the times and the laws of the Most High.

Here, again, the evidence points straight to the Church of Rome; for it
is a fact that the Papacy has laid violent hands on the law of God--upon
the precept, too, that deals with sacred time--and has _thought_ to
change it.

In a volume to be seen in the British Museum, dated 1545, the following
comment on Dan. 7:25 is attributed to Philipp Melanchthon, the Reformer,
associate of Luther (reproduced with the old English spelling):

"He changeth the tymes and lawes that any of the sixe worke
dayes commanded of God will make them unholy and idle dayes
when he lyste, or of their owne holy dayes abolished make worke
dayes agen, or when they changed ye Saterday into Sondaye....
They have changed God's lawes and turned them into their owne
tradicions to be kept above God's precepts."--_"Exposition of
Daniel the Prophete," Gathered out of Philipp Melanchthon,
Johan Ecolampadius, etc., by George Joye, 1545, p. 119._

This is exactly what the power represented by the little horn was to
assume to do. The commandment of God is plain:

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor,
and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God: in it thou shalt not do any work.... For in six days the Lord made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed
it." Ex. 20:8-11.

A Change in Practice

But in general practice there has been a change--the first day is
commonly observed instead of the seventh day, which the Lord declares he
blessed and made holy. The Roman Catholic Church points exultingly to
the fact that this change, so universally allowed today, has come about
solely through church tradition without Scriptural authority. For
instance, one Catholic writer says:

"You will tell me that Saturday was the _Jewish_ Sabbath, but
that the _Christian_ Sabbath has been changed to Sunday.
Changed! but by whom? Who has authority to change an express
commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said,
Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say,
Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on
the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its
stead? This is a most important question, which I know not how
you can answer.