586
The Great Controversy
1856.&rdquoo;—As printed in Anne Fremantle, ed., The Papal En-
cyclicals in their Historical Context (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1956), 146, 152.
It should also be noted that the oath of allegiance to the pope,
quoted in the last paragraph of the citation from Strong, was the
bishop’s oath, not one taken by cardinals.
Page 565. Withholding the Bible from the people.—see note for
page 340.
Page 578. The Ethiopian Church and the Sabbath.—Until rather
recent years the Coptic Church of Ethiopia observed the seventh-day
Sabbath. The Ethiopians also kept Sunday, the first day of the week,
throughout their history as a Christian people. These days were marked
by special services in the churches. The observance of the seventh-
day Sabbath has, however, virtually ceased in modern Ethiopia. For
eyewitness accounts of religious days in Ethiopia, see Pero Gomes
de Teixeira, The Discovery of Abyssinia by the Portuguese in 1520
(translated in English in London: British Museum, 1938), p. 79;
Father Francisco Alvarez, Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to
Abyssinia During the Years 1520-1527, in the records of the Hakluyt
Society (London, 1881), vol. 64, pp. 22-49; Michael Russell, Nubia
and Abyssinia (Quoting Father Lobo, Catholic Missionary in Ethiopia
in 1622) (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837), pp. 226-229; S.
Giacomo Baratti, Late Travels into the Remote Countries of Abyssinia
(London: Benjamin Billingsley, 1670), pp. 134-137; Job Ludolphus,
A New History for Ethiopia (London: S. Smith, 1682), pp. 234-357;
Samuel Gobat, Journal of Three Years’ Residence in Abyssinia (New
York: Ed. of 1850), pp. 55-58, 83-98. For other works touching upon
the question, see Peter Heylyn, History of the Sabbath, 2d ed., 1636,
vol. 2, pp. 198-200; Arthur P. Stanley, Lectures on the History of the
Eastern Church (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1882), lecture 1,
par. 1; C. F. Rey, Romance of the Portuguese in Abyssinia (London: F.
H. and G. Witherley, 1929), pp. 59, 253-297.