ROME'S
CHALLENGE
WHY DO PROTESTANTS
KEEP SUNDAY?

Produced in 1893 as an attempt to discredit Protestants, this title became a 32-page pamphlet of reprints from four editorials of The Catholic Mirror on September 2, 9, 16 and 23.

"Examining the New Testament from cover to cover, critically, we find the sabbath referred to 61 times. We find, too, that the Savior invariably selected the sabbath (Saturday) to teach in the synagogues and work miracles. The four gospels refer to the sabbath 51 times..."

"...the Redeemer refers to Himself as 'the Lord of the sabbath'...He never once hinted at a desire to change it...thus the sabbath (Saturday) [remains] from Genesis to Revelation"

"Hence the conclusion is inevitable...that of those who follow the Bible as their guide, the Israelites and Seventh-day Adventists have the exclusive weight of evidence on their side, whilst the Biblical Protestant has not a word in self-defense for his substitution of Sunday for Saturday..."

"The Bible and the Sabbath constitute the watchword of Protestantism; but we have demonstrated that it is the Bible against their Sabbath...We have shown that no greater contradiction ever existed than their theory and practice! We have proved that neither their Biblical ancestors nor themselves have ever kept one Sabbath day in their lives..."

"The Catholic Church for over 1,000 years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday...We say by virtue of her divine mission, because He who called Himself the 'Lord of teh Sabbath' endowed her with His own power to teach, 'He that heareth you, heareth me'...and promised to be with her to the end of the world. She holds her charter from Him---a charter as infallible as perpetual..."

"The Protestant world at its birth found the Christian Sabbath (Sunday) too strongly entrenched to run counter to its existence...It was therefore placed under the necessity of acquiescing in the arrangement, thus implying the Church's right to change the day, for over 300 years..."

"The history of the world cannot present a more stupid, self-stultifying specimen of dereliction of principle than this... That immense concourse of Bible Christians, the Methodists, have declared that he Sabbath has never been abrogated, whilst the followers of the Church of England, together with her daughter, the Episcopal Church of the United States, are committed by the 20th Article of Religion that the chuch cannot lawfully ordain anything 'contrary to God's written Word,' yet God's written Word enjoins His worship to be observed on Saturday absolutely, repeatedly, and most emphatically... All Biblical sects occupy the same self-stultifying position which no explanation can modify, much less justify."

"They have ignored and condemned their teacher, the Bible...and they have adopted a day kept by the Catholic Church...the 'Mother of Abominations'..."

This was Rome's Challenge to all Protestants. Shocking, but clearly foretold by Isaiah. While lost for a time, the Sabbath would be reestablished before Christ's return!