Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... and promises to our labours therein an abundant harvest. The motive is strong, the recompense is ample; and I would fain hope that the exertion will be proportionate, both in its strength and its endurance. December 30, 1855. SABBATARIAN AGITATION. To the Rev. Joshua KingsmilL Throughout your pamphlet you assume the high ground of abstract and absolute right. You identify the law of the sabbath with the religion of the Bible. Now, to oppose Sabbatarianism is with you "false religion" or "infidelity." The use of our eyes on the Sunday is sabbath desecration, and those who differ from you "have arrayed against them the whole religious mind of their country." This is very bold and unwarrantable language, in reference to a dogma which has at no time commanded the assent of a majority of professing Christians, which has no real support either from scripture or tradition, and which is, in fact, confined to a section of religionists, and to the last three centuries in the history of that section. Such lofty assumptions should rest upon a broader basis; they should be characterised by more consistency. You talk of the fourth commandment, and you lead the verbal prayers of your congregation "to keep that law." But you do not keep it. The law is for the observance of the seventh day, and you transfer it to the first without any recorded repeal or even modification. No evangelist or apostle has given any authority for the transfer of the seventh day to the first. That law, moreover, was for the observance of a day, not reckoned from midnight to midnight, but from sunset to sunset. Supposing the day altered, you are still a sabbath-breaker; and the stated hours are surely as important as the stated day! May I ask, too, as to the mode of observance? Do you not avail y...
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