The "American (?) Sabbath."
By Editor
IN his speech in favor of Sunday, at a mass-meeting held in Oakland recently, a D. D. said: "America established the Sabbath as a household regulation, and we should observe it." Let's see; the commandment must read something like this: "Remember the first day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the first day is the household-regulation Sabbath of the Americans; in it thou shalt not do any work. . . . For in six days the Americans made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the first day; wherefore the Americans blessed the first day and established it." We had no idea that the authority of the Americans extended so far back. Much, however, as our patriotism would incline us to wish America to take the lead in all things, we are forced to admit that in this matter the Pope got the start of her.