"You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and
the Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the
observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against
the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place
of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep
holy the seventh day is one of the ten commandments; you
believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you
authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with
your own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the
Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the
New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly
altered."--_"Library of Christian Doctrine: Why Don't You Keep
the Holy Sabbath Day?" (Burns and Oates London), p. 3._

Every one who studies the question must recognize the fact that there is
no change authorized in Scripture. As Canon Eyton, of the Church of
England, says:

"There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about
abstaining from work on Sunday.... Into the rest of Sunday no
divine law enters."--_"The Ten Commandments" (Truebner & Co.),
London._

Dr. Heylyn, of the Church of England, wrote:

"Take which you will, either the Fathers or the moderns, and we
shall find no Lord's day instituted by any apostolical mandate;
no Sabbath set on foot by them upon the first day of the
week."--_"History of the Sabbath," part 2, chap. 1._

Authorities, both Protestant and Catholic, freely acknowledge that there
is no divine authority for Sunday keeping. There has been a change in
practice and teaching, but with no Scriptural authority.

What the Papacy Claims

The prophecy of Daniel 7 forewarned all that the ecclesiastical power
that was to rise upon the division of the Roman Empire would _think_ to
change the times and the laws of the Most High. The Papacy steps forward
and claims boldly that the church has power to set aside Scripture, to
institute holy times, and even to change the day made holy and
commanded by the Almighty as the day of rest for His people.

In a Catholic work, "An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine," by Dr.
Henry Turberville, page 61, we read:

"_Question._--By whom was the change [of the Sabbath] made?

"_Answer._--By the rulers of the church, the apostles who kept
the Lord's day....

"_Ques._--