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Sunday Observance in Early Christianity

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 28.

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Sunday Observance in Early Christianity

"It may therefore be accepted as a historical fact that for nearly 300 years the first day of the week was not regarded as a Sabbath. In the middle of the fourth century, the council of Laodicea, repeating previous injunctions that Christians should not Judaize by observing the Mosaic Sabbath day, went on to advise them 'rather, if they could,' to abstain from labor on the Lord's day. This is the earliest extant legislation of the Christian church upon the subject of Sunday observance."