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lievpJatinn i. — A proof— " of nothiiiir.'' Nocturnal sight. 



specification (as if incidentallj) : Kar» ^utai^ Ga.8Sati>iv — "at the 

 begiuningof the week." What more suitable time conceivable, 

 for the purpose of ascertaining how much of the past week's 

 earnings could be set apart^ than the completion of that week, 

 after the Sabbath was over, and Saturdaj evening "was fully 

 come/' ushering in "the first day of the week ?" {Luke iv. 

 40.) Rather, what other time could have been specified? And 

 "what other time cowZ<i have been — less a " SabhathP'' My 

 friend's castle vanishes at the approach, "into thin air." 



12. The twelfth and last text is Revelatioii i. 10 : "I was 

 in the Spirit on the LorcVs day, and heard behind me a great 

 voice as of a trumpet." A fitting climax to the pyramid of 

 quicksand my friend has so industriously struggled to heap 

 together. Admirable valedictiou of Sunday Sabbatarian vaga- 

 ries, which, built on bottomless assumption, end in unfiithom- 

 able mysticism. ^^ Fhiis coronat opus !" To the initiated, to 

 those who " kiioiv of the doctrine/' it must be overwhelmingly 

 perspicuous that a day in which a trumpct-voice is heard, and 

 a rapt prophet is "in the Spirit," can be nothing else than the 

 "Sabbath day" of the fourth commandment! 



" ' This text,' says W. B. T., perfectly confounded, 'proves — 

 nothing at all!' Just so, once at Damascus, dazzled by a glory 

 too bright for his weak vision, an enemy of Christ for a season 

 was struck blind. ... So my perplexed friend says, 'this text 

 proves — nothing r From my heart I pity him." {pjy. 188, 

 189.) 



If lam not exactly "perplexed" and "perfectly confounded," 

 å priori, I "ought" to have been; and this, in my friend's 

 logic,. is pretty much the same thing. Beaming upon us with 

 the effulgence of the sun at midnight, no doubt this nebulous 

 text "ought" to settle the question, and confound forover all 

 weak eyes. I cannot pretend to rival my friend in seeing. 

 Those not gifted with phosphorescent vision are all unconscious 

 of the "glory" apparent to those more favored individuals who 

 distinguish best by darkncss, because their own eyes furnish 

 the illumination whereby they see. 



