Sabbath-Keepers in Hungary.
The Independent of March 18, has the following item: “A congregation of Seventh-day Christians in Hungary, being refused tolerance by the laws, has embraced Judaism, in order to be allowed to exist in connection with one of the ‘received religions.’” We suspect that there is more of the above than is shown in this brief item. In searching the history of Sabbath-keepers, we have found several traces of Sabbath-keeping Christians in the north of Europe. There is sufficient evidence to show that within the territory of the Greek church, and in other neighboring localities, there yet exist branches of the primitive church, which have never been under the control of the Papacy, and which have never given up the observance of the Sabbath. The history and present state of similar large branches, in Abyssinia and in Armenia, are well known. How far these may wear the semblance of Judaism, from force of circumstances, we do not know; but they are a living protest, as they have been for fifteen centuries, against the oft-asserted tradition, that the Sabbath was not observed by the early Christians. They show, also, that the Sunday made but little headway during the early centuries, until church and state were united under the dominion of the Papacy.—Sabbath Recorder.