The name they have adoi)ted snggests the principal pccnli-
arities of their faith. They observe tlie seventh-day .Sahltath
in harmony with the litei'al reading (if the fourth coirimand-
ment of the deealonne. trointi' hack to ereation, we learn that




Taiiitiax Uihls.
God created all things in six days. In eommomoration of
that work, he sanctified the soventli day as the .Sabbath, tlms
forming the week. The Seventh-day A(hentists claim that
there is no scriptural account or authority for the change of
the Sa,b1)ath, but that it was instituted l)y the iduu-di alter
her apostasy, and therefore that as Christ and the apostles
kept the ancient Sabbath, and did not sanction the change.
Christians ought to keep the seventh day as God commanded.
