Rebuilding a lost Faith:
By John L. Stoddard. Chapter 9. Page 80.   1922.

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Protestants often deride the authority of Church tradition, and clam to be directed by the Bible only; yet they, too, have been guided by customs of the ancient Church, which find no warrant in the Bible, but rest on Church tradition only! A striking instance of this is the following:- The first positive command in the Decalogue is to “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy,”  and this precept was enforced by the Jews for thousands of years. But the Sabbath Day, the observance of which God commanded, was our Saturday. Yet who among either Catholic s or Protestants, except a sect or two, like the “Seventh Day Baptists,” ever keep that commandment now? None. Why is this? The Bible, which Protestants clam to obey exclusively, gives no authorisation for the substitution of the first day of the week for the seventh. On what authority, therefore, have they done so? Plainly on the authority of that very Catholic Church which they abandoned, and whose traditions they condemn.