Episcopal: “Is there any command in the New Testament to change the day of weekly rest from Saturday to Sunday? None.” (Manual of Christian Doctrine, p. 127)
“We have made a change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the authority of the one holy Catholic and apostolic church of Christ.” (Why we keep Sunday, p. 28.)
Lutherse: “ The observance of the Lord’s day (Sunday) is founded not on any command of God, but on the authority of the church.” (“The Augsburg Confession” In: Catholic Sabbath Manual, part 2, section 10.)
Presbyterian: “A Change of the day to be observed from the last day of the week to the first. There is no record, no express command, authorizing this change. N.L. Rice, The Christian Sabbath, p. 60)
Methodiste: “Take the matter of Sunday... there is no passage telling Christians to keep that day, or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day.” (H.F. Rall, Christian Advocate, July 2, 1942)
Congregationalist: “It is quite clear that however rigidly, or devoutly we spend Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath... There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday.” (Dr. R.W. Dale, The Ten Commandments, pp. 100-101)
Anglican: “Many people think that Sunday is the Sabbath, but neither in the New Testament nor in the early church, is there anything to suggest that we have any right to transfer the observance of the seventh day of the week to the first. The Sabbath was and is Saturday and not Sunday...” (Rev. Lionel Beere, Church and People, Sept. 1st, 1947)
Baptist: “There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday... There is no scriptural evidence of the change of the Sabbath institution from the seventh day to the first day of the week.” (Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, (author of the Baptist Manual) New York Ministries Conference, Nov. 13, 1893)
“Reverend Philip Carrington, Anglican Archbishop of Quebec, sent local clergymen into a huddle today by saying outright that there was nothing to support Sunday being kept holy. Carrington definitely told a church meeting in this city of straight-laced Protestantism that tradition, not the Bible, had made Sunday the day of worship.” (Toronto Daily Star, Oct 26, 1949).
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