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"If one contemplates the pressure that our economic and industrial institutions are exerting to obtain maximum utilization of industrial plants - by programming work shifts to ignore any festivity -, it is easy to comprehend how the pattern transmitted to us of the seven day week, with its recurring day of rest and worship, could undergo radical changes." - Pg 9-10, - economic pressures

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Jewish context of the Sabbath
  It's important to look at the Jewish context of the Sabbath when look at the change in the day of worship from Sabbath to Sunday.
      Book From Sabbath To Sunday Page 13
 C.S. Mosna said that W. Rordorf gave "the rise of Sunday festivity a too-Christian origin, neglecting other userful elements and detatching it from its Jewish context." (Storia della domenica, pp. 41 and 5).

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"Therefore we can conclude with certainty that the event of the resurrection has determined the choice of Sunday as the day of worship of the first Christian community." - C. S. Mosna - resurrection

"Some people, concerned by this widespread profanation of the Lord's day, are urging for a civil legislation that would outlaw all activities not compatible with the spirit of Sunday." - sunday legislation

N.J. White claimed "an unbroken and unquestioned Church usage" of the phrase "Lord's day" to refer to Sunday since the earliest apostolic times. - N. J. White

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