But why should any one labor to prove that Christ changed the Sabbath?  Whoever does this is performing a thankless task.  The pope will not thank him; for if it is proved that Christ wrought this change, then the pope is robbed of his badge of authority and power.  And no truly enlightened Protestant will thank him; for if he succeeds, he only shows that the papacy has not done the work which it was predicted that it should do, and so that the prophecy has failed, and the Scriptures are unreliable.  The matter had better stand as the propheqy has placed it, and the claim which the pope unwittingly puts forth, had better be granted.  When a person is charged with any work, and that person steps forth and confesses that he has done the work, that is usually considered sufficient to settle the matter.  So, when the prophecy affirms that a certain power shall change the law of God, and that very power in due time arises, does the work foretold, and then openly claims that he has done it, what need have we of further evidence?  The world should not forget that the great apostasy foretold by Paul has taken place; that the man of sin for long ages held almost a monopoly of Christian teaching in the world; that the mystery of iniquity has cast the darkness of its shadow and the errors of its doctrines over almost all Christendom; and out of this era of error and darkness and corruption, the theology of our day has come.  Would it then be anything strange if there were yet some relics of popery to be discarded ere the reformation will be complete?  A. Campbell (Baptism, p. 15), speaking of the different Prostestant sects, says:—­

“All of them retain in their bosom, in their ecclesiastic organizations, worship, doctrines, and observances, various relics of popery.  They are at best a reformation of popery, and only reformations in part.  The doctrines and traditions of men yet impair the power and progress of the gospel in their hands.”

The nature of the change which the little horn has attempted to effect in the law of God is worthy of notice.  With true Satanic instinct, he undertakes to change that commandment which, of all others, is the fundamental commandment of the law, the one which makes known who the Law-giver is, and contains his signature of royalty.  The fourth commandment does this; no other one does.  Four others, it is true, contain the word God, and three of them the word Lord, also.  But who is this Lord God of whom they speak?  Without the fourth commandment it is impossible to tell; for idolaters of every grade apply these terms to the multitudinous objects of their adoration.  With the fourth commandment to point out the Author of the decalogue, the claims of every false god are annulled at one stroke; for the God who here demands our worship is not any created being, but the One who created them all.  The maker of the earth and sea, the sun and moon, and all the starry host, the upholder and governor of the