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The Sabbath no " burden;" but a " delight." Evil tendencies. 



it to the ohservation and Christian experience of every one) to 

 endear io us the day of religious rest? Would my brother 

 wish it otherwise ? 



A word as to my stand-point and alm in this discussion 

 seems necessary. Let no man think me the advocate of Jew- 

 ish prejudice, or religious intolerance. All my principles for- 

 bid it. I honor no class of men more highly than the apostles 

 and champions of religious liberty. In this respect I belong 

 to the school of Koger Williams, or rather/let me say, to the 

 glory of our common Master, to the school of Christ. Of Him 

 I have learned to '' call no man master on earth/^ and to for- 

 bid no man to do good, because he follows not with me. I go 

 all length with my brother in his abhorrence of bigotry. I 

 say with Paul, that great apostle of Christian liberty : '' Let 

 us not, therefore, judge one another any more ; but judge this 

 rather, that no man ^mt a stumhling-bloch, or an occasion to 

 fall in his hrother^s wayJ^ {Rom. xiv. 13.) I trust he will 

 believe me when I say that, while I entirely acquit him of all 

 such intention, I could not suppress the apprehension that such 

 an ill effect, as is here deprecated, might follow from the con- 

 fident tone and natural tendency of the ^' Six Propositions,'^ 

 against the divine authority of the Sabbath. 



For this reason I wrote at first, and for this reason I now 

 resume the pen. Had W. B. T., in this reply, convinced me 

 of any radical error in my position, or fundamental truth in 

 his own, I should have acknowledged it as cheerfully as I 

 shall any incidental defect he has pointed out in my statements 

 or reasoning. I hope, notwithstanding some strong expres- 

 sions on his part, to find him at least equally open to convic- 

 tion. 



I must repeat my regret that I have so little leisure to give 

 to a discussion so seasonable, so practical, and in its relations 

 to the Law and the Gospel so fundamental and all-pervading. 

 I almost envy my friend, whose opening words on occupying 

 " a small space'^ by " a few remarks,'^ when compared with 



