p. 398 | ANCIENT SABBATH-KEEPING by M. E. C.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · June 17, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 25

ANCIENT SABBATH-KEEPING.

By M. E. C.

The Northern Christian Advocate gives some account of the Assyrian tablets discovered in the excavations on the site of Ancient Babylon. According to the account given by Rev. A. H. Sayce, in his lectures before the Royal Institution, some interesting records are being brought to light. He says:—

“The Sabbath of the seventh day appears to have been observed with great strictness; even the monarch was forbidden to eat cooked meat, change his clothes, take medicine, or drive his chariot, on that day. Not the least singular discovery is a catalogue, compiled some four thousand years ago, which directs the person wishing to consult any book to search out and write down the number and hand it to the librarian.”

M. E. C.