Lessons for Bible Students.
(HISTORY OF THE SABBATH, PP. 271-294.) WHAT did the opening of the sixth century witness? What had happened to the western empire? For what was the way now prepared? In the early part of this century, what position was assigned to the pope, and by whom? What prophetic period dates from this event? What position were the people of God now compelled to take? Had Sunday yet acquired the title of Sabbath? To what was the title of Sabbath still applied? State the facts in reference to the application of the term Dominicum diem, or Lord's day, to Sunday. At what time is Sunday first mentioned as the Christian Sabbath? How long was it before any restraint was put upon Sunday labor in the East? When was the first council of Orleans held? What action did that council take on the Lord's day? What was decreed in the council of Arragon in 518? What did the third council of Orleans, A. D. 538, say of the observance of Sunday? In 588 another council was called; what was the occasion of it? About a year from that time what was done? What fear did Gregory of Tours have, and what did he do? What miracle does Francis West adduce in support of first-day sacredness? What did the pope at the conclusion of the sixth century say of those who kept both Sabbath and Sunday? In the early part of the seventh century what other foe to the Sabbath arose? What day did he select as his religious festival? What did the Mahometans and Romanists thus do? What did the twelfth council of Toledo, in Spain, A. D. 681, forbid? What is the earliest mention of Sunday in English statutes? What did the council of Chalons desire of the emperor? p. 280. How did the pope lend a helping hand in checking Sunday profanation? Why was another council summoned? What famous first-day argument was, for the first time, brought forward at this council? What was done under the emperors Lewis and Lothar? In A. D. 868, what answer did pope Nicholas send to the Bulgarians, in reply to questions concerning the Lord's day? When did the emperor Leo restrain labor in the East which had been permitted by Constantine's decree? Of what Sunday laws in England do we read in this century? What did the pope and his council do nineteen years later? When did king Athelston make a law that there should be no marketing, &c., on the Lord's day? What did a convocation of the English clergy at this time decree? What other English rulers made laws respecting Sunday? Did the Sunday festival gain any footing in Norway during this time? Did it make any progress in Spain? What doctrine was put forth concerning souls in purgatory on the Lord's day? What other similar argument was at the same time brought forward? What was done in the council of Clermont, A. D. 1095? How was the king of England admonished in the middle of the twelfth century to restrain work upon Sunday? A divine warrant being still wanting, what was produced at the commencement of the thirteenth century? By whom was this epistle sent forth into different parts of the world? p. 288, bottom. To whom, then, is this shameful fraud directly traceable? Who filled the office of pope at this time? How does Bower speak of him? What was the first act of Papal aggression? And when the Papacy had reached its utmost hight of power, what did the pope do? Did the king of England favor this mission of Eustuchus? Where was the famous roll from heaven again produced? By whom was the work of establishing the Sunday institution still carried forward in England? What was done in France in the year 1244? What shows that the Spaniards were not backward in this work? Were the rulers of the church and realm of England aware of any Bible authority for enforcing the observance of the day? In what year did a public council confess the divine origin of the Sabbath, and the human origin of the Sunday festival? From this long list of human Sunday laws, what must we conclude?