Proctor, Richard A.: The Great Pyramid: observatory, tomb, and temple (New York, 1883)

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professedly repudiated, was clearly demonstrated
by this, that in each of their temples they fixed
up in some conspicuous place the Ten Command-
ments of the Jewish religion, while they rarely, if
ever, fixed up the two Christian Commandments
given instead of them. And yet," says the reporter,
after dilating on these strange facts, " though the
English were greatly given to missionary enter-
prises of all kinds, and though I sought diligently
among the records of these, I could find no trace
of a society for converting the English people from
Judaism to Christianity.'"

It is, indeed, a strange circumstance that Chris-
tian teachings in our time respecting the observ-
ance of each seventh day should be at variance,
not only with what is known of the origin of the
observance of Sunday, as distinguished from the
Sabbath of the Jews, but even more emphatically
with the teachings of Christ, both as to the purpose
of a day of rest, and as to the manner in which the
poor should be considered. Our Sunday is in fact,
if not in origin, the Sabbath of the Jews, not the
Lord's Day of the Apostles ; it is regarded, not as
a day set apart to refresh those who toil, but as
though man were made for its observance ; while
the soul-wearying doom of the day is so ordered
as to affect chiefly the poorer classes, who want.