Thirteen chapters on First day observance

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Introduction

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

Sunday not prcperly called the "Sabbath," Never was any "change of the Sabbath. " The ground of first-day observance. The time when Sunday observance began 17-21

THE SEVENTH- D AY ADVENTIST FALSE PROPH- ETESS, MRS. ELLEN G. WHITE 22-34

CHAPTER I.— Sect. 1-9. THE LORD'S DAY

He kuriake hemera — Rev. 1:10. The Lexicographers on Kuriakos. Sabbath not the kuriake hemera. Laws of Interpretation. Smith's Diet, on kuriake hemera. Kuriakos occurs but twice in the New Testament. The Apostles formed the word kuriakos. John uses "Sabbath" for seventh-day of the week. Objections Answered.— Isa. 58:18— Mark 2:28 35-51

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CHAPTER II Sect. lO 28 (a)

THE LORD'S DAY FROM A. D. 440 TO A, D. 63.

Sozomen. Augustine. Eusebius. Peter of Alexandria. Anatolius. Apostolical Constitutions. Cyprian. Origen. Tertullian. Clement of Alexandria. Bardesanes. Gnosticism. Dionysius. Justin Martyr. Epistle of Barnabas. Pliny. Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, John. Luke. ''Fathers of the Catholic church" 52-92

THE COMMENTATORS ON REV. 1:10.

Barnes. Lange. Bible Commentary. Meyer. Henry. Jamieson. Fausset & Brown. Clark. Scott. Eclectic Commentary 119-121

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CHAPTER VII,— Sect. 54-59 (a)

THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AT CORINTH AND AMONG THE CHURCHES OF GALATIA.

1 Cor. 16:1-2 — kata — Every first-day of the week. The Translations. American Bible Union. Living Oracles. Interlinear New Testament. Emphatic Diaglott. Syriac N. T., Murdock. Young's Bible Translation. Noyes' N. T. Translation, The Commentators. Meyer. Macknight. ? Historian Andrews. A public meeting at Corinth a necessary inference. Galatians also met on first day— par heauto. Emphatic Diaglott. Living Oracles. Rotherham. Westcott & Hort. Liddell & Scott. Strong. The Commentators on 1 Cor. 16: 1-2. Macknight. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown. Doddridge. Clark. Syriac of 1 Cor. 11:20. Date of Peshito Syriac. Schaff-Herzog. Kitto . 122-134

CHAPTER VIII.— Sect. 60-71. THE MEETING AT TROAS

Acts 20:7. An actual instance of a congregation of Christians meeting oa the first-day of the week. No Sabbath meeting at Troas. Not a special called meeting. Paul walks nineteen miles. Methods of reckoning the day. Time of observing the supper. Traveling on Sunday. John uses Roman time. Liddell & Scott. Westcott & Hort. Barnes. Dr. Thompson. Emmaus. Schaff-Herzog Eucy. Probabilities as to how Luke reckons the day in Acts 20:7. Rauschenbauch, Hackett. Barnes. Ramsay, The Commentaries on Acts 20:7. Olshausen. Pulpit Commentary. Matthew Henry. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown. Conybeare & Howson. Barnes. Alford. Weekly communion the rule in the primitive cnurch. Barnes. Scott. Mason. Clarke. Matthew Henry. Kitto. Schaff- Herzog Ency. Watson. Cramp. Syriac of Acts 20:7. One name or designation of a day at a fme is sufficient 135-166

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CHAPTER IX— Sect. 72-76. TWO FIRST-DAY MEETINGS

Jno. 20:19-26. Jesus met with the disciples on tne day of his resurrection and also one week later — "After eight days." Biblical scholars on the time of the Jno. 20:26 meeting. Barnes. Matthew Henry. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown. Hanna. Whedon. "Eight day" in the early church. Objection answered. 1 Chron. 9:25. Andrews 167-182

CHAPTER X— Sect. 77-78. SUNDAY AND THE ROMAN CATHOLICS

Did the Catholics change the Sabbath? When and where did Rome make the change? Sunday-keeping the Mark of the Beast. Uriah Smith. Andrews. Mrs. White. The real teaching of the Catholics. Douay Bible. Catholic Dictionary. Dullard. Hummert. Tract, Who Changed the Sabbath. The date of the establishment of the Papacy. Uriah Smith 183 190

CHAPTER XI— Sect. 79. CONSTANT1NE AND SUNDAY

The edict of Constantine the result of a previousgeneral observance of the day by Christians . . .191-194

CHAPTER XII— Sect. 80. AN OBJECTION CONSIDERED

Could Sunday observance properly have arisen after the death of Christ 195-199

CHAPTER XIII— Sect. 81-87. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST HISTORIANS

Andrews. Morer. Domville. Cox. Diet, of National Biographv. The Book .of Sports. King James I. King Charles I. Ency. Brit. Interna-

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tional. Laud. Ency. Brit, New American Cy. Peter Heylin. New American Cy. M'Clintock & Strong. International. S chaff -Herzog Eacy. Diet, of National Biography. Jeremy Taylor. Johnson's Universal Cy. White. Andrews. Ency. Brit. These alledged friends of Sunday trom whom Sabbatarians quote, were in fact bitter enemies of Sunday sacredness 200- 214