The Gradual Change from Sabbath to Sunday
QUESTION.—“Is there any printed record in the world, of the year and month, and day when the seventh day was dropped or skipped over for the first?” ANS.—There is no such record, because the change was not accomplished instantly, but gradually. If there had been any attempt to make the change universal at one time, we should doubtless have a record of determined resistance on the part of many. But heresies never arise in that way; men do not backslide from the faith in a moment of time. The change was gradually introduced, some for a time keeping both the seventh and the first day; but the adherents to the first day increased in number in proportion as merely nominally converted heathen were allowed to come into the church, and exert an influence.