Rome's Challenge - Why Do Protestants Keep Sunday

Pieces From Rome's Challenge, Four Editorials From The Catholic Mirror
• "In the old testament, reference is made 126 times to The Sabbath, and all these text conspire harmoniously in voicing the will of God commanded the Seventh Day to be kept, because god Himself first kept it, making it obligatory on ALL as 'a perpetual covenant.' Nor can we imagine any one foolhardly enough to question the identity of Saturday with the Sabbath or Seveth Day, seeing that the people of Iserael have been keeping the Saturday from the giving of the Law, A.M. 2514 to A.D. 1893, a period of 3383 years..." [ 1: note the calendar units are different from today's standard; 2: in 1992, it is 3,482 years]
• "Exmaining the new testament from cover to cover, critically, we find the Sabbath referred to 61 times. We find, too, that the Savior invariably selected the Sabbath (Saturday) to teach in the synagogues and work miracles. The 4 Gospels refer to the Sabbath (Saturday) 51 times.."
• "...the Redeemer refers to Himself as 'The Lord of the Sabbath'..." He never once hinted at a desire to change it... thus the Sabbath (Saturday) from Genesis to Revelation.
• "Hence the conclusion is inevitable... that of those who follow the Bible as their guide, the Iseralites and Severth-Day Adventists have the exclusive weight of evidence on their side, whilst the Biblical Protestant Has Not A Word In Self-Defense For His Substitution Of Sunday For Saturday..."
• "...Whilst the pharisees of old kept the True Sabbath, our modern pharisees HAVE NEVER ONCE IN THEIR LIVES KEPT THE TRUE SABBATH which their divine master kept to his dying day, and which his apostles kept, after his example, for 30 years afterward, according to sacred record.."
• "The Bible and the Sabbath constitue the watchword of Protestantism; But We Have Demonstrated That It Is The Bible Against Their Sabbath... We Have Shown That No Greater Contradition Ever Existed That Their Theory Than Their Theory And Practice! We have proved that neither their Biblical ancestors nor themselves have ever kept One Sabbath Day in their lives..."
Now remember, this was from the pen of an extremely knowledgeable Catholic Theologian -- and he told it exactly like it is... Want more? Read on.
• "The Catholic Church for over 1,000 years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday..."
• "We say by virtue of her divine mission, because he who called himself the 'Lord of The Sabbath' endowed her with his own power to teach, 'He That hearth You, hearth Me'... and promised to be with her to the end of the world. She holds her charter from him -- a charter as INFALLIBLE and PERPETUAL..."
"The Protestant world at its birth Found The Christian Sabbath (Sunday) Too Strongly Entrenched To Run Counter To Its Existence... It was therefore placed under the necessity of ACQUESCING in the arrangement, thus implying the Church's Right To Change The Day, for over 300 years.."
• "The Iseralites And Seventh-Day Adventists Are Witnesses Of This Weekly Desecration of The Day Named By God So Repeatedly..."
• "The history of the world cannot present a more stupid, self-stulifying specimen of dereliction of principle than this... that immense concourse of Bible Christians, the Methodists, have declared that the Sabbath has Never Been Abrogates, whilst the followers of the Church of England, together with her daughter, the Episcopal Church of the United States, are commited by the 20th article of religion that the church CANNOT LAWFULLY ORDAIN ANYTHING, 'Contrary To God's Written Word,' yet God's Written Word enjoins his worship to be observed on Saturday absolutely, repeatedly, and most EMPHATICALLY... all Biblical sects occupy the same self-stultifying position which no explaination can modify, much less justify."
• "They have IGNORED and CONDEMNED their teacher, the Bible... and they have adopted a day kept by the Catholic Church.. the 'Mother of Aboninations'..."
• "...their Pretense for leaving the bosom of the Catholic Church was for Apostasy from the truth As Taught In The Written Word. They adopted the Written Word as their sole teacher, which they had no sooned done than they Abandoned It, as these articles have abundantly proved..."
Shocking, isn't it. Rome's Challenege to all Protestants. By the way, the prophet ISAIAH clealy foretold that the Sabbath would be falsely done away with, but then reestablished...!"
The USA Made A Sunday-Law?!?
In 1893 the United States Congress and the Supreme Court, delcaring our country to be "a Christian Nation," passed the orders that the World's Fair was to be C L O S E D O N S U N D A Y S ...
The Internation Religious Liberty Association of the General Conference Of The Severth-Day Adventist Church published a 21-page brochure which sited the fact that: It Is Improper For Our Government To Legislate Public Behavior In Regard To "Religious" Matters... .. It's called "Separation Of Church And State"
See, if people didn't want to attend the World's Fair on "Sunday," they could stay home! But by passing a Law to Stop All From Attending, that's getting very close to Legislating Religion.
Remember how law works, if you give someone the right to prevent you from doing something you are giving them jurisdiction of that matter. A reversal could come about enforcing you to do something. A good cited example is to create a law to "prevent abortions". While you may or not agree with abortion issues, handing that right to the government also gives them the right in the future to insit that an aborton be had. Our law system isn't perfect.
The Adventists outlines their belief in worshiping the Lord on His Saturday Sabbath Day, via "free will," and the Catholic Mirror wrote their articles to VERIFY that "Saturday" is the Bible Sabbath Day.
The Catholic Mirror was the official organ of Cardinal Gibbons and the Papacy in America. A 32-page pamphlet called Rome's Challenge reprints four editorials back in September 2, 9, 16, and 23 of 1893.
Tradition, What Does Christ Say About It?
"Why do ye also transgress the commendment of God by your TRADITION?" -- Jesus, MATT 15:3
The Jews had enacted a rule that let a person by-pass leaving his possessions to his parents in case of his dying, which ran contrary to the commandment to "honor thy father and thy mother."
"...thus have ye made the commandment of God of NONE EFFECT by your TRADITION" -- Matt 15:6
Clearly, the Lord is NOT pleased with us following the "traditions" of men in place of His commandments.
"But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men," said the Lord in Matthew 15:9. But this is exactly what the Catholic Church has perpetrated. And when Protestants endorse worshipping on "Sundays," they SUPPORT THE ROMAN CHURCH'S "TRADTIONS"...!
Tradition, The Council of Trent, and a Great Debate Lost
It was at the Council of Trent that the Catholic Church formulated its permanent fundamentals of the Catholic Creed -- these series of sessions were held to consider the questions that had been raised and forced upon the attention of Europe by the PROTESTANT REFORMERS: The reformers had charged that the Catholic Church has APOSTATIZED from the truth "as contained in the written word." Thus was the proclaimed platform of the reformation and of protestantism: The Written Word, "The Bible and Only The Bible Only," these were their constant watchwords...
...but the Catcholics insisted on "the scripture and TRADTION," the Bible as INTERPRETED BY THE CHURCH and the reasoning of its "holy fathers," the Popes and Bishops, etc.. of earlier generations...
Incidently, these meetings lasted for over 27 years. The reason for their first recess was due to a plague in Trent, then the Council was frequently adjourned when they could not reach agreement.
There was a strong party even of the Catholics within the council who were in favor of abandoning "tradition" and adopting THE SCRIPTURES ONLY as the standard of authority. The view was so decidedly held in the debates that the Pope's legates actually wrote to him that there was "a strong tendency to set aside tradition altogether and to make scripture the sole standard of appeal." But to do this would manifestly be a big step towards justifying the clains of the protestants...
By this crisis there was develoepd within the ultra-catholic portion of the council the task of convincing the others that "scripture and TRADITION" were the only sure ground to stand upon -- if this could be done, the council could be convinced to issue a decree CONDEMING THE REFORMATION, otherwise not...
The question was debated day adter day, until the council was brought to a standstill. finally, after a long and intensive debate, the ARCHBISHOP OF REGGIO introduced into the council substancially the following argument:
The PROTESTANTS claim to stand upon "the written word only" -- the profess to hold the SCRIPTURE ALONE as the standard point fo faith. The justify their revolt by the plea that the church has apostatized from the written word and follows TRADITION. Now the protestants' claim, that they stand upon the written word only, IS NOT TRUE. Their profession of hodling "the scripture alone as the standard of faith" is FALSE!
THE PROOF: The written word explictly enjoins the observance of the Seventh Day as the Sabbath. They do NOT observe the seventh day, but REJECT IT! If they do truely hold the scriptures alone as their standard, they would be observing the Seventh Day as in enjoined in the scripture throughout! Yet they now only REJECT THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH ENJOINED IN THE WRITTEN WORD, but they have adopted and do practice the observance of SUNDAY, for which they have ONLY THE TRADITION OF THE CHURCH... Consequently the claim of "scripture alone as the standard" FAILS, and the doctrine of "scripture and TRADITION" as essential, is FULLY ESTABLISHED, THE PROTESTANTS THEMSELVES BEING THE JUDGES!
By the observation the archbishop scored a telling point, for the protestants' OWN STATES OF FAITH (the augsburg confession of 1530) had CLEARLY ADMITTED that "the observation of the Lord's Day" HAD BEEN APPOINTED BY THE CHURCH ONLY.
The arguement was hailed in the council as PURE INSPIRATION -- the party for "scripture alone" SURRENDERED... and the council at once UNANIMOUSLY CONDEMNED PROTESTANTISM and THE WHOLE REFORMATION AS ONLY AN UNWARRANTED REVOLT FROM THE COMMUNION AND AUTHORITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH...
(This information is from the Rome's Challenge pamphlet, pages 25-27.)
Thus it was the INCONSISTENCY of the protestant practice with "protestant profession" that gave to the Catholic Church her long-sought and anxiously desired ground upon which to condemn protestantism and the whole reformation movement... All because the Protestants rejected the Bible's Holy seventh-Day Sabbath.
...so the Catholics won out, and the Protestants failed in winning an important victory for the Lord. "Tradition" was to continue.
Plain Statements

"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify." James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 edition), p. 72-73 (16th Edition, p 111; 88th Edition, p. 89).

"For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the [Roman Catholic] church outside the Bible." Catholic Virginian, October 3, 1947, p. 9, article "To Tell You the Truth."

Who Made Sunday Holy?

"Written by the finger of God on two tables of stone, this Divine code (ten commandments) was received from the Almighty by Moses amid the thunders of Mount Sinai...Christ resumed these Commandments in the double precept of charity--love of God and of the neighbour; He proclaimed them as binding under the New Law in Matthew 19 and in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5)....The (Catholic) Church, on the other hand, after changing the day of rest from the Jewish Sabbath, or seventh day of the week, to the first, made the Third Commandment refer to Sunday as the day to be kept holy as the Lord's Day....He (God) claims one day out of the seven as a memorial to Himself, and this must be kept holy..." The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4, "The Ten Commandments", 1908 edition by Robert Appleton Company; and 1999 On-line edition by Kevin Knight, Imprimatur, John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

"Question: How prove you that the church had power to command feasts and holydays?
"Answer: By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church.
"Question: Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?
"Answer: Had she not such power, she could not a done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; -she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day of the week, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority." Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism On the Obedience Due to the Church, 3rd edition, Chapter 2, p. 174 (Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York).

"Perhaps the boldest thing, the most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. ‘The day of the Lord’ was chosen, not from any direction noted in the Scriptures, but from the Church's sense of its own power....People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically...keep Saturday holy." St. Catherine Church Sentinel, Algonac, Michigan, May 21, 1995.

"Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday....Now the Church...instituted, by God's authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have, therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday." Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About, 1927 edition, p. 136.

"Question - Which is the Sabbath day?
"Answer - Saturday is the Sabbath day.
"Question - Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
"Answer - We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday." Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Convert's Catechism of Catholic Doctrine, p. 50, 3rd edition, 1957.

"Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day - Saturday - for Sunday, the first day? I answer yes. Did Christ change the day'? I answer no!"
"Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons." James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Md. (1877-1921), in a signed letter.

"Q.- How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
"A.- By the very act of changing Sabbath into Sunday which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same Church.
"Q.-How prove you that?
"A.-Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the Church's power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin: and by not keeping the rest by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power." An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine, composed by Henry Tuberville, p. 58.

"Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as the day of worship in the New Law, that He Himself has explicitly substituted the Sunday for the Sabbath. But this theory is now entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days. The Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy days." John Laux, A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies, 1936 edition, vol. 1, p. 51.

"Question. What warrant have you for keeping Sunday preferably to the ancient sabbath which was Saturday?
"Answer. We have for it the authority of the Catholic church and apostolic tradition.
"Question. Does the Scripture anywhere command the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath?
"Answer. The Scripture commands us to hear the church (St.Matt.18:17; St. Luke 10:16), and to hold fast the traditions of the apostles. 2 Thess 2:15. But the Scripture does not in particular mention this change of the sabbath.
"St John speaks of the Lord's day (Rev 1:10) but he does not tell us what day of the week that was, much less does he tell us what day was to take the place of the Sabbath ordained in the commandments. St.Luke speaks of the disciples meeting together to break bread on the first day of the week. Acts 20:7. And St. paul (1 Cor.16:2) orders that on the first day of the week the Corinthians should lay in store what they designated to bestow in charity on the faithful in Judea: but neither the one or the other tells us that this first day of the week was to be henceforth a day of worship, and the Christian Sabbath; so that truly the best authority we have for this ancient custom is the testimony of the church. And therefore those who pretend to be such religious observers of Sunday, whilst they take no notice of other festivals ordained by the same church authority, show that they act more by humor, than by religion; since Sundays and holidays all stand upon the same foundation, namely the ordinance of the church." Catholic Christian Instructed, 17th edition, p. 272-273.

"Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the (Roman catholic) Church, has no good reasons for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath." John Gilmary Shea, American Catholic Quarterly Review, January, 1883.

"The Catholic church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday....The Protestant World at its birth found the Christian Sabbath too strongly entrenched to run counter to its existence; it was therefore placed under the necessity of acquiescing in the arrangement, thus implying the (Catholic) Church's right to change the day, for over three hundred years. The Christian Sabbath is therefore to this day, the acknowledged offspring of the Catholic Church as spouse of the Holy Ghost, without a word of remonstrance from the Protestant World." James Cardinal Gibbons in the Catholic Mirror, September 23, 1983.
Whose Day of Worship is Sunday?

"They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so. They have no other reason....The observance of Sunday thus comes to be an ecclesiastical law entirely distinct from the divine law of Sabbath observance....The author of the Sunday law...is the Catholic Church." Ecclesiastical Review, February, 1914.

"The Sunday...is purely a creation of the Catholic Church." American Catholic Quarterly Review, January, 1883.

"Sunday...is the law of the Catholic Church alone..." American Sentinel (Catholic), June, 1893.

"Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claim to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles....From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic Press, Sydney, Australia, August, 1900.

"It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church." Priest Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903.

Who Are We Reverencing, Bowing and Paying Homage to
by Keeping Sunday Holy?

"The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed...the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority." Canon and Tradition, p. 263.

"From this we may understand how great is the authority of the church in interpreting or explaining to us the commandments of God - an authority which is acknowledged by the universal practice of the whole Christian world, even of those sects which profess to take the holy Scriptures as their sole rule of faith, since they observe as the day of rest not the seventh day of the week demanded by the Bible, but the first day. Which we know is to be kept holy, only from the tradition and teaching of the Catholic church." Henry Gibson, Catechism Made Easy, # 2, 9th edition, vol. 1, p. 341-342.

"It was the Catholic church which...has transferred this rest to Sunday in remembrance of the resurrection of our Lord. Therefore the observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the (Catholic) church." Monsignor Louis Segur, Plain Talk About the Protestantism of Today, p. 213.

"Sunday is our mark or authority...the church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact." Catholic Record of London, Ontario, September 1,1923.

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change (Saturday Sabbath to Sunday) was her act...And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical authority in religious things." H.F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons.

"I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church alone. The Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says: ‘No. By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the week.’ And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church." father T. Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, February 18, 1884, printed in History of the Sabbath, p. 802.

"Protestants...accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change...But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that...In observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope." Our Sunday Visitor, February 15, 1950.

Conclusion, and the Great Challenge!

"The Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for observing Sunday." The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, p. 4.

"Sunday is founded, not of scripture, but on tradition, and is distinctly a Catholic institution. As there is no scripture for the transfer of the day of rest from the last to the first day of the week, Protestants ought to keep their Sabbath on Saturday and thus leave Catholics in full possession of Sunday." Catholic Record, September 17, 1893.

"Regarding the change from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish to draw your attention to the facts:
"1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of faith and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.
"2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church, instituted by Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws....
"It is always somewhat laughable, to see the Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is nothing in their Bible." Peter R. Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Magazine, USA (1975),Chicago, Illinois, "Under the blessing of the Pope Pius XI"

"I am going to propose a very plain and serious question to those who follow ‘the Bible and the Bible only’ to give their most earnest attention. It is this: Why don’t you keep holy the Sabbath day?...
"The command of the Almighty God stands clearly written in the Bible in these words: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work.’ Exodus 20:8-10....
"You will answer me, perhaps, that you do keep the Sabbath; for that you abstain from all worldly business and diligently go to church, and say your prayers, and read your Bible at home every Sunday of your lives....
"But Sunday is not the Sabbath day. Sunday is the first day of the week: the Sabbath day is the seventh day of the week. Almighty God did not give a commandment that men should keep holy one day in seven; but He named His own day, and said distinctly: ‘Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day’; and He assigned a reason for choosing this day rather than any other - a reason which belongs only to the seventh day of the week, and cannot be applied to the rest. He says, ‘For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it’, Exodus 20:11, Genesis 2:1-3. Almighty God ordered that all men should rest from their labor on the seventh day, because He too had rested on that day: He did not rest on Sunday, but on Saturday. On Sunday, which is the first day of the week, He began the work of creation; He did not finish it. It was on Saturday that He ‘ended His work which he had made: and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.’ Genesis 2:2-3....
"Nothing can be more plain and easy to understand than all this; there is nobody who attempts to deny it. It is acknowledged by everybody that the day which Almighty God appointed to be kept holy was Saturday, not Sunday. Why do you then keep holy the Sunday and not Saturday?
"You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! But by whom? Who has the authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, ‘Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day’, who shall dare to say, ‘Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day: but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead?’ This is a most important question, which I know not how you answer....
"You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet, in so important a manner as the observance of one day in seven as the holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding. Who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles, if you really follow the Bible, and the Bible only you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered." Excerpts from "Why Don’t You Keep Holy the Sabbath Day?", pages 3-15 in The Clifton Tract, vol.4, published by the Roman Catholic Church about 1869.

"The arguments...are firmly grounded on the word of God, and having been closely studied with the Bible in hand, leave no escape for the conscientious Protestant except the abandonment of Sunday worship and the return to Saturday, commanded by their teacher, the Bible, or, unwilling to abandon the tradition of the Catholic Church, which enjoins the keeping of Sunday, and which they have accepted in direct opposition to their teacher, the Bible, consistently accept her (the Catholic Church) in all her teachings. Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicism and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible." James Cardinal Gibbons, in Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.