IN a speech in favor of the Sunday Law, delivered not long since, a prominent lecturer said: "We are not now concerned as to whether or not Sunday is the Sabbath; the question is, Having a Sunday Law, shall it be enforced? Perhaps the speaker did not mean that his object was to have the Sunday Law enforced regardless of the question of right and wrong. It is possible that he felt so sure that Sunday is the Sabbath that he did not think it worth while to spend time discussing it. We do not presume to say. But we do know that the sentiment expressed by him is the prevailing one among those who are working for a strict observance of the Sunday. It is rare that any one, preacher or layman, undertakes to give any divine authority for Sunday-keeping. We have repeatedly gone to church to listen to what we had been led by the announcement to think would be a Scriptural argument for the observance of Sunday, and have invariably been disappointed. In one instance the speaker commenced with the fourth commandment, and presented a strong seventh-day Sabbath argument. Then he said, "It is a simple matter of history that the Sabbath has been changed to the first day of the week," and without telling how, when, or by whom it was changed, or what history contained the record, he urged his hearers to work earnestly for a Sunday Law. Sometimes the speaker will give the Scriptural argument which shows the seventh day to be the Sabbath, and then will say that God sanctified simply the institution, leaving the day indefinite; and will then urge his hearers to unite in keeping a definite day, the first day, a thing which he says the Lord never intended. And still others will assume, in spite of the Bible declaration to the contrary, that Sunday is the day that was originally sanctified! But in all this there is an entire absence of argument for the Sunday itself. They never come to the point. The appeals are made, not to the Bible, but to the prejudices of the hearers. Why is this? There is but one answer. It is because there is no divine authority for Sunday-keeping. We do not fear that this statement will be controverted. In a matter of such general importance, which is claimed by some as the "foundation of our holy religion," surely some Scriptural argument would have been presented long ago, if any existed. But what shall we say of those lecturers and ministers of the gospel, who are laboring zealously for the maintenance of the Sunday, who are claiming that it is a sacred institution? They are not ignorant men. Can it be that they do not know that the Bible contains no authority for Sunday-keeping? or are they unable to distinguish between a valid argument and one that has no point? We cannot think so, for they reason logically on other matters. And so we are almost constrained to believe that they are really "not concerned as to whether or not it is right," and that, taking counsel of policy and convenience, they are bound to enforce the Sunday Law, right or wrong. Out of many texts of Scripture which give color to this view, we quote only two: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables." 1 Tim.4:3, 4. "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so." Jer. 6:30, 31.