A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . the influence which it hadlost because of the Reformation. Neither could thepriesthood have virtually deprived the people at largeof the Bible. A people thoroughly trained to reverenceand to keep that sacred day could never have been se-duced again into Romanism, nor to permit saints daysto usurp its place and sacredness. The Sabbath on the Continent.—The question hasoften been raised. Why did not the Reformers on theContinent have as clear and distinct views of thesacredness of the Sabbath as had Knox and his co-wo
A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . the influence which it hadlost because of the Reformation. Neither could thepriesthood have virtually deprived the people at largeof the Bible. A people thoroughly trained to reverenceand to keep that sacred day could never have been se-duced again into Romanism, nor to permit saints daysto usurp its place and sacredness. The Sabbath on the Continent.—The question hasoften been raised. Why did not the Reformers on theContinent have as clear and distinct views of thesacredness of the Sabbath as had Knox and his co-workers ? The answer has usually been, that they wereso accustomed to the number of saints days in theRoman calendar, and in comparison with which days,especially those devoted to the Virgin Mary, the Lordsday was deemed less sacred. Again, the continentalreformers were at the first absorbed in lines of contro-versy that did not especially involve the observance ofthe Sabbath. These reformers failed to insist on thepractice of spiritual religion with the earnestness of the. Rev. Samuel Davies, D. D.(130, 140, 141, 168, 171.) SABBATH DESECRATION. 49 Puritans; hence the proper observance of the Sabbathas sacred time did not appear to them so lack of appreciation of the Lords day has been agreat hindrance to the advancement of spiritual religionamong the common people on the Continent: Saints days, on the other hand, never held so muchsway in the established church in the British Isles asthey did on the Continent, because the mass of the peo-ple were better informed in respect to Bible truths, aswe have already noted in this narrative. The conti-nental reformers, therefore, had not as good mate-rial to act upon as had the English and Scotch English people, because of their knowledge of theBible, were too well informed as to the sacredness ofthe fourth commandment to permit any saints daysto supersede its importance. That commandment re-quired the holy re
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