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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 36.

The Real Fact.

MANY people are led to believe that the Sabbath was changed immediately after the resurrection of Christ, either by his instruction or that of his apostles; but such is not the fact. Had such instruction ever been given, we should find it recorded in the New Testament. We know also, that the Christians of all the world, with few exceptions, continued for a long time after the resurrection to observe the seventh day of the week, by meeting for worship, and the celebration of the Lord's Supper on that day. Socrates Scholasticus, an eminent church historian, who wrote about A. D. 450, says:—

“Almost all the churches throughout the whole world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, refuse to do this.”—Ecclesiastical History of Socrates. Bohn's Edition, p. 289.

All students of church history know that the “sacred mysteries” of the early church were the communion or Lord's Supper, and that by the term Sabbath, early writers never mean other than the seventh day of the week.—Light of Home.