“It is certain that our Lord when on earth did observe Saturday, and did not observe Sunday.” “If they are consistent, as I have said, they must keep Saturday, not Sunday, as the day of rest.”—“Sacerdotalism,” Longman Company.
Sir William Domville: “Centuries of the Christian era passed away before the Sunday was observed by the Christian church as a Sabbath.”—“Examination of Six Texts,” chap. 8, page 291.
Writers Of Other Churches
Bishop Grimelund, of Norway (Lutheran): “The Christians in the ancient church very soon distinguished the first day of the week, Sunday; however, not as a sabbath, but as an assembly day of the church, to study the Word of God together.”—“Geschichte des Sonntags,” page 60.
Dr. R. W. Dale (British Congregationalist): “It is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath.... The Sabbath was founded on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the observance of Sunday.... There is not a single line in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday.”—“The Ten Commandments,” Hodder and Stoughton, pages 106, 107.
Dr. Lyman Abbott (American Congregationalist): “The current notion that Christ and His apostles authoritatively substituted the first day for the seventh, is absolutely without any authority in the New Testament.”—Christian Union, June 26, 1890.
Dr. Edward T. Hiscock (Baptist): “There was and is a commandment to ‘keep holy the Sabbath day,’ but that Sabbath was not Sunday. It will, however, be readily said, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week.... Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament—absolutely not.”—The New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893.
Dr. D. H. Lucas (Disciple): “There is no direct Scriptural authority for designating the first day the Lord's day.”—Christian Oracle, Jan. 23, 1890.
Cardinal Gibbons (Roman Catholic): “You may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday.”—“Faith of Our Fathers,” edition 1892, page 111.
Prize Essay of American Sunday-school Union: “Up to the time of Christ's death, no change had been made in the day.... So far as the record shows, they [the apostles] did not give any explicit command enjoining the abandonment of the seventh-day Sabbath, and its observance on the first day of the week.”—“Lord's Day,” pages 185, 186.