This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... planetary names being given to the days exactly in the same order as among us in Europe, but Friday being the first. The Chinese reckon Jive planets, to the exclusion of the sun and moon; but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions, successively, to each day of the year in a perpetual rotation, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... planetary names being given to the days exactly in the same order as among us in Europe, but Friday being the first. The Chinese reckon Jive planets, to the exclusion of the sun and moon; but they give the name of one of their twenty-eight lunar mansions, successively, to each day of the year in a perpetual rotation, without regard to the moon's changes; so that the same four out of the twenty-eight invariably fall on our Sundays, and constitute, as it were, perpetual Sunday letters. A native Chinese first remarked this odd fact to the author, and, on examination, it proved perfectly correct."--Davis's China. E the world of His creative power, and to the Church of His redeeming grace. Though the early Jewish believers continued to observe the seventh day Sabbath until the destruction of the city and the temple put an end to the Jewish politv, it is, nevertheless, clear that the Lord's day was statedly set apart also for their public assembling, and for commemoration of their Lord's death in the breaking of bread: thus "the same day," that is the day on which Christ rose, "at evening, being the first day of the week, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you; and when He had so said, He showed them His hands and His side: then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord." f Thus was this first, "First day of the week," solemnly and significantly hallowed, and set apart, by the Lord's presence; and the continuous observance of this, the date-day of the Church, seems to imply that the action of the Lord was so obvious, that any formal allusion was superfluous. That it was thus deemed, appears from our finding them on the next Lord's day (the seventh day from that first) again assembled toge...
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