n the eleventh century. Of this
church Andrew Lang says in his "History of Scotland:"

"They worked on Sunday, but kept Saturday in a Sabbatical
manner."--_Volume I, p. 96._

Skene, in his classic work, "Celtic Scotland," says of these Sabbath
keepers:

"They seemed to have followed a custom of which we find traces
in the early monastic church of Ireland, by which they held
Saturday to be the Sabbath, on which they rested from all their
labors."--_Book 2, chap. 8._

Margaret, of England, married Malcolm the Great, the Scottish king, in
1069. An ardent Catholic, Queen Margaret at once set about Romanizing
the Celtic church. She called in the church leaders, and held long
discussions with them. At last, with the help and authority of her royal
husband, and quoting the instructions of "the blessed Pope Gregory," she
succeeded in turning the ancient Culdee church in Scotland away from the
Sabbath. (See "Life of St. Margaret," by Turgot, her confessor.)

Twelfth to Fourteenth Century

Among the numerous sects of southern Europe and the Alpine valleys, that
were pursued and persecuted by Rome, were at least some who saw and
obeyed the Sabbath truth. Thus, of one of these bodies, the historian
Goldastus says:

"They were called Insabbatati, not because they were
circumcised, but because they kept the Sabbath according to the
Jewish law."--_"Deutsche Biographie," Vol. IX, art. "Goldast.,"
p. 327._

Fifteenth Century

Sabbath keepers in Norway drew the condemnation of a church council held
in 1435:

"The archbishop and the clergy assembled in this provincial
council at Bergen do decide that the keeping of Saturday must
never be permitted to exist, except as granted in the church
law."--_Keyser's "Norske Kirkes Historie," Vol. II, p. 488._

Sixteenth Century

With the setting free of the Word of God by the Reformation, and the
protest against the doctrine of papal tradition, multitudes saw that the
Sunday institution was not of divine origin; while not a few went
farther, recognizing the claims of God's Sabbath. Moravia was a refuge,
in those early Reformation days, for many believers in the Reformed
doctrines, and among these were Sabbath-keeping Christians:

[Illustration: WALDENSES HUNTED BY THE ARMIES OF ROME

"Destitute, afflicted, tormented;... they wandered in deserts, and in
mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth." Heb. 1