Review of A Dialogue on the Sabbath and Law
A friend has sent us an article published some time since in The Restitution, entitled, “A Dialogue on the Sabbath and Law,” with the request that we review it. We saw the article at the time of its publication, and read enough to become convinced that it would have no weight with sensible and candid persons, and hence would do no damage. Prejudice, ignorance, and strong partisan feeling, crop out in almost every paragraph. It is so easy for an enemy of the Sabbath, in impersonating its advocate, to make him say just what he wants him to say, bring up only such points as he wishes to meet, and make him put the argument in so weak a shape as to make it in itself ridiculous. It is no representation whatever of the Sabbath argument. A live Sabbath-keeper would have given the writer a very different job. We therefore thought it best to let it pass into its destined oblivion with the least possible stir.