In reference to the Druidism on the continent, history
records the fact that when one of the reigning kings became a convert
to Christianity the whole of his subjects were baptized into the Church
of Rome by Imperial decree.
THE SABBATH.
In determining the origin of the seventh day Sabbath, we must of
necessity refer to that source of all religious ordinances, the ancient
astrolatry, the founders of which, having taught that God Sol was
engaged in the reorganization of Chaos during the first six periods of
the twelve thousand year cycle, corresponding to the months of Spring
and Summer, they conceived the idea that he ceased to exert his
energies, or rested from his labors on the seventh period,
corresponding to the first of the Autumn months. Hence, deriving the
suggestion from the apparent septenary rest in nature, they taught that
God ordained the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath or rest day for
man.
In conformity to this ordinance the founders of ancient Judaism
enforced the observance of the seventh day Sabbath in the fourth
commandment of the Decalogue, which, found in Gen. xx. 8-11,[1] reads
as follows, viz: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days
shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six
days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day
and hallowed it.
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