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1241 In Defense of the Faith, p. 163.1 (William Henry Branson)

Let us carefully note Mr. Canright’s statement already quoted:

1242 In Defense of the Faith, p. 163.4 (William Henry Branson)

… Mr. Canright’s witnesses have come on the stand a few centuries late, and their testimony cannot be admitted as evidence by the true disciple of Christ.

1243 In Defense of the Faith, p. 171.1 (William Henry Branson)

… , Mr. Canright’s argument to the contrary notwithstanding. Thus his law, instead of commanding rest upon “the Lord’s day,” commands it “on the venerable day of …

1244 In Defense of the Faith, p. 171.2 (William Henry Branson)

… , Mr. Canright makes a, long, labored effort to prove that Constantine had become a Christian convert some years before the promulgation of this famous Sunday …

1245 In Defense of the Faith, p. 172.1 (William Henry Branson)

Mr. Canright admits that when Constantine made his famous Sunday law, he was still ordering that sacrifices be made to pagan gods, and that he had pagan rites …

1246 In Defense of the Faith, p. 173.5 (William Henry Branson)

… Mr. Canright, was still sacrificing to heathen deities, a suitable founder of the Christian religion? Was he among the prophets called of God to deliver His …

1247 In Defense of the Faith, p. 174.1 (William Henry Branson)

… , Mr. Canright resorts to the edict of a half Christian, half pagan emperor, of the fourth century. The Sabbath was given at creation, spoken by God on Sinai, observed …

1248 In Defense of the Faith, p. 174.2 (William Henry Branson)

… Mr. Canright’s Lord’s day argument is built upon a sandy foundation.

1249 In Defense of the Faith, p. 175.1 (William Henry Branson)

… Mr. Canright’s declaration that the pagans did not regard Sunday as a festival on which they worshiped the sun-god. The first day of the week as known throughout …

1250 In Defense of the Faith, p. 177.3 (William Henry Branson)

On this point Mr. Canright, as an Adventist writing in 1885, before he had renounced his faith in the Bible Sabbath, truly said:

1251 In Defense of the Faith, p. 178.3 (William Henry Branson)

… . M. Canright, Tabernacle Lectures, Lecture Ten, pp. 76-83.

1252 In Defense of the Faith, p. 179.3 (William Henry Branson)

… Elder Canright’s Attacks on Seventh day Adventists (1895), pp. 148, 149.

1253 In Defense of the Faith, p. 181.2 (William Henry Branson)

Mr. Canright the Baptist says:

1254 In Defense of the Faith, p. 182.1 (William Henry Branson)

In order to get over this point, Mr. Canright is forced to admit that there were those who were still keeping the Sabbath, but he brands them as heretics, and tries to make it appear that they were a small minority. (See The Lord’s Day, p. 217.)

1255 In Defense of the Faith, p. 182.2 (William Henry Branson)

… Mr. Canright himself that the Sabbath observers were the real heretics and were in the minority. We have already furnished abundant proof that the Sabbath …

1256 In Defense of the Faith, p. 186.5 (William Henry Branson)

… ? Mr. Canright scoffs at the idea, and tauntingly asks, Which pope? We reply that the actions of any council or any member of councils could not have established …

1257 In Defense of the Faith, p. 190.10 (William Henry Branson)

… Mr. Canright’s challenge to Seventh-day Adventists that the popes did not change the Sabbath is effectually answered.

1258 In Defense of the Faith, p. 197.4 (William Henry Branson)

Mr. Canright in his defense of a Sunday Sabbath wrote:

1259 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:

1260 In Defense of the Faith, p. 199.3 (William Henry Branson)

… 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 is, that this very …