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71681 In Defense of the Faith, p. 193.6 (William Henry Branson)
“Question. Does the Scripture anywhere command the Sunday to be kept for the Sabbath?
71682 In Defense of the Faith, p. 193.7 (William Henry Branson)
“Answer. The Scripture commands us to hear the church, ... but the Scripture does not in particular mention this change of the Sabbath.”
71683 In Defense of the Faith, p. 194.2 (William Henry Branson)
… counterfeit Sabbath, which is no Sabbath at all, since it rests solely on the traditions of that church, and not in any sense upon the Word of God.
71684 In Defense of the Faith, p. 195.4 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the seventh …
71685 In Defense of the Faith, p. 195.5 (William Henry Branson)
… this Sabbath question, in this aspect of it, is the gravest and most perplexing question connected with Christian institutions which at present claims …
71686 In Defense of the Faith, p. 196.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath question, discussing it in some of its various aspects, freeing it from its false glosses, never alluded to any transference of the day; also, that …
71687 In Defense of the Faith, p. 196.3 (William Henry Branson)
“The Roman Church had totally apostatized. It reversed the fourth commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God’s word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday.”— History of the Christian Church, pp. 417, 418.
71688 In Defense of the Faith, p. 196.4 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath to Sunday is a “mark,” or sign, of her power in religious matters, it is necessary for the reader only to review so me of the quotations from Catholic …
71689 In Defense of the Faith, p. 197.2 (William Henry Branson)
“Answer. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday.”— Abridgment of Christian Doctrine, p. 58.
71690 In Defense of the Faith, p. 197.3 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath is definitely set forth a “mark of authority.” The “act” is a mark of her ecclesiastical power. Her power to command feasts, etc., proved by what she did …
71691 In Defense of the Faith, p. 197.4 (William Henry Branson)
Mr. Canright in his defense of a Sunday Sabbath wrote:
71692 In Defense of the Faith, p. 199 (William Henry Branson)
Chapter 10 — The Sabbath on a Round World
71693 In Defense of the Faith, p. 199.1 (William Henry Branson)
Mr. Canright the Baptist raises the old objection to the seventh-day Sabbath, that it cannot possibly be kept on a round world. Concerning this, he says:
71694 In Defense of the Faith, p. 199.2 (William Henry Branson)
… keeping Sabbath! Come even nearer home than that. The sun sets about three hours later in California than it does in Maine. So when the Seventh-day Adventists …
71695 In Defense of the Faith, p. 199.3 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, says Mr. Canright. Strange that God should have made a Sabbath for a world which He knew to be round, isn’t it? But there is a still stranger thing. That …
71696 In Defense of the Faith, p. 200.4 (William Henry Branson)
He explains that the difficulty about keeping the Sabbath is the existence of a “day line,” and that this jumps about so from place to place that “there is no possible means of fixing the day of the original Sabbath.”— Ibid ., p. 184.
71697 In Defense of the Faith, p. 201.3 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath could be kept in all parts of the world at the same moment of time. They may be illiterate, as Mr. Canright tries to make them appear, but their ignorance …
71698 In Defense of the Faith, p. 202.1 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath, He made it for a round world, and made the sun “to rule the day.” Genesis 1:16. Therefore, as an obedient child of God, it is my duty to keep the day when in …
71699 In Defense of the Faith, p. 202.2 (William Henry Branson)
… the Sabbath because the world is round, or for any other reason. Sabbath keepers are in no difficulty on this point. The difficulty, when it arises, is always …
71700 In Defense of the Faith, p. 203.4 (William Henry Branson)
… weekly Sabbath are never raised, except as an excuse for not obeying the fourth commandment just as it reads, ‘The seventh day is the Sabbath.’ Nobody has any …