A Compendium of the Sabbath and Religious and Civil Liberty (Classic Reprint)

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Ages, and to this rest as occurring one day In seven. So truth has sprung out of the earth. All this seems to find its solution in the declaration of Revelation: And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. The following historic evidence is sufficient to establish this point. George Smith, noted in Assyrian researches, says: I discovered among other things a curious religious calendar of the Assyrians, in which every month is divided into four weeks, and the seventh days, or Sabbaths are marked out as days on which no work should be undertaken. The fifth of these tablets is known as the creation tablet, two lines of which H. T. Talbot, trans.

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