title: From Sabbath to Sunday : A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity
author: Samuele Bacchiocchi
description: "...to show how and why Christians moved their day of worship from Saturday to Sunday..."  -- <i>Martin E. Marty, Ph. D., Prof. Church History, Chicago Divinity School, THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY </i><br /><br />FROM SABBATH TO SUNDAY is a remarkable ecumenical portent.  -- <i>Marcus Ward, THE EXPOSITORY TIMES, England </i><br /><br />FROM SABBATH TO SUNDAY is a thorough and painstaking piece of research...  -- <i>Bruce M. Metzger, Professor of New Testament, PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY JOURNAL </i>
  						    	
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  Blavatsky on Sunday devotion to pleasure v. 14.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 May 2018 
  Page 1 of 6 
  True religion is the natural 
  growth of the noblest part 
  of the human heart 
  
  BLAVATSKY SPEAKS SERIES 
  SUNDAY DEVOTION TO PLEASURE 
  Blavatsky on Sunday devotion to pleasure v. 14.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 May 2018 
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  First published in Lucifer, Vol. II, No. 7, March 1888, pp. 1-5. Republished in Blavatsky Collected Writ-
  ings, (SUNDAY DEVOTION TO PLEASURE) IX pp. 66-72. Frontispiece by Georges Croegaert. 
  The following is an extract from the Daily Telegraph of March 1st, [1888], and may 
  speak for itself: 
  At yesterday’s sitting of the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury, the 
  Archbishop presiding, the Bishop of Exeter laid on the table a petition which 
  sets forth: 
  “That there has been of late a very marked increase in the employment of 
  the afternoon and evening of the Lord’s Day in amusements of various 
  kinds by the upper and fashiona