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The dawn broke slowly upon the chamber, and Almamen still slept. It was the Sabbath of the Christians -- that day on which the Saviour rose from the dead -- thence named so emphatically and sublimely by the early Church THE LORD'S DAY.
[Before the Christian era, the Sunday was, however, called the Lord's day -- i.e., the day of the Lord the Sun.]