Quotes gathered in the book The Sabbath of God through the Centuries by J.F. Coltheart, 1954.

“But pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the Sabbath day.” Jesus, Matthew 24:20

Institution Of The Sabbath

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he made; and he rested on the seventh day from all 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 2:1-3

Jesus

“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.” Luke 4:16

“And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” Matthew 19:16-17

“But pray ye that your flight be not in winter, neither on the Sabbath day.” Matthew 24:20.

Jesus asked his disciples to pray that in the flight from the doomed city of Jerusalem they would not have to flee on the Sabbath day. This flight took place in 70 A.D. (40 years after the Cross).

His Followers

“And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment.” Luke 23:56

Paul

“And Paul, as his manner was went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures” Acts 17:2

Paul And Gentiles

“And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath. And the next Sabbath came almost the whole city together to hear the Word of God.” Acts 13:42, 44.

Here we find Gentiles in a Gentile city gathering on the Sabbath. It was not a synagogue meeting in verse 44, for it says almost the whole city came together, verse 42 says they asked to hear the message the “next Sabbath.”

John

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day.” Rev. 1:10 (Mark 2:28, Isa.58:13, Ex.20:10, Clearly show the Sabbath to be the Lord’s day).

Josephus

“There is not any city of the Grecians, nor any of the Barbarians, nor any nation whatsoever, whither our custom of resting on the seventh day hath not come!” M’Clatchie, “Notes and Queries on China and Japan” (edited by Dennys), Vol 4, Nos 7, 8, p.100.

Philo

Declares the seventh day to be a festival, not of this or of that city, but of the universe. M’Clatchie, “Notes and Queries,” Vol. 4, 99

“It is certain that the ancient Sabbath did remain and was observed (together with the celebration of the Lord’s day) by the Christians of the East Church, above three hundred years after our Saviour’s death.” – A Learned Treatise of the Sabbath, p. 77

Early Christians

“The primitive Christians had a great veneration for the Sabbath, and spent the day in devotion and sermons. And it is not to be doubted but they derived this practice from the Apostles themselves, as appears by several scriptures to the purpose.” “Dialogues on the Lord’s Day,” p. 189. London: 1701, By Dr. T.H. Morer (A Church of England divine).

“…The Sabbath was a strong tie which united them with the life of the whole people, and in keeping the Sabbath holy they followed not only the example but also the command of Jesus.” “Geschichte des Sonntags,” pp.13, 14

“The primitive Christians did keep the Sabbath of the Jews;…therefore the Christians, for a long time together, did keep their conventions upon the Sabbath, in which some portions of the law were read: and this continued till the time of the Laodicean council.” “The Whole Works” of Jeremy Taylor, Vol. IX,p. 416 (R. Heber’s Edition, Vol XII, p. 416).

Early Church

“It is certain that the ancient Sabbath did remain and was observed (together with the celebration of the Lord’s day) by the Christians of the East Church, above three hundred years after our Saviour’s death.” “A Learned Treatise of the Sabbath,” p. 77

Note: By the “Lord’s day” here the writer means Sunday and not the true Sabbath,” which the Bible says is the Sabbath. This quotation shows Sunday coming into use in the early centuries soon after the death of the Apostles. Paul the Apostle foretold a great “falling away” from the Truth that would take place soon after his death.

2nd Century Christians

“The Gentile Christians observed also the Sabbath,” Gieseler’s “Church History,” Vol.1, ch. 2, par. 30, 93.

2nd, 3rd, 4th Centuries

“From the apostles’ time until the council of Laodicea, which was about the year 364, the holy observance of the Jews’ Sabbath continued, as may be proved out of many authors: yea, notwithstanding the decree of the council against it.” “Sunday a Sabbath.” John Ley, p.163. London: 1640.

3rd Century

EGYPT (OXYRHYNCHUS PAPYRUS – 200-250 A.D.)

“Except ye make the Sabbath a real Sabbath [sabbatize the Sabbath, Greek], ye shall not see the father.” The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, pt. L, p.
3, Logion 2, verse 4-11 (London: Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898).

EARLY CHRISTIANS

“Thou shalt observe the Sabbath, on account of Him who ceased from His work of creation, but ceased not from His work of providence: it is a rest for meditation of the law, not for idleness of the hands.” The Anti-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7, p. 413. From Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, a document of the 3rd and 4th Centuries.

AFRICA (Alexandria) Origen

“After the festival of the unceasing sacrifice [the crucifixion] is put the second festival of the Sabbath, and it is fitting for whoever is righteous among the saints to keep also the festival of the Sabbath. There remained! therefore a sabbatismos, that is, a keeping of the Sabbath, to the people of God [Hebrews 4:9]. Homily on Numbers 23, par. 4, in Migne Patrologia Graeca, Vol. 12, cols. 749, 750.

PALESTINE TO INDIA (Church of the East)

As early as A. D. 225 there existed large bishoprics or conferences of the Church of the East (Sabbath-keeping) stretching from Palestina to India. Mingana, Early Spread of Christianity, Vol. 10, p. 460.

INDIA (Buddhist controversy, 220 A.D.)

The Kushan Dynasty of North India called a famous council of Bud-
dhist priests at Vaisalia to bring uniformity among the Buddhist monks
on the observance of their weekly Sabbath. Some had been so im-
pressed by the writings of the Old Testament that they had begun to
keep holy the Sabbath. Lloyd, The Creed of Half Japan, p. 23.

EARLY CHRISTIANS

“The seventh-day Sabbath was . . . solemnised by Christ, the Apostles,
and the primitive Christians, till the Laodicean Council did in a manner
quite abolish the observations of it.” Dissertation on the Lord’s Day,
pp. 33, 34, 44.

4th Century

ITALY AND EAST

“It was the practice generally of the Eastern Churches; and some
Churches of the west …. For in the Church of Millaine [Milan] ; … it
seemes the Saturday was held in a farre [fair] esteem . . . Not that the
Eastern Churches, or any of the rest which observed that day, were in-
clined to Iudaisme [Judaism] ; but that they came together on the Sab-
bath day, to worship Iesus [Jesus] Christ the Lord of the Sabbath.” His-
tory of the Sabbath (original spelling retained). Part 2, par. 5, pp. 73, 74 London: 1636. Dr. Heylyn.

ORIENT AND MOST OF WORLD

“The ancient Christians were very careful in the observation of Satur-
day, or the seventh day … It is plain that all the Oriental churches, and
the greatest part of the world, observed the Sabbath as a festival. . . .
Athanasius likewise tells us that they held religious assembles on the
Sabbath, not because they were infected with Judaism, but to worship
Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, Epiphanius says the same.” Antiquities
of the Christian Church. Vol. II, Book XX, chap. 3, Sec.l, 66.1137, 1138

ABYSSINIA

“In the last half of that century St. Ambrose of Milan stated officially
that the Abyssinian bishop, Museus, had ‘travelled almost everywhere
in the country of the Seres’ (China). For more than seventeen centuries
the Abyssinian Church continued to sanctify Saturday as the holy day
of the fourth commandment.” Ambrose, De Moribus, Brachmanorium Opera Omnia, 1132, found in Migne. Patrologia Latina, Vol. 17, pp. 1131-1132.

ARABIA, PERSIA, INDIA, CHINA

“Mingana proves that in 370 A.D. Abyssinian Christianity (a Sabbath-
keeping church) was so popular that its famous director, Musaeus, trav-
elled extensively in the East promoting the church in Arabia, Persia,
India and China.” Truth Triumphant, p. 308 (Footnote 27).

ITALY – Milan

“Ambrose, the celebrated bishop of Milan, said that when he was in
Milan he observed Saturday, but when in Rome observed Sunday. This
gave rise to the proverb, ‘When you are in Rome, do as Rome does’.”
Heylyn, The History of the Sabbath (1612).

SPAIN – Council Elvira (A.D. 305)

Canon 26 of the Council of Elvira reveals that the Church of Spain at
that time kept Saturday, the seventh day. “As to fasting every Sabbath:
Resolved, that the error be corrected of fasting every Sabbath.” This
resolution of the council is in direct opposition to the policy the church
at Rome had inaugurated, that of commanding Sabbath as a fast day in
order to humiliate it and make it repugnant to the people.

SPAIN

It is a point of further interest to note that in northeastern Spain near
the city of Barcelona is a city called Sabadell, in a district originally in-
habited, by a people called both “Valdenses” and “Sabbatati.”

PERSIA – A.D. 335-375 (40 years persecution under Shapur II)

The popular complaint against the Christians – “They despise our sun
god, they have divine services on Saturday, they desecrate the sacred
earth by burying their dead in it.” Truth Triumphant, p. 170.

PERSIA -A.D. 335-375

“They despise our sun god. Did not Zoroaster, the sainted founder of
our divine beliefs, institute Sunday one thousand years ago in honour
of the sun and supplant the Sabbath of the Old Testament. Yet these
Christians have divine services on Saturday.” O’Leary, The Syriac
Church and Fathers, pp. 83, 84.

COUNCIL OF LAODICEA – A.D. 365

“Canon 16 – On Saturday the Gospels and other portions of the Scrip-
ture shall be read aloud.”

“Canon 29 – Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but
shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honor,
and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day.”
Hefele’s Councils, Vol. 2, b. 6.

5th Century

THE WORLD

“For although almost all Churches throughout the world celebrate the
sacred mysteries [the Lord’s Supper] on the Sabbath of every week, yet
the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient
tradition, refuse to do this.”

The footnote which accompanies the foregoing quotation explains the
use of the word “Sabbath.” It says:

“That is, upon the Saturday. It should be observed, that Sunday is never
called ‘the Sabbath’ by the ancient Fathers and historians.” Socrates,
Ecclesiastical History, Book 5, chap. 22, p. 289.

CONSTANTINOPLE

“The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble to-
gether on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which
custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria.” Socrates, Ecclesi-
astical History, Book 7, chap. 19.

THE WORLD – Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (North Africa)

Augustine shows here that the Sabbath was observed in his day “in the
greater part of the Christian world,” and his testimony in this respect is
all the more valuable because he himself was an earnest and consistent
Sunday-keeper. See Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1st Series, Vol. 1,
pp. 353, 354.

POPE INNOCENT (402-417)

Pope Sylvester (314-335) was the first to order the churches to fast on
Saturday, and Pope Innocent (402-417) made it a binding law in the
churches that obeyed him. (In order to bring the Sabbath into disfa-
vour.) “Innocentius did ordaine the Saturday or Sabbath to be always
fasted.” Dr. Peter Heylyn, History of the Sabbath, Part 2, ch. 2, p. 44.

5TH CENTURY CHRISTIANS

Down even to the fifth century the observance of the Jewish Sabbath
was continued in the Christian church. Ancient Christianity Exempli-
fied, Lyman Coleman, ch. 26, sec .2, p. 527.

FRANCE

“Wherefore, except Vespers and Noctums, there are no public services
among them in the day except on Saturday [Sabbath] and Sunday.”
John Cassian, a French monk, Instituttes, Book 3, ch. 2.

5TH CENTURY CHRISTIANS

In Jerome’s day (420 A.D.) the devoutest Christians did ordinary work
on Sunday. Treatise of the Sabbath Day, by Dr. White, Lord Bishop of
Ely, p. 219.

AFRICA

“Augustine deplored the fact that in two neighbouring churches in
Africa one observes the seventh-day Sabbath, another fasted on it.” Dr.
Peter Heylyn, The History of the Sabbath, p. 416.

SPAIN (400A.D.)

“Ambrose sanctified the seventh day as the Sabbath (as he himself
says). Ambrose had great influence in Spain, which was also observing
the Saturday Sabbath.” Truth Triumphant, p. 68.

SIDONIUS (speaking of King Theodoric of the Goths, A. D. 454-
526)

“It is a fact that it was formerly the custom in the East to keep the Sab-
bath in the same manner as the Lord’s day and to hold sacred assem-
blies: while on the other hand, the people of the West, contending for
the Lord’s day have neglected the celebration of the Sabbath.” Apolli-
naris Sidonii Epistolae, lib. 1,2; Migne, 57.

CHURCH OF THE EAST

“Mingana proves that in 410 Isaac, supreme director of the Church of
the East, held a world council, stimulated, some think, by the trip of
Musaeus, attended by eastern delegates from forty grand metropolitan
divisions. In 41 1 he appointed a metropolitan director for China. These
churches were sanctifying the seventh day.”

EGYPT

“There are several cities and villages in Egypt where, contrary to the
usage established elsewhere, the people meet together on Sabbath eve-
nings, and, although they have dined previously, partake of the myster-
ies.” Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History, Book 7, ch. 19.

6th Century

SCOTTISH CHURCH

“In this latter instance they seemed to have followed a custom of which
we find traces in the early monastic church of Ireland by which they
held Saturday to be the Sabbath on which they rested from all their la-
bours.” W.T. Skene, Adamnan Life of St. Columba, 1874, p. 96.

SCOTLAND, IRELAND

“We seem to see here an allusion to the custom, observed in the early
monastic Church of Ireland, of keeping the day of rest on Saturday, or
the Sabbath.” History of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Vol. 1, p. 86,
by Catholic historian Bellisheim.

SCOTLAND – Columba

“Having continued his labours in Scotland thirty-four years, he clearly
and openly foretold his death, and on Saturday, the ninth of June, said
to his disciple Diermit: This day is called the Sabbath, that is, the rest
day, and such will it truly be to me; for it will put an end to my la-
bours.’” Butler’s Lives of the Saints, Vol. 1 , A.D. 597, art. “St. Colum-
ba,” p. 762.

COLUMBA (re: Dr. Butler’s description of his death).

The editor of the best biography of Columba says in a footnote: “Our
Saturday. The custom to call the Lord’s day Sabbath did not commence
until a thousand years later.” Adamnan ’s Life of Columba (Dublin, 1857), p. 230.

SCOTLAND AND IRELAND

Professor James C. Moffatt, D.D., Professor of Church History at
Princeton says:

“It seems to have been customary in the Celtic Churches of early times,
in Ireland as well as Scotland, to keep Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, as
a day of rest from labour. They obeyed the fourth commandment liter-
ally upon the seventh day of the week.” The Church in Scotland, p. 140

SCOTLAND AND IRELAND

“The Celts used a Latin Bible unlike the Vulgate (R.C.) and kept Satur-
day as a day of rest, with special religious services on Sunday.” Flick,
The Rise of the Mediaeval Church, p. 237.

ROME (Pope Gregory I, A.D. 590-604)

Gregory I wrote against “Roman citizens [who] forbid any work being
done on the Sabbath day.” Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second
Series, Vol. XIII, p. 13, epist. 1.

“Gregory, bishop by the grace of God to his well-beloved sons, the
Roman citizens: It has come to me that certain men of perverse spirit
have disseminated among you things depraved and opposed to the holy
faith, so that they forbid anything to be done on the day of the Sabbath.
What shall I call them except preachers of anti-Christ?” Epistles, b.
13:1.

Declared that when anti-Christ should come he would keep Saturday as
the Sabbath. Epistles of Gregory I, b. 13, epist.l , found in Nicene and
Post-Nicene Fathers.

“Moreover, this same Pope Gregory had issued an official pronounce-
ment against a section of the city of Rome itself because the Christian
believers there rested and worshipped on the Sabbath.” Same Refer-
ence.

8th Century

COUNCIL OF FRIAUL, ITALY – A.D. 791 (Canon 13)

“We command all Christians to observe the Lord’s day to be held not in
honour of the past Sabbath, but on account of that holy night of the
first of the week called the Lord’s day. When speaking of that Sabbath
which the Jews observe, the last day of the week, and which also our
peasants observe . . Mansi, 13, 851.

PERSIA AND MESOPOTAMIA

The hills of Persia and the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates re-
echoed their songs of praise. They reaped their harvests and paid their
tithes. They repaired to their churches on the Sabbath day for the wor-
ship of God. Realencyclopaedie fur Protestantische and Krche, art.
“Nestorianer”; also Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, Vol. 2, p. 409.

INDIA, CHINA, PERSIA, Etc.

“Widespread and enduring was the observance of the seventh-day Sab-
bath among the believers of the Church of the East and the St. Thomas
Christians of India, who never were connected with Rome. It also was
maintained among those bodies which broke off from Rome after the
Council of Chalcedon namely, the Abyssinians, the Jacobites, the Ma-
ronites, and the Armenians.” Schaff-Herzog, The New Encyclopaedia
of Religious Knowledge, art. “Nestorians”; also Realencyclopaedie fur
Protestantische Theologie und Kirche, art. “Nestorianer.”

COUNCIL OF LIFTINAE, BELGIUM – A.D. 745 (attended by
Boniface)

“The third allocution of this council warns against the observance of
the Sabbath, referring to the decree of the council of Loadicea.” Dr.
Hefele, Conciliengesch, 3, 512, sec. 362.

CHINA -A.D. 781

In A. D. 781 the famous China Monument was inscribed in marble to
tell of the growth of Christianity in China at that time. The inscription,
consisting of 763 words, was unearthed in 1625 near the city of Chan-
gan and now stands in the “Forest of Tablets,” Changan. The following
extract from the stone shows that the Sabbath was observed:

“On the seventh day we offer sacrifices, after having purified our
hearts, and received absolution for our sins. This religion, so perfect
and so excellent, is difficult to name, but it enlightens darkness by its
brilliant precepts.” Christianity in China, M 1 Abbe Hue, Vol. 1 , ch. 2,
pp. 48, 49.

9th Century

BULGARIA

“Bulgaria in the early season of its evangelization had been taught that
no work should be performed on the Sabbath.” Responsa Nicolai Papae
I and Con-Consulta Bulgarorum, Responsum 10, found in Mansi, Sac-
rorum Concilorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio, Vol. 15; p. 406; also
Hefele, Conciliengeschicte, Vol. 4, sec. 478.

(Pope Nicolas I, in answer to letter from Bogaris, ruling prince of Bul-
garia.)

“Ques. 6 – Bathing is allowed on Sunday. Ques. 10 – One is to cease
from work on Sunday, but not also on the Sabbath.” Hefele, 4, 346-
352, sec. 478.

The Bulgarians had been accustomed to rest on the Sabbath. Pope Ni-
colas writes against this practice. “Pope Nicholas I, in the ninth cen-
tury, sent the ruling prince of Bulgaria a long document saying in it that
one is to cease from work on Sunday, but not on the Sabbath. The head
of the Greek Church, offended at the interference of the Papacy, de-
clared the Pope excommunicated.” Truth Triumphant, p. 232.

CONSTANTINOPLE

(Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople [in counter-synod that deposed
Nicholas], thus accused Papacy).

“Against the canons, they induced the Bulgarians to fast on the Sab-
bath.” Photius, von Kard, Hergenrother, 1 , 643.

NOTE: The Papacy had always tried to bring the seventh-day Sabbath
into disrepute by insisting that all should fast on that day. In this
manner (she) sought to turn people towards Sunday, the first day, the
day that Rome had adopted.

ATHINGIANS

Cardinal Hergenrother says that they stood in intimate relation with
Emperor Michael II (821-829) and testifies that they observed the Sab-
bath. Kirchengeschichte, 1, 527.

INDIA, ABYSSINIA

“Widespread and enduring was the observance of the seventh-day Sab-
bath among the believers of the Church of the East and the St. Thomas
Christians of India. It was also maintained by the Abyssinians.”

10th Century

SCOTLAND

“They worked on Sunday, but kept Saturday in a Sabbatical manner.” A
History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation, Vol. 1 , p. 96, Andrew
Lang.

CHURCH OF THE EAST – Kurdistan

“The Nestorians eat no pork and keep the Sabbath. They believe in nei-
ther auricular confession nor purgatory.” Schaff-Herzog, The New En-
cyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge, art. “Nestorians.”

WALDENSES

“And because they observed no other day of rest but the Sabbath dayes,
they called them Insabathas, as much as to say, as they observed no
Sabbath [i.e., did not observe Sunday].” Luther’s Fore-Runners
(original spelling), pp. 7, 8

WALDENSES

Roman Catholic writers try to evade the apostolic origin of the
Waldenses, so as to make it appear that the Roman is the only apostolic
church, and that all others are later novelties. And for this reason they
try to make out that the Waldenses originated with Peter Waldo of the
twelfth century. Dr. Peter Allix says:

“Some Protestants, on this occasion, have fallen into the snare that was
set for them. … It is absolutely false, that these churches were ever founded by Peter Waldo. … It is a pure forgery.” Ancient Church
of Piedmont, pp. 192. Oxford: 1821.

“It is not true, that Waldo gave this name to the inhabitants of the val-
leys: they were called Waldenses, or Vaudes, before his time, from the
valleys in which they dwelt.” Id., p. 182

On the other hand, he “was called Valdus, or Waldo, because he re-
ceived his religious notions from the inhabitants of the valleys.” His-
tory of the Christian Church, William Jones, Vol. 2, p. 2.

11th Century

SCOTLAND

They held that Saturday was properly the Sabbath on which they ab-
stained from work. Celtic Scotland, Vol. 2, p. 350.

“They worked on Sunday, but kept Saturday in a sabbatical manner. . . .
These things Margaret abolished.” A History of Scotland from the
Roman Occupation, Vol. 1 , p. 98.

“It was another custom of theirs to neglect the reverence due to the
Lord’s day, by devoting themselves to every kind of worldly business
upon it, just as they did upon other days. That this was contrary to the
law, she (Queen Margaret) proved to them as well by reason as by au-
thority. ‘Let us venerate the Lord’s day,’ said she, ‘because of the resur-
rection of our Lord, which happened upon that day, and let us no longer
do servile works upon it; bearing in mind that upon this day we were
redeemed from the slavery of the devil. The blessed Pope Gregory af-
firms the same’.” Life of Saint Margaret, Turgot, p. 40 (British
Museum Library).

“Her next point was that they did not duly reverence the Lord’s day, but
in this latter instance they seemed to have followed a custom of which
we find traces in the early Church of Ireland, by which they held Satur-
day to be the Sabbath on which they rested from all their labours.”
Skene, Celtic Scotland, Vol. 2, p. 349.

SCOTLAND AND IRELAND

“T. Ratcliffe Barnett, in his book on the fervent Catholic queen of Scotland who in 1060 was first to attempt the ruin of Columba’s breth-
ren, writes: ‘In this matter the Scots had perhaps kept up the traditional
usage of the ancient Irish Church which observed Saturday instead of
Sunday as the day of rest.’” Barnett, Margaret of Scotland: Queen and
Saint, p. 97.

COUNCIL OF CLERMONT

“During the first crusade. Pope Urban II decreed at the council of Cler-
mont (A.D. 1095) that the Sabbath be set aside in honour of the Virgin
Mary.” History of the Sabbath, p. 672.

CONSTANTINOPLE

“Because you observe the Sabbath with the Jews and the Lord’s Day
with us, you seem to imitate with such observance the sect of Naza-
renes.” Migne, Patrologia Latina, Vol. 145, p. 506; also Hergenroether,
Photius, Vol. 3, p. 746.

GREEK CHURCH

“The observance of Saturday is, as everyone knows, the subject of a
bitter dispute between the Greeks and the Latins.” Neals, A History of
the Holy Eastern Church, Vol. 1 , p. 731 . (Referring to the separation of
the Greek Church from the Latin in 1064).

12th Century

LOMBARDY

“Traces of Sabbath-keepers are found in the times of Gregory I, Grego-
ry VII, and in the twelfth century in Lombardy.” Strong’s Cyclopaedia,
1,660.

WALDENSES

“Robinson gives an account of some of the Waldenses of the Alps, who
were called Sabbati, Sabbatati, Insabbatati, but more frequently Inzab-
batati. ‘One says they were so named from the Hebrew word Sabbath,
because they kept the Saturday for the Lord’s day’.” General History of
the Baptist Denomination, Vol. 2, p. 413.

SPAIN (Alphonse of Aragon)

“Alphonse, king of Aragon, etc., to all archbishops, bishops and to all
others . . . We command you that heretics, to wit, Waldenses and Insab-
bathi, should be expelled away from the face of God and from all Cath-
olics and ordered to depart from our kingdom.” Marianse, Praefatio in
Lucam Tudensem,” found in Macima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum, Vol.
25, p. 190.

HUNGARY, FRANCE, ENGLAND, ITALY, GERMANY.
(Referring to the Sabbath-keeping Pasagini)

“The spread of heresy at this time is almost incredible. From Bulgaria
to the Ebro, from northern France to the Tiber, everywhere

we meet them. Whole countries are infested, like Hungary and south-
ern France; they abound in many other countries; in Germany, in Italy,
in the Netherlands and even in England they put forth their efforts.” Dr.
Hahn, Gesch. der Ketzer, 1, 13, 14.

WALDENSES

“Among the documents, we have by the same peoples, an explanation
of the Ten Commandments dated by Boyer 1120. Observance of the
Sabbath by ceasing from worldly labours, is enjoined.” Blair, History
of the Waldenses, Vol. 1 , p. 220.

WALES

“There is much evidence that the Sabbath prevailed in Wales universal-
ly until A.D. 1115, when the first Roman bishop was seated at St.
David’s. The old Welsh Sabbath-keeping churches did not even then al-
together bow the knee to Rome, but fled to their hiding places.” Lewis,
Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, Vol.l , p. 29.

FRANCE

For twenty years Peter de Bruys stirred southern France. He especially
emphasised a day of worship that was recognised at that time among
the Celtic churches of the British Isles, among the Paulicians, and in
the great Church of the East namely, that seventh day of the fourth
commandment.

PASAGINI

The papal author, Bonacursus, wrote the following against the “Pasa-
gaini”: “Not a few, but many know what are the errors of those who are
called Pasagini. . . . First, they teach that we should obey the Sabbath.
Furthermore, to increase their error, they condemn and reject all the
church Fathers, and the whole Roman Church.” D’Achery, Spicilegium
I, f. 211-214; Muratory, Antiq. Med. aevi. 5, f. 152, Hahn, 3, 209.

13th Century

WALDENSES

“They say that the blessed Pope Sylvester was the Antichrist of whom
mention is made in the Epistles of St. Paul as having been the son of
perdition. [They also say] that the keeping of the Sabbath ought to take
place.” Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont, p.
169 (by prominent Roman Catholic author writing about Waldenses).

To destroy completely these heretics Pope Innocent III sent Dominican
inquisitors into France, and also crusaders, promising “a plenary remis-
sion of all sins, to those who took on them the crusade . . . against the
Albigenses.” Catholic Encyclopaedia, Vol. XII, art. “Raymond VI,” p. 670.

“The inquisitors . . . [declare] that the sign of a Vaudois, deemed
worthy of death, was that he followed Christ and sought to obey the
commandments of God.” History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages,
H.C. Lea, Vol.l.

FRANCE

Thousands of God’s people were tortured to death by the Inquisition,
buried alive, burned to death, or hacked to pieces by the crusaders.
While devastating the city of Biterre the soldiers asked the Catholic
leaders how they should know who were heretics; Arnold, Abbot of
Cisteaux, answered: “Slay them all, for the Lord knows who is His.”
History of the Inquisition, p. 96.

FRANCE – King Louis IX, 1229

Published the statute “Cupientes” in which he charges himself to clear
southern France from heretics as the Sabbath-keepers were called.

WALDENSES OF FRANCE

“The heresy of the Vaudois, or poor people of Lyons, is of great antiq-
uity, for some say that it has been continued down ever since the time
of Pope Sylvester; and others, ever since that of the apostles.” The
Roman Inquisitor, Reinerus Sacho, writing about 1230.

FRANCE – Council Toulouse, 1229

Canons against Sabbath-keepers: “Canon 3-The lords of the different
districts shall have the villas, houses and woods diligently searched,
and the hiding-places of the heretics destroyed.”

“Canon 14-Lay members are not allowed to possess the books of either
the Old or the New Testaments.” Hefele, 5,981, 982.

EUROPE

“The Paulicians, Petrobusians, Pasaginians, Waldenses, Insabbatati
were great Sabbath-keeping bodies of Europe down to 1250 A.D. 34

PASAGINIANS

Dr. Hahn says that if the Pasaginians referred to the 4th Commandment
to support the Sabbath, the Roman priests answered, “The Sabbath
symbolised the eternal rest of the saints.”

MONGOLIA

“The Mongolian conquest did not injure the Church of the East
(Sabbath-keeping). On the contrary, a number of the Mongolian princes
and a larger number of Mongolian queens were members of this
church.”

14th Century

WALDENSES

“That we are to worship one only God, who is able to help us, and not
the Saints departed; that we ought to keep holy the Sabbath day.”
Luther’s Fore-runners, p. 38.

INSABBATI

“For centuries evangelical bodies, especially the Waldenses, were
called Insabbati because of Sabbath-keeping.” Gui, Manuel d’ Inquisi-
teur.

BOHEMIA, 1310 (Modern Czechoslovakia)

“In 1310, two hundred years before Luther’s theses, the Bohemian
brethren constituted one-fourth of the population of Bohemia, and that
they were in touch with the Waldenses who abounded in Austria, Lom-
bardy, Bohemia, north Germany, Thuringia, Brandenburg, and Mora-
via. Erasmus pointed out how strictly Bohemian Waldenses kept the
seventh-day Sabbath.” Armitage, A History of the Baptists, p. 318;
Cox, The Literature of the Sabbath Question, Vol. 2, pp. 201-202.

NORWAY

Then, too, in the “Catechism” that was used during the fourteenth cen-
tury, the Sabbath commandment read thus: “Thou shalt not forget to
keep the seventh day.”

This is quoted from Documents and Studies Concerning the History of
the Lutheran Catechism in the Nordish Churches, p. 89. Christiania: 1893

“Also the priests have caused the people to keep Saturdays as Sun-
days.” Theological Periodicals for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Norway, Vol.l, p. 184, Oslo.

ENGLAND, HOLLAND, BOHEMIA

“We wrote of the Sabbatarians in Bohemia, Transylvania, England and
Holland between 1250 and 1600 A.D.” Wilkinson, p. 309.

15th Century

BOHEMIA

“Erasmus testifies that even as late as about 1500 these Bohemians not
only kept the seventh day scrupulously, but also were called Sabbatar-
ians. Cox, The Literature of the Sabbath Question, Vol. 2, pp. 201 , 202;
Truth Triumphant, p. 264.

NORWAY (Church Council held at Bergen, Norway, August 22,
1435)

“The first matter concerned a keeping holy of Saturday. It had come to
the ear of the archbishop that people in different places of the kingdom
had ventured the keeping holy of Saturday. It is strictly forbidden – it is
stated – in the Church-Law, for any one to keep or to adopt holy days,
outside of those which the pope, archbishop, or bishops appoint.” “The
History of the Norwegian Church Under Catholicism, R. Keyser, Vol.
II, p. 488. Oslo: 1858.

“We are informed that some people in different districts of the king-
dom, have adopted and observed Saturday-keeping. It is severely for-
bidden – in holy church canon – one and all to observe days excepting
those which the holy Pope, archbishop, or the bishops command. Sat-
urday-keeping must under no circumstances be permitted hereafter fur-
ther than the church canon commands. Therefore, we counsel all the
friends of God throughout all Norway who want to be obedient to-
wards the holy church to let this evil of Saturday-keeping alone; and
the rest we forbid under penalty of severe church punishment to keep
Saturday holy.” Dip. Norveg., 7, 397.

NORWAY, 1436 (Church Conference at Oslo)

“It is forbidden under the same penalty to keep Saturday holy by re-
fraining from labour.” History of the Norwegian Church, p. 401 .

FRANCE – Waldenses

“Louis XII, King of France (1498-1515), being informed by the en-
emies of the Waldenses, inhabiting a part of the province of Provence,
that several heinous crimes were laid to their account, sent the Master
of Requests, and a certain doctor of the Sorbonne, to make inquiry into
this matter. On their return they reported that they had visited all the
parishes, but could not discover any traces of those crimes with which
they were charged. On the contrary, they kept the Sabbath day, ob-
served the ordinance of baptism, according to the primitive church, in-
structed their children in the articles of the Christian faith, and the
commandments of God. The King having heard the report of his com-
missioners, said with an oath that they were better men than himself or
his people.” History of the Christian Church, Vol. II, pp. 71-72, third
edition. London: 1818.

INDIA

“Separated from the Western world for a thousand years, they were nat-
urally ignorant of many novelties introduced by the councils and de-
crees of the Lateran. ‘We are Christians, and not idolators,’ was their
expressive reply when required to do homage to the image of the
Virgin Mary.”

16th Century

ENGLAND

“In the reign of Elizabeth, it occurred to many conscientious and inde-
pendent thinkers (as it previously had done to some Protestants in Bo-
hemia) that the fourth commandment required of them the observance,
not of the first, but of the specified ‘seventh’ day of the week.” Cham-
bers’ Cyclopaedia, article “Sabbath,” Vol. 8,p.416, 1887.

RUSSIA (Council, Moscow, 1503)

“The accused [Sabbath-keepers] were summoned; they openly ac-
knowledged the new faith, and defended the same. The most eminent
of them, the Secretary of State, Kuritsyn, Ivan Maximow, Kassian, ar-
chimandrite of the Lury Monastary of Novgorod, were condemned to
death, and burned publicly in cages, at Moscow; Dec. 17, 1503.” H.
Starnbard, Geschichte der Juden (Leipzig, 1872), pp. 117-122).

SWEDEN

“This zeal for Saturday-keeping continued for a long time: even little
things which might strengthen the practice of keeping Saturday were
punished.” Bishop Anjou, Svenska Kirkans Historia after Motet 1
Upsala.

LICHENSTEIN

“The Sabbatarians teach that the outward Sabbath, i.e., Saturday,

still must be observed. They say that Sunday is the Pope’s invention.”
Refutation of Sabbath, by Wolfgang Capito, published 1599.

BOHEMIA (the Bohemian Brethren)

Dr. R. Cox says: “I find from a passage in Erasmus that at the early
period of the Reformation when he wrote, there were Sabbatarians in
Bohemia, who not only kept the seventh day, but were said to be . . .
scrupulous in resting on it.” Literature of the Sabbath Question, Cox,
Vol. II, pp. 201, 202.

HISTORIAN’S LIST OF CHURCHES (16th Century)

“Sabbatarians, so called because they reject the observance of the
Lord’s day as not commanded in Scripture, they consider the Sabbath
alone to be holy, as God rested on that day and commanded to keep it
holy and to rest on it.” A. Ross.

GERMANY – Dr. Eck (while refuting the Reformers)

“However, the church has transferred the observance from Saturday to
Sunday by virtue of her own power, without Scripture.” Dr. Eck’s
Enchiridion, 1533, pp. 78, 79.

EUROPE

About the year 1520 many of these Sabbath-keepers found shelter on
the estate of Lord Leonhardt of Lichtensein, “as the princes of Lichten-
stein held to the observance of the true Sabbath.” Histor of the Sabbath, J.N. Andrews, p. 649, ed.

INDIA

“The famous Jesuit, Francis Xavier, called for the Inquisition, which
was set up in Goa, India, in 560, to check the ‘Jewish wickedness’
(Sabbath-keeping).” Adeney, The Greek and Eastern Churches, pp.
527,528.

NORWAY – 1544

“Some of you, contrary to the warning, keep Saturday. You ought to be
severely punished. Whoever shall be found keeping Saturday, must pay
a fine of ten marks.” History of King Christian the Third, Niels Krag
and S. Stephanius.

AUSTRIA

“Sabbatarians now exist in Austria.” Luther, Lectures on Genesis, A.D.
1523-27.

ABYSSINIA – A.D. 1534 (Abyssinian legate at court of Lisbon)

“It is not therefore, in imitation of the Jews, but in obedience to Christ
and His holy Apostles, that we observe that day.” Geddes’s Church
History of Ethiopia, pp. 87, 88.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER

“God blessed the Sabbath and sanctified it to Himself. God willed that
this command concerning the Sabbath should remain. He willed that on
the seventh day the word should be preached.” Commentary on Gen-
esis, Vol. l,pp. 138-140.

BAPTISTS

“Some have suffered torture because they would not rest when others
kept Sunday, for they declared it to be the holiday and law of Anti-
christ.” Sebastian Frank (A.D. 1536).

SWITZERLAND

“The observance of the Sabbath is a part of the moral law. It has been
kept holy since the beginning of the world.” ref: Noted Swiss writer, R.
Hospinian.

HOLLAND AND GERMANY

Barbara of Thiers, who was executed in 1529, declared: “God has com-
manded us to rest on the seventh day.”

Another martyr, Christina Tolingerin, is mentioned thus: “Concerning
holy days and Sundays, she said: Tn six days the Lord made the world,
on the seventh day he rested. The other holy days have been instituted
by popes, cardinals, and archbishops’.” Martyrology of the Churches of
Christ, commonly called Baptists, during the era of the Reformation, from the Dutch of T.J. Van Braght, London, 1850, 1, pp. 113-114.

FINLAND – Dec. 6, 1554 (King Gustavus Vasa I, of Sweden’s letter
to the people of Finland)

“Some time ago we heard that some people in Finland had fallen into a
great error and observed the seventh day, called Saturday.” State Li-
brary at Helsingfors, Reichs-register, Vom J., 1554, Teil B.B. leaf 1120,
pp. 175-180a.

17th Century

ENGLAND – 1618

“At last for teaching only five days in the week, and resting upon Sat-
urday she was carried to the new prison in Maiden Lane, a place then
appointed for the restraint of several other persons of different opinions
from the Church of England. Mrs. Traske lay fifteen or sixteen years a
prisoner for her opinion about the Saturday Sabbath.” Pagitt’s Heresi-
ography, p. 196.

ENGLAND – 1668

“Here in England are about nine or ten churches that keep the Sabbath,
besides many scattered disciples, who have been eminently preserved.”
Stennet’s letters, 1668 and 1670, Cox, Sab., 1, 268.

ENGLAND

Mr. Thomas Bampfield, who had been Speaker in one of Cromwell’s
parliaments, wrote also in behalf of seventh-day observance, and was
imprisoned for his religious principles in Ilchester jail. Calamy, 2, 260.

HUNGARY, RUMANIA

But as they rejected Sunday and rested on the Sabbath, Prince Sigmond
Bathory ordered their persecution. Pechi advanced to position of chan-
cellor of state and next in line to throne of Transylvania. He studied his
Bible, and composed a number of hymns, mostly in honour of the Sab-
bath. Pechi was arrested and died in 1640.

SWEDEN AND FINLAND

“We can trace these opinions over almost the whole extent of Sweden
of that day – from Finland and northern Sweden.”

“In the district of Upsala the farmers kept Saturday in place of
Sunday.”

“About the year 1625 this religious tendency became so pronounced in
these countries that not only large numbers of the common people
began to keep Saturday as the rest day, but even many priests did the
same.” History of the Swedish Church, Vol. I, p. 56.

MUSCOVITE RUSSIAN CHURCH

“They solemnize Saturday (the old Sabbath). Samuel Purchase His Pil-
grims, Vol. I, p. 350.

INDIA (Jacobites) – 1625

“They keep Saturday holy. They have solemn service on Saturdays.”
Pilgrimmes, Part 2, p. 1269.

AMERICA – 1664

“Stephen Mumford, the first Sabbath-keeper in America came from
London in 1664.” Hist, of the Seventh-day Baptist Gen. Conf. by Jas.
Bailey, pp. 237, 238.

AMERICA – 1671 (Seventh-day Baptists)

“Broke from Baptist Church in order to keep Sabbath.” See Bailey’s
History, pp. 9, 10.

ENGLAND – Charles 1, 1647 (when querying the Parliament Com-
missioners)

“For it will not be found in Scripture where Saturday is no longer to be
kept, or turned into the Sunday wherefore it must be the church’s au-
thority that changed the one and instituted the other.” Cox, Sabbath
Laws, p. 333.

ENGLAND – John Milton

“It will surely be far safer to observe the seventh day, according to ex-
press commandment of God, than on the authority of mere human con-
jecture to adopt the first.” Sab. Lit. 2, 46-54.

ENGLAND

“Upon the publication of the ‘Book of Sports’ in 1618 a violent contro-
versy arose among English divines on two points: first, whether the

Sabbath of the fourth commandment was in force; and, secondly, on
what ground the first day of the week was entitled to be observed as
‘the Sabbath’.” Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates, art. “Sabbatarians,” p. 602.

ETHIOPIA – 1604

Jesuits tried to induce the Abyssinian church to accept Roman Catholi-
cism. They influenced King Zadenghel to propose to submit to the
Papacy (A.D. 1604). “Prohibiting all his subjects, upon severe penal-
ties, to observe Saturday any longer.” Gedde’s Church History of Ethi-
opia, p. 311, also Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, ch. 47.

BOHEMIA, MORAVIA, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY

“One of the counsellors and lords of the court was John Gerendi, head
of the Sabbatarians, a people who did not keep Sunday, but Saturday.”
Lamy, The History of Socinianism, p. 60.

DR CHAMBERLAIN

The inscription on the monument over the grave of Dr. Peter Chamber-
lain, physician to King James and Queen Anne, King Charles I and
Queen Katherine says that Dr. Chamberlain was “a Christian keeping
the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, being baptised about
the year 1648, and keeping the seventh day for the Sabbath above thir-
ty-two years.” Telegraph Print, Napier.

18th Century

ABYSSINIA

“The Jacobites assembled on the Sabbath day, before the Domical day,
in the temple, and kept that day, as do also the Abyssinians as we have
seen from the confession of their faith by the Ethiopian king Claudius.”
Abudacnus, Historia Jacobitarum, p. 118-119 (18th Century).

RUMANIA, 1760 (and what is today) YUGOSLAVIA, CZECHO-
SLOVAKIA

“Joseph II’s edict of tolerance did not apply to the Sabbatarians, some
of whom again lost all of their possessions.” Jahrgang 2, 254.

Catholic priests aided by soldiers forcing them to accept Romanism
nominally, and compelling the remainder to labour on the Sabbath and
to attend church on Sunday, these were the methods employed for two
hundred fifty years to turn the Sabbatarians.

GERMANY – Tennhardt of Nuremberg

“He holds strictly to the doctrine of the Sabbath, because it is one of
the ten commandments.” Bengel’s Leben und Wirken, Burk, p. 579.

He himself says: “It cannot be shown that Sunday has taken the place
of the Sabbath (p. 366). The Lord God has sanctified the last day of the
week. Antichrist, on the other hand, has appointed the first day of the
week.” Kl. Auszug aus Tennhardt’s Schriften, p. 49 (printed 1712).

BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA (Today Czechoslovakia). Their his-
tory from 1635 to 1867 is thus described by Adolf Dux

“The condition of the Sabbatarians was dreadful. Their books and writ-
ings had to be delivered to the Karlsburg Consistory to become the
spoil of flames.” Aus Ungarn, pp. 289-291 . Leipzig, 1880.

HOLLAND AND GERMANY

Dr. Cornelius states of East Friesland, that when Baptists were numer-
ous, “Sunday and holidays were not observed,” (they were Sabbath-
keepers). Der Antell Ostfrieslands and Ref. Muenster, 1852, pp. 29, 34.

MORAVIA – Count Zinzendorf

In 1738 Zinzendorf wrote of his keeping the Sabbath thus: “That I have
employed the Sabbath for rest many years already, and our Sunday for
the proclamation of the gospel.” Budingache Sammlung, Sec. 8, p. 224.
Leipzig, 1742.

AMERICA, 1741 (Moravian Brethren after Zinzendorf arrived
from Europe.)

“As a special instance it deserves to be noticed that he is resolved with
the church at Bethlehem to observe the seventh day as rest day. Id., pp.
5,1421,1422.

But before Zinzendorf and the Moravians at Bethlehem thus began the
observance of the Sabbath and prospered, there was a small body of
German Sabbath-keepers in Pennsylvania. See Rupp’s History of Reli-
gious Denominations in the United States, pp. 109-123.

19th Century

RUSSIA

“But the majority moved to the Crimea and the Caucasus, where they
remain true to their doctrine in spite of persecution until this present
time. The people call them Subotniki, or Sabbatarians.” Sternberg, Ge-
schichte der Juden in Polen, p. 124.

CHINA

“At this time Hung prohibited the use of opium, and even tobacco, and
all intoxicating drinks, and the Sabbath was religiously observed.” The
Ti-Ping Revolution, by Lin-Le, an officer among them, Vol. I, pp.
38-48,84.

“The seventh day is most religiously and strictly observed. The Taiping
Sabbath is kept upon our Saturday.” p. 319.

“The Taipings when asked why they observed the seventh-day Sabbath,
replied that it was, first, because the Bible taught it, and second, be-
cause their ancestors observed it as a day of worship.” A Critical His-
tory of the Sabbath and the Sunday.

INDIA AND PERSIA

“Besides, they maintain the solemn observance of Christian worship
throughout our Empire, on the seventh day.” Christian Researches in
Asia, p. 143.

DENMARK

This Agitation was not without its effect. Pastor M.A. Sommer began
observing the seventh-day, and wrote in his church paper, “Indovet
Kristendom” No. 5, 1875, an impressive article about the true Sabbath.
In a letter to Elder John G. Matteson, he says: “Among the Baptists
here in Denmark there is a great agitation regarding the Sabbath com-
mandment. . . . However, I am probably the only preacher in Denmark
who stands so near to the Adventists and who for many years has pro-
claimed Christ’s second coming.” Advent Tidente, May, 1875.

SWEDEN (Baptists)

“We will now endeavour to show that the sanctification of the Sabbath
has its foundation and its origin in a law which God at creation itself
established for the whole world, and as a consequence thereof is bind-
ing on all men in all ages.”

May 30, 1863, p. 169. Evangelisten (“The Evangelist”), Stockholm,
May 30 to August 15, 1863 (organ of the Swedish Baptist Church).

AMERICA, 1845

“Thus we see Dan. 7:25, fulfilled, the little horn changing ‘times and
laws.’ Therefore it appears to me that all who keep the first day for the
Sabbath are Pope’s Sunday-keepers and God’s Sabbath-breakers.”
Elder T.M. Preble, Feb. 13, 1845.

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

In 1844 Seventh-day Adventists arose and had spread to nearly all the
world by the close of the 19th Century. Their name is derived from
their teaching of the seventh-day Sabbath and the Advent of Jesus. In
1874 their work was established in Europe, 1885 – Australasia, 1887 –
South Africa, 1888 – Asia, 1888 – South America.

20th Century until 1954

Seventh-day Adventists uphold the same Sabbath that Jesus and His
followers kept. The sacred Torch of Truth was not extinguished
through the long centuries. Adventists are working today in nearly
1000 languages of the earth. Over 12,500 churches of Sabbath-keepers
are spread from “pole to pole” — from Hammerfest, Norway, the
northernmost city of the world, to Punta Arenas in South America, the
southernmost. One million members around the globe welcome the
sacred Sabbath hours.

SOUTH AMERICA

Sixty thousand gather together each Sabbath. There are 370 Adventist
schools and colleges for training missionaries.

INTER-AMERICA

In this division there are 64,000 faithful Sabbath-keepers. The Message
is spreading rapidly, as one will realise by looking at the small island of
Jamaica. One hundred and 147 miles long, it has 151 Adventist church-
es for the 17,000 members there. Mexico has 20,000 Sabbath- school
members.

INDIA

One hundred and 67 thousand people are studying the Sabbath message
through the Voice of Prophecy.

PHILIPPINES

In a recent three-year period, 10,000 new Sabbath-keepers were bap-
tized.

RUSSIA

Reports indicate that the people are looking for the Bible. In some vil-
lages, up to 50% of the people have begun to observe the Sabbath of
God.

YUGOSLAVIA

Reports an increase of 104%.

RUMANIA

About 5000 new believers are baptized here each year.

ENGLAND

Figures rapidly being outdated as many thousands embrace the Truth.

GERMANY

Reports 6000 new Sabbath-keepers each year.

AFRICA

Over 100,000 members of the Sabbath School.

SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

Former cannibals and headhunters of New Guinea and the Islands now
true commandment keepers.

RADIO AND TELEVISION

One thousand Radio or Television stations throughout the world bring
Sabbath message to millions.

SERVICE TO HUMANITY

Seventh-day Adventists operate 200 modem hospitals and clinics with
10,000 doctors, nurses, and helpers; 4,200 schools and 350 colleges
help train missionaries; 60 publishing houses print Gospel literature.

The Sabbath is a precious heritage handed down to this generation by
the martyrs of old. Today, it binds God’s “Remnant” people together in
close brotherly friendship regardless of whether they are black, white,
or yellow. From the East, from the West, from the North, from the
South, by the thousands and hundreds of thousands, they prepare for
the coming of Christ.