OBLIGATION OF THE SABBATH. 



National prosperity dependent on the Sabbath. Truth invincible. 



witnessing by their prosperity, to tlie price God himself pays, 

 even in temporal things, to those nations that remain faithful 

 to the first of his laws.'' In other parts of his Report (which 

 occupies fourteen columns of the 3foniteur'), this eminent 

 statesman places the public profanation of the Sabbath in the 

 first rank of popular dangers and faults; declaring it is like a 

 puhlic profession ofAtlieism, violating liberty, violating equality 

 before God, and nourishing ignorance, vice, and disorder. 



I have dwelt long on this point, perhaps too long. But the 

 settlement of this will greatly aid in determining other points 

 involved in the remaining Propositions. Necessity compels 

 me to close this communication here. In a future one, I hope 

 more briefly to dispatch what remains. May " the Lord of 

 the Sabbath'' bless my friend ! 



J. N. B. 



PART II. 



" Whosoever therefore shall 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 hearen," — Matthew v. 19. 



I HOPE no one may be dismayed by the length to which this 

 Discussion has been carried, or discouraged from reading it for 

 fear of its resulting in the establishment of error, or the 

 perplexity of merely ^^ doubtful disputations." It is a Christ- 

 ian law (doubted by n© Protestant, and disputed only by the 

 Romanist), " prove all things ; hold fast that which is good ; 

 abstain from all appearance of evil.^' Truth loves examina- 

 tion. Rooted in its Eternal Autlior, God, it rears its majestic 

 form to the light of evidence, and safe in His protection, defies 

 alike the tempestuous sway of opinion, the lightning shaft of 

 wit, and the untempered edge of sophistry. The clouds of 



