SIR. TATL0B.'S THIIID REPLY. 255 



The "First Proposition" fully establislied. Cliristianity -vnthout a Sabbathl 



consistent Eoman Catholic, over all observers of Sunday call- 

 ing themselves Protestants, is indeed complete and unanswer- 

 able !* 



I submit to every intelligent, impartial reader, that my 

 "First Proposition" is establisbed beyond all reasonable 

 ground of objection or escape: "Tbere is one, and only one, 

 weekly Sabbath enjoined, described, or in tlie remotest manner 

 alluded to, in the whole Bible, wbether Hebrew or Christian, — 

 the Saturday Sabbath," the seventli day of the fourth com- 

 mandment. And I claim with confidence the unreserved benefife 

 of my friend's concession, that " all the other five Propo- 

 sitions live iciiJi itP' (p. 182.) 



So, then, we are to believe that the Christianity of the Bible 

 has iw Sahlath claij! That honored institution, which has 

 been so zealously defended and so eloquently vaunted from a 

 thousand pulpits — which, handed down through successive 

 generations, has demanded and obtained a submissiye and un- 

 questioning observance — which has been so prominently incul- 

 cated in the pious trainings of infancy, and perhaps, imbibed 

 from the fervent lips of maternal affection, has become indeli- 

 bly associated with the earliest and strongest impressions of 

 habit, of conscience, and of duty — which has revived, with its 

 ever-recurring peiiod of religions inspirations, the toil-worn 

 spirit of the faithful living, or cheered with its clustering 

 memories the pillow of the hopeful dying — and which, gather- 

 ing around its shechmah the force of a thousand devotional 

 impulses, has animated its votaries with a confidence implicit 

 and intolerant^ while its violation has inspired a sentiment of 

 horror, has been accounted the synonyme of " ungodliness" 

 aud " profanity," has been held up to the unruly school-boy 



* It sliould present a subject of very grave reflection to Christians 

 of the "reformed"' and *' evangelical" denominations, to find that no 

 single argument or suggestion can be offered in favor of Sunday ob- 

 servance, that will not apply -svith equal force and to its fullest extent 

 in sustaining the varioas other "holy days" appointed by *• the Chui*ch." 



