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The " Lord's day" a legacy of the Church. The inheritance questioned. i 



the "Lord's day/' The Resurrection of Christ is the centre- 

 point of Chrislianity. Everything dear to a Christianis soul 

 is attached to it, and revolves around it. It is the grand 

 unmistakable ^' sign" of the Divine authority of our Lord. 

 And as sure as He is our Lord, He " is Lord also of the 

 Sabbath day." 



As you, Messrs. Editors, see fit to limit me to one more 

 short article, I will endeavor to comjDrise in it what I think 

 most essential, in order to bring tliis protracted Discussion to 

 a close. May a blessing attend it, even to my friend W. B. T. ! 



J. N. B. 



PAPtT III. 



" This is the day -wiiicli the Lord hath made ; Tve will rejoice and 

 be glad in it." — Psalms cxviii. 24. 



*' I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." — Revelation i. 10. 



The ''Lord's day," or the Christian Sabbath, has been for 

 eighteen hundred years in the peaceful possession of the 

 Christian Church. She claims it as a legacy from her risen 

 and asccnded Lord. She attaches to it /or His sake a pecu- 

 liar value, independent of all its inherent advantages, phy- 

 sical, moral, social, intellectual, and religions. Yet at this 

 day, it seems there are men who from some cause, worthy or 

 unworthy, dispute her title to this rich inheritance. My 

 friend W. B. T., in so doing, evidently thinks that he is 

 ^'doing God service," and ridding Christianity of '^a burden." 

 But let him look well to his work; lest a voice unmistakable 

 arrest him with the startling interrogation that once smote 

 Saul of Tarsus to the soul ! 



I would warn, not threaten. Men belonging to Religions 

 Establishments, and believing in the power of the Civil 

 Groyernment over religions affairs, may easily satisfy them- 



