THE OBLIGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



REPLY TO ''W. B. T." 



PART I. 



" Whosoever, therefore, sliall break one of these least commandments, 

 and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of 

 heaven; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be 

 called great in the kingdom of heaven." — Matthew v. 19. 



Messrs. Editors : — 



I HAVE read with interest, not unmixed witb melan- 

 cholv, the ingenious defence by W. B. T. of the ^'Six Anti- 

 sabbatarian Propositions.'' It is written with vivacity and 

 force, is courteous in tone, and its argument is lawyer-like in 

 subtlety, brilliancy, and strength. 



If (as he claims by the text he has prefixed as a motto) 

 he regards himself as defending Christian liherty, I honor his 

 motives ', but at the same time must lament that he entertains 

 such views of the Sabbath as to suppose it was ever to piousmen 

 a hurden and a hondage. The good of old were taught of Grod to 

 ^^ call the Sabbath a delight.'^ A very different class of men 

 were they who said, " What a weariness is it !" '^ When will 

 the Sabbath be gone ?" 



Should not this single Scriptural contrast suggest to his 

 mind that, after all, his views may be wrong ? And if wrong, 

 then dangerous ? Is the liberty which Christ has come to give 

 us, a liberty from, or a liberty to, holy delight ? Is it not the 

 uniform effect of a spiritual change in true conversion (I put 



