The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-28
"rhe initiation (of the heathen) was

| performed in the following manner:
The candidates, crowned with myrtle,
were admitted by night into the mystic
temple . AS they entered the tenn
pie they purified their hands by wash
ing in holy water" What do the
Catholics do7 Other things also were
| taken into the church in the same line
till Mosheim says: GA large part
therefore, of the Christian observances
and institutions, even in this (the Sec
ond) century had the aspect of the
pagan mysteries. The next step in
addition to this was the adoption of
the day of the sun as a festival To
such an extent were the forms of
sunworship practiced in this apostacy,
that before the close of the second cen
fury the heather themselves charged
these so-called Christians with worship
ing the sun. SO that Tertulian felt
compelled to apologize for their Gus
toms for he says: "Others, again,
certainly with more information and
greater verisimilitude believe that the
sun is our god. We shall be counted
Persians perhaps, though we do not
worship the orb of day painted on
piece of linen cloth The idea
has no doubt originated from our being
known to turn to the east to pray"
"Others, with greater re-
gard to good manners, it must be con-
fessed, suppose that the sun is the
god of the Christians because it is a
well known fact that we pray toward
the east, or because we make Sunday
day of Festivity." Speaking to
the heather he says): cit is you at
all events, who have admitted the sun
into the calendar of the week; and
you have selected it's day, in prefer
ence to the preceding day, as the most
suitable in the week for either an en-
tire abstinence from the bath, or for
its postponement till evening, or for
taking rest and banqueting." The
time of the celebration of the passover
was also changed in this century from
the 14th day of the first month to the
Sunday that came nearest to that day,
unless that day should fall on Sunday
and then it was postponed till the next
Sunday.
So things went on from bad to worse
till "Celsus, in his celebrated con-
troversy with Origen, asserts that this
philosophical notion of the Deity is per-
fectly reconcilable with paganism. -
Millman.
A. ID. 240-270, Mosheim says: "When
Gregory perceived that the ignorant
multitude persisted in their idolatry, on
account of the pleasures and sensual
qualifications which they enjoyed at
the pagan festivals, he granted them
oernission to indulge themselves in like
pleasures, in celebrating the memory
Of the holy martyrs, hoping that in
process of time, they would return Of
heir own accord to a more virtuous
md regular course of life. There is
40 sort of doubt that, by this permits
sion, Gregory allowed the Christians to
lance, sport and feast at the tombs of
martyrs, upon their respective festivals,
and do everything which the pagans
we're accustomed to in their temples,
Turing the feasts celebrated in honor
# their gods" Then in the fourth
century comes Constantine with his
miles and official favors and white
obes and money to induce all to Join
he church till it could be said that
'the vast numbers who, from external
considerations, without any inward call
Joined themselves to the Christian COM
nunities, served to introduce into the
hurch all the corruptions of the heath
n world. Pagan vices, pagan decisions,
agan superstition, took the garb and
ame of Christianity and were thus
nabled to exert a more corrupting in
iuence on the Christian life. Ne
nder
Here is where Sunday came from.
The church took the 'swild solar holt
agan members; but all did not accept
f it; so Constantine s Sunday law was
ut in force, and yet, many could not
elieve that it really took the place
the Sabbath so Eusebius in A. d. $50
ried to settle it by saying: can things
whatsoever that it was duty to do on
he Sabbath, these we have transferred
the Lords day.-Cox' Sabbath Laws.
Here we have the Sunday fully es-
abhshed. You took it from the pagans
nd placed it in the Christian church
ne same as you took their images and
enamed them after the martyrs. Then
hen the Professionals came out from
GU they left the pagan images and
oily water with you but they still re-
aimed the pagan Sunday and many
Their things for which the true Bible
hristian has no use.
l. do not see WHY Won should criticise