But the question naturally arises: How came
they [the Taipings] to adopt the seventh day of the week instead of
the first, as their Sabbath, since all their instruction
from Christians was by those who taught that the
first day is the Sabbath? This was a mystery to all
who learned of that fact. But when they took Nan-King [Nanjing], and Europeans had opportunity to visit them,
they were told that it was first, because the Bible
taught it, and second, because their ancestors observed it as a day of worship.
Lewis, Abram Herbert, A Critical History of the Sabbath and the Sunday in the Christian Church, Alfred Centre, N. Y.: The American Sabbath Tract Society, 1886, p. 247.
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