How do you prove that the church hath power to
establish feasts and holy days?

"_Ans._--By the very fact of changing the Sabbath to Sunday;
this change Protestants allow; and therefore they contradict
themselves by keeping Sunday strictly and breaking most other
feasts commanded by the same church.

"_Ques._--How prove you that?

"_Ans._--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 commanded by her, they deny that
she has power."

It is the doctrine taught in the standard catechisms of the Roman
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 have 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, a change for which there is no Scriptural
authority."--_Keenan's "Doctrinal Catechism," p. 174._

Thus the Papacy proclaims itself the power that has _thought_ to change
the precepts of the Most High.

On every count, the Roman Church is the counterpart of the little horn
of Daniel 7. Before our eyes--in the common practice of Christendom--the
commandment of God regarding sacred time is made void by the traditions
of men.

The prophecy indicated that there would come a call for a reformation in
this matter. Speaking of the warfare against the saints and the times
and laws of the Most High, to be waged by the little-horn power, the
angel said:

"They shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the
dividing of time." Dan. 7:25.

In other words, when the 1260 years should expire, we should expect,
according to the prophecy, to see a breaking of the Papacy's persecuting
power over believers, a spreading abroad of the Holy Scriptures, and a
work of reformation that would lift up the truths of God's Word, and
call believers to keep once again the holy time and the holy law of the
Most High.

The prophecy of Daniel 7 is one of God's special messages for all men in
these last days, picturing the rise and history of the Papacy, and
warning all against accepting its perversions of God's truth or
recognizing its attempted change in the law of the Most High. Thank God
for