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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

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	Sunday Sabbath schools for people of all ages has been emphasized in the Methodist tradition:<ref name="PhillipsHunt"/>		Sunday Sabbath schools for people of all ages has been emphasized in the Methodist tradition:<ref name="PhillipsHunt"/>
	{{quotation\|Constantly, we are meeting men and women fifty, sixty, and seventy years of age who have never seen a Bible. They come, anxious and earnest, to be led into the truth. Such, "as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word." Now, all such people, no matter what their age or other circumstances, can only be considered as children. They should be, and are, gathered into Sabbath-schools to read and study the word of God.<ref name="PhillipsHunt">{{cite journal\|title=Sunday-School Union\|journal=Manual of the Methodist Episcopal Church \|date=1880 \|publisher=Phillips & Hunt \|page=253-254 \|language=en\|volume=1\|number=1}}</ref>}}		{{quotation\|Constantly, we are meeting men and women fifty, sixty, and seventy years of age who have never seen a Bible. They come, anxious and earnest, to be led into the truth. Such, "as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word." Now, all such people, no matter what their age or other circumstances, can only be considered as children. They should be, and are, gathered into Sabbath-schools to read and study the word of God.<ref name="PhillipsHunt">{{cite journal\|title=Sunday-School Union\|journal=Manual of the Methodist Episcopal Church \|date=1880 \|publisher=Phillips & Hunt \|page=253-254 \|language=en\|volume=1\|number=1}}</ref>}}

			===Reformed===
			[[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] (Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Reformed Anglican) provide for Sabbath School curriculum. The [[Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster]] Sabbath School curriculum categorizes various objectives by age group.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Sabbath School Curriculum \|url=https://www.freepresbyterian.org/wp-content/uploads/Sabbath-School-Curriculum.pdf \|publisher=Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster Sabbath School Commission \|access-date=11 September 2026 \|date=2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster – Sabbath School Curriculum \|url=https://www.freepresbyterian.org/sabbath-school-curriculum/ \|access-date=11 September 2026 \|date=2014}}</ref> The Reformed cleric James Calvin McFeeters expounded upon the Sabbath School curricula, stating that it should be from the Bible and the [[subordinate standard]]s such as the [[Westminster Standards]].<ref>{{cite web \|last1=McFeeters \|first1=James Calvin \|title=The Place Our Church Standards Should Occupy in Sabbath School Teaching \|url=https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mcfeeters-1886-the-place-our-church-standards-should-occupy-in-sabbath-school-teaching \|publisher=[[Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary]] \|access-date=11 September 2026 \|language=en \|date=16 July 2026}}</ref>

	===Seventh-day Adventism===		===Seventh-day Adventism===

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Tucker2011"/><ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref~~><ref name="BMCC2014"/~~> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="Tucker2011"/><ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014~~"/><ref name="Tucker2011~~"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Tucker2011"/><ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="Tucker2011"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.

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	==Curriculum==		==Curriculum==
	===Methodism===		===Methodism===
	''The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Church'' specifies concerning Sabbath Schools in ¶330, "The instruction given in the school shall be the doctrines of the word of God as expounded in the recognized standards of the Methodist Church. The Methodist Catechisms shall be taught in each school."<ref>{{cite book \|~~last2~~=Williams \|~~first2~~=John A. \|title=The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Church \|date=1884 \|publisher=William Briggs \|page=153 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Minutes of the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church \|date=1880 \|publisher=Western Methodist Book Concern Press \|page=449 \|language=en \|quote=We long to see a time when every Methodist family shall read our own weeklies and every Methodist Sabbath-school be supplied with our own publications.}}</ref>		''The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Church'' specifies concerning Sabbath Schools in ¶330, "The instruction given in the school shall be the doctrines of the word of God as expounded in the recognized standards of the Methodist Church. The Methodist Catechisms shall be taught in each school."<ref>{{cite book \|last=Williams \|first=John A. \|title=The Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Church \|date=1884 \|publisher=William Briggs \|page=153 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Minutes of the Central Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church \|date=1880 \|publisher=Western Methodist Book Concern Press \|page=449 \|language=en \|quote=We long to see a time when every Methodist family shall read our own weeklies and every Methodist Sabbath-school be supplied with our own publications.}}</ref>

	[[Wesleyan theology\|Wesleyan]] [[Methodism\|Methodist]] denominations use various Sabbath School curricula, such as ''Circuit Rider'' (Old Paths Tract Society) and those texts published by Herald and Banner Press.<ref name="MeadHill2001">{{cite book \|last1=Mead \|first1=Frank Spencer \|last2=Hill \|first2=Samuel S. \|title=Handbook of Denominations in the United States \|date=2001 \|publisher=Abingdon Press \|isbn=978-0-687-06983-5 \|page=166 \|language=en}}</ref>		[[Wesleyan theology\|Wesleyan]] [[Methodism\|Methodist]] denominations use various Sabbath School curricula, such as ''Circuit Rider'' (Old Paths Tract Society) and those texts published by Herald and Banner Press.<ref name="MeadHill2001">{{cite book \|last1=Mead \|first1=Frank Spencer \|last2=Hill \|first2=Samuel S. \|title=Handbook of Denominations in the United States \|date=2001 \|publisher=Abingdon Press \|isbn=978-0-687-06983-5 \|page=166 \|language=en}}</ref>

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	Sunday Sabbath schools for people of all ages has been emphasized in the Methodist tradition:<ref name="PhillipsHunt"/>		Sunday Sabbath schools for people of all ages has been emphasized in the Methodist tradition:<ref name="PhillipsHunt"/>
	{{quotation\|Constantly, we are meeting men and women fifty, sixty, and seventy years of age who have never seen a Bible. They come, anxious and earnest, to be led into the truth. Such, "as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word." Now, all such people, no matter what their age or other circumstances, can only be considered as children. They should be, and are, gathered into Sabbath-schools to read and study the word of God.<ref name="PhillipsHunt">{{cite journal\|title=Manual of the Methodist Episcopal Church \|date=1880 \|publisher=Phillips & Hunt \|page=253-254 \|language=en\|volume=1\|number=1}}</ref>}}		{{quotation\|Constantly, we are meeting men and women fifty, sixty, and seventy years of age who have never seen a Bible. They come, anxious and earnest, to be led into the truth. Such, "as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word." Now, all such people, no matter what their age or other circumstances, can only be considered as children. They should be, and are, gathered into Sabbath-schools to read and study the word of God.<ref name="PhillipsHunt">{{cite journal\|title=Sunday-School Union\|journal=Manual of the Methodist Episcopal Church \|date=1880 \|publisher=Phillips & Hunt \|page=253-254 \|language=en\|volume=1\|number=1}}</ref>}}

	===Seventh-day Adventism===		===Seventh-day Adventism===

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Tucker2011"/><ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref~~><ref name="BMCC2014"/~~> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="Tucker2011"/><ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014~~"/><ref name="Tucker2011~~"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Tucker2011"/><ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="Tucker2011"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.

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	'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>		'''Sabbath school''' is held by various [[Christian denominations]] on the day that they consider to be the [[Sabbath in Christianity\|Sabbath]], either on Sundays (as with the Reformed and Methodists) or on Saturdays (as with Seventh-day Adventists).<ref name="BMCC2014"/><ref name="PMC1864"/>

	In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>		In [[Sabbatarianism\|first-day Sabbatarian]] churches (such as [[Reformed Christianity\|Reformed Churches]] and [[List of Methodist denominations\|Methodist denominations]]),<ref name="BMCC2014">{{cite web\|url=http://www.biblemethodist.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2014-Bible-Methodist-Discipline.pdf\|title=Discipline of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches\|year=2014\|pages=30\|language=en\|access-date=19 June 2017\|quote=We believe that the Lord’s Day, celebrated on Sunday, the first day of the week, throughout the Christian church, is the Christian sabbath, which we reverently observe as a day of rest and worship and as the continuing memorial of our Savior’s resurrection. For this reason, we abstain from secular work and from all merchandising on this holy day, except that required by mercy or necessity.}}</ref><ref name="Tucker2011">{{cite book \|last1=Tucker \|first1=Karen B. Westerfield \|title=American Methodist Worship \|date=27 April 2011 \|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA \|isbn=978-0-19-977415-9 \|page=45 \|language=en\|quote=Methodists had no difficulty transferring the seventh-day legislation of the Decalogue to the first day of the week, a conclusion reinforced by the Sabbath theology of English Puritanism that had influenced Wesley and the nascent Methodist movement, and by the sabbatarian ethos of New England that permeated the religious life of the country. Required by their General Rules to avoid “profaning the day of the Lord,” Methodists regarded keeping the Lord’s Day as a duty, a delight, and a means of grace. No unessential labor or commerce was to be undertaken, and one was to avoid causing others to work. Private devotion and corporate worship were the duties at hand, yielding the dual blessings of spiritual renewal and physical rest. Personal and communal observance of the Lord’s Day was therefore taken quite seriously: Bishop Asbury berated himself for riding his horse unnecessarily on the Sabbath}}</ref> Sabbath school occurs on Sundays, which is regarded as the [[Lord's Day]] and Christian Sabbath.<ref name="Hughes2006">{{cite web \|last1=Hughes \|first1=James R. \|title=The Sabbath: A Universal and Enduring Ordinance of God \|url=http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|publisher=[[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)\|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] \|access-date=6 October 2020 \|language=en \|date=2006 \|archive-date=9 October 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009003251/http://www.epctoronto.org/Press/Publications_JRHughes/The_Sabbath-A_Universal_and_Enduring_Ordinance_of_God.pdf \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BMCC2014"/> In the present day, first-day Sabbatarian denominations often refer to Sabbath school as [[Sunday school]].<ref name="PMC1864">{{cite book \|editor1-last=Antliff \|editor1-first=William \|title=The Primitive Methodist Sabbath-School Hymn Book\|date=1864 \|publisher=Richard Davies \|page=23 \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book \|title=Annual Report of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting \|date=1853 \|publisher=Massachusetts Sabbath School Society \|page=35 \|language=en \|quote=General Synod's Sabbath School Union of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church: This Church embraces about 400 Churches and from 46,000 to 50,000 members. It has connected with it not far from 600 Sabbath schools and about 25,000 scholars. The Sabbath School Union of this Church was formed in 1828 and existed as an independent association until 1839.}}</ref>

	In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.		In [[List of Seventh-day Sabbath-keeping churches\|Seventh-day Sabatatarian]] churches (such as the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/current-quarter\|title=2nd Quarter 2025-Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy\|first=Adult Bible Study\|last=Guide\|website=www.adultbiblestudyguide.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> [[Seventh Day Baptist]]s,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources/ \|title=Seventh Day Baptist » Worship Resources \|website=seventhdaybaptist.org \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716031931/http://seventhdaybaptist.org/community/worship-resources \|archive-date=2015-07-16}} </ref> [[Church of God (Seventh-Day)\|Church of God]],<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.churchofgod-7thday.org/publications/quarterlies.html\|title=Sabbath School Lessons\|website=www.churchofgod-7thday.org\|accessdate=22 June 2025}}</ref> among others), Sabbath School occurs on Saturdays.