." Exod. xvi: 28, 29.
Then it's clear from the history, that this is in part what Daniel
meant. Now the second advent believers have professed all confidence in
his visions: why then doubt this. Whoever feels disposed to defend and
sustain the decrees of that "blasphemous" power, and especially Pope
Gregory and the great Constantine, the murderer, shown to be the _moral_
reformer in this work of changing the Sabbath, are welcome to their
principles and feelings. I detest these acts, in common with all others
which have emanated from these ten and one horned powers. The
Revelations show us clearly that they were originated by the devil. If
you say this history is not true then you are bound to refute it. If you
cannot, you are as much in duty bound to believe it as any other
history, even, that George Washington died in 1799! If the bible
argument, and testimony from history are to be relied on as evidence,
then it is as clear as a sunbeam that the seventh day Sabbath is a
perpetual sign, and is as binding upon man as it ever was. But we are
told we must keep the first day of the week for the Sabbath as an
ordinance to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus. I for one had rather
believe Paul. See Rom. vi: 3-5; Gal. iii: 27; Col. ii: 12.

A word more respecting time. See 31st page. Here I have shown that the
sun in the centre, regulates all time for the earth--fifty-two weeks to
the year, one hundred and sixty-eight hours to the week, the seventh