Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue moral and financial support to the Interdenominational Lord's Day Alliance, which seeks to write the Sabbath into the Constitution...
Seventh-Day Adventists believe, apart from their celebration of Saturday as the Sabbath,* that "between the end of the Christian or Gospel age and the beginning of the New Earth state, there will be a thousand-year period called the millennium; that the Second Coming of Christ, the first resurrection (the resurrection of the righteous dead), the binding of Satan, and the translation of the righteous to heaven, will mark the beginning of this period; that during this time, the wicked will be dead on this earth, Satan and his angels will be confined here in solitude, and the righteous...
...quaint notion this--that the sanctity of the Sabbath day goes into effect precisely at 11 o'clock, no sooner and no later. At first the demarcation of such a definite dead-line for weekly sin appears to be wholly illogical, but after a lengthy microscopic examination, there becomes faintly apparent the only possible loop-hole to plausibility. The authors of this legislative marvel may perhaps have the ancient Hebraic conception of a personal deity with all the very human characteristics of the Olympian gods, who, after the activities of Saturday night, is scarcely interested in what happens on Sunday...