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ANOTHER SUNDAY PAPER

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Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Oct 4, 1853

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 4, No. 13.

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ANOTHER SUNDAY PAPER.

The leading Catholic paper of this City, The Freeman's Journal, now issues an edition on Sunday—a movement which seems to surprise some of our Protestant neighbors. It ought not to surprise any body who is at all familiar with history, or with the Catholic controversies of the day. Scarcely any thing is plainer from history, than that the Catholic church has played an important part in the abolition of the Sabbath and the elevation of the Sunday festival; and in almost every controversy we have read between a Protestant and a Catholic, this claim has been set up, and it has been maintained that the observance of Sunday cannot be justified without resort to the Fathers and the traditions of the Catholic church. If that church has a right to make a Sabbath of Sunday, has it not an equal right to decide what is the proper manner of using the day? And does not consistency require that those who accept the Sunday as a Sabbath on Catholic authority, should also hear to them in regard to the manner of keeping it.—Sab. Rec.