(person) by EverybodysCyclopedia Mon Jun 05 2006 at 21:09:22

Restitutionists, a religious sect in New England. They believe that what man lost in the fall is now beginning to be restored, and that everything is to come back to its original form and purity. Their Sabbath, therefore, occurs on Saturday, as the original day of worship; and their meetings are held Friday evening, because it is Sabbath eve.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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