“The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

Vol. III, p. 224
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 (1885)

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