The Roman Catholic Church and Sunday
Mr. Crafts says that Sabbath-keepers "must show that the Roman Catholic Church 'changed the day' of the Sabbath." What is meant by this? Sunday observance came into the church through apostasy, through half-converted, sun-worshiping heathen. That apostasy began as early as the days of the apostles. The Gauls turned back to the heathen times, chief of which was Sunday-keeping. Gal. 4: 8-10. That apostasy grew into the Roman Catholic Church, which used its ecclesiastical power and organization to make a Sunday-morning service cover the whole day, and what began as local customs, universal. Constantine helped forward this work mightily by promulgating the first civil Sunday law. The apostasy in the church was responsible. That apostasy developed into the Roman Catholic Church. And the Roman Catholic Church claims the power to change times and laws, in proof of which she cites the Sunday holy day as an evidence. When Protestants admit that there is no scriptural authority, there is but one authority left, the church of the apostasy.