Council Of Friaul, Italy-A.D. 791 (Canon
13)
"We command all Christians to observe the Lord's day to be held not in honour
of the past Sabbath, but on account of that holy night of the first of the week
called the Lord's day. When speaking of that Sabbath which the Jews observe,
the last day of the week, and which also our peasants observe.." Mansi,
13, 851
Persia and Mesopotamia
"The hills of Persia and the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates reechoed
their songs of praise. They reaped their harvests and paid their tithes. They
repaired to their churches on the Sabbath day for the worship of God." "Realencyclopaedie
fur Protestatische and Krche," art. "Nestorianer"; also Yule, "The
Book of ser Marco Polo," Vol.2, p.409.
India, China, Persia, ETC
"Widespread and enduring was the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath among
the believers of the Church of the East and the St. Thomas Christians of India,
who never were connected with Rome. It also was maintained among those bodies
which broke off from Rome after the Council of Chalcedon namely, the Abyssinians,
the Jacobites, the Maronites, and the Armenians," Schaff-Herzog, The New
Enclopadia of Religious Knowledge," art. "Nestorians"; also Realencyclopaedie
fur Protestantische Theologie und Kirche," art. "Nestorianer."
Council Of Liftinae, Belgium - A.D.745 (Attended
By Boniface)
"The third allocution of this council warns against the observance of the
Sabbath, referring to the decree of the council of Laodicea." Dr. Hefele,
Counciliengfesch, 3, 512, sec. 362 China - A.D.781
In A.D. 781 the famous ChinaMonument was inscribed in marble to tell
of the growth of Christianity in Chinaat that time. The inscription,
consisting of 763 words, was unearthed in 1625 near the city of Changan
and now stands in the "Forest of Tablets," Changan. The following
extract from the stone shows that the Sabbath was observed:
"On the seventh day we offer sacrifices, after having purified
our hearts, and received absolution for our sins. This religion, so perfect
and so excellent, is difficult to name, but it enlightens darkness by
its brilliant precepts." Christianity in China, M. I'Abbe Huc, Vol.
I, ch.2, pp. 48, 49
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