ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF SUNDAY.
By Editor
NUMBER 9 of the Bible Student's Library, entitled, "The Origin and Growth of Sunday Observance in the Christian Church," lies before us. This little work of 96 pages is a most able treatise on this subject. Heretofore the main evidence relied upon by seventh-day advocates, to show the change of the Sabbath, has been the inspired predictions concerning it, their fulfillment as recorded by historians, and the admissions and claims of the Roman Church. While this evidence is sufficient to establish the point, it is objected to because of the Roman Catholic testimony. It is contended that evidence is drawn from the enemies of the Bible and the Sunday. All these objections are obviated by the work we are reviewing. Its evidence and historical statements are taken, not from the enemies of the Bible and Sunday, but from the friends, advocates, and observers of Sunday. The thoroughness of the work is indicated by the name of its author, the late Elder J. H. Waggoner. The work is in two parts. Part 1, after a very candid and fair statement of the question, takes up the "Pagan Origin of Sunday," and "Constantine's Motive." Part 2 discusses "Sunday Established in the Church by the Papacy," "Council of Laodicea," "Abuse of History to aid the Sunday," "Constantine's Second Sunday Law," "Catholic Church Councils," "Decrees of the Leos," "Letter of Pope Leo the Great," "Catholic Frauds for Sunday," "Sylvester, Constantine, and the Lord's Day," "Candid Sunday History," and "History is not Bible Interpretation." The above will give something of an idea of the scope of the work; but to value the work aright it must be read. No Sabbath-keeping family ought to be without a copy, and the workers in the last message ought to put forth special efforts to circulate it. This pamphlet is one of the very best of the good numbers thus far published in the Bible Student's Library. Its price is only 10 cents. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., or 43 Bond Street, New York.