ssor Brerewood, of Gresham College, London,
put in shortest phrase what many writers say:

"They know little who do not know that the ancient Sabbath did
remain and was observed by the Eastern churches three hundred
years after our Saviour's passion."--_"Treatise on the
Sabbath," p. 77._

Fourth Century

Canon 29, of the Council of Laodicea (A.D. 364), shows that the
ecclesiastical system was laboring to put an end to Sabbath keeping:

"Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday [the
Sabbath], but shall work on that day; but the Lord's day [as
they called Sunday] they shall especially honor, and, as being
Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If,
however, they be found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from
Christ."--_Hefele, "History of the Councils of the Church,"
Vol. II, book 6, sec. 93, canon 29._

Fifth Century

Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History shows Rome evidently leading in the
effort to abolish any recognition whatever of the Sabbath:

"The people of Constantinople, and of several other cities,
assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the next day;
which custom is never observed at Rome, or at
Alexandria."--_Book 7, chap. 19._

Seventh Century

There were true Sabbath keepers in Rome itself, teaching the truth of
God among the people, and bringing upon themselves the denunciation of
Pope Gregory the Great, who wrote "to his most beloved sons the Roman
citizens:"

"It has come to my ears that certain men of perverse spirit
have sown among you some things that are wrong and opposed to
the holy faith, so as to forbid any work being done on the
Sabbath day. What else can I call these but preachers of
Antichrist?"--_"History of the Councils" (Labbe and Cossart),
Vol. V, col. 1511; see also "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,"
Vol. XIII, book 13, epistle 1._

Eleventh Century

The Pope's legates at Constantinople (A.D. 1054) were called to
discuss with Nicetas, "one of the most learned men at that time in the
East," says Bower, whose position was "that the Sabbath ought to be kept
holy, and that priests should be allowed to marry."--_"History of the
Popes," Vol. II, p. 358._

The people of north Scotland, the ancient Culdee church founded by
Columba and his followers, far removed from direct papal influence, was
still keeping the seventh-day Sabbath i