The Sabbath

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 27, 1856

It is very remarkable that the heathen nations, who can be supposed to have no knowledge of the law or history of Moses, accounted one day of the seven more sacred than the rest. Hesiod styles the seventh day "the illustrious light of the Sun;" and Homer says, "Then came the seventh day, which is sacred or holy." Almost all nations, too, who have any notion of religion, have appropriated one day in seven to the purpose of public devotion.