[The following is from the Alamosa (Colo.) Independent Journal of several months ago; it is from an article by Judge C. C. Holbrook, of the 12th judicial district of Colorado in reply to a critic. We omit the first part as not of interest here.] It is true that the statutes [of Colorado] essay to attach sacredness to the “first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.” However, the State constitution provides that “no person shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege, or capacity on account of ‘his opinions concerning religion;” and the statute protects any man who observes the seventh-day Sabbath from being required to do jury duty on that day, leaving the judge to protect himself, which he is presumed to be able to do. But you have so far lost yourself in the intricacies of fundamental and statutory laws in your preferment of the man-made Sabbath, as to entirely overlook the existence of another and higher law, the law of God, which declares that “the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord ‘thy God,’ that “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it,” and thus made it and called it His “holy day,” and then, having made it holy by His blessing and sanctification, commanded us to keep it holy. If God had not made the seventh day holy, we could not keep it holy, for it goes without saying that that which is not holy can not be kept holy. It is not recorded that God ever imparted holiness to any day of the week but the seventh, and He never required any but His servants to keep His holy day. Those who do not serve Him may observe any day or no day. The first day of the week—“the venerable day of the Sun”—is so far from being God’s holy day as to have been the rival of God’s Sabbath in all idolatrous nations almost ever since sun-worship, in which it had its origin, began. And even in Israel there were, at one time, only “seven thousand” who had “not bowed the knee to Baal,” which was the Phoenician and Israelitish name for the sun-god. God’s Sabbath, tho despised and dishonored in Christian lands, is more popular and is kept holy by a greater number of people to-day, than it was even in Israel in the days of Elijah. Its supporters in the world have been comparatively few in all ages. The Sabbath was instituted, and the only day of the week which could possibly represent the purpose for which God says He gave the Sabbath, was selected, blessed, and sanctified as such before sin had entered into the world, and while man was pure and upright in the sight of God. This God-made and God-blessed Sabbath is to remain and be kept by God’s people a “perpetual sign,” a memorial forever, not only in the present world, but in “the earth made new,” from which sickness and sorrow, pain and death will be forever banished, and into which the unrepentant sinner can never enter. Quite a while after the death of the apostles, when there had been many accessions to the church from pagan ranks, who still believed in “the venerable day of the sun,” the rival of God’s Sabbath began to gain popularity in the Christian church; but it was not until A. D. 364, when the pagans of Rome had been flocking into the Christian church by the thousands, that the sun-worshipers became sufficiently strong in the church to substitute their “day of the sun” for God’s “holy day.” It was then, as history records, that many, on their way to the Christian church, would stop at the temple of Apollo and worship and then proceed to the church. From A. D. 323 to 364, the church had recognized the sacredness of the Sunday as well as that of the Sabbath, and during that period had made a pretense of keeping both days, and the dropping of the Sabbath in A. D. 364 enabled the pagan accessions to the church to go through the forms of worshiping both God and the sun on the same day. But the church in Western Europe, Northern Africa, England, and Scotland refused to substitute the Sunday for the Sabbath; and it took many hundreds of years to get them all to change. Some were forced to change at the point of the sword, while others were induced by fraud and deception to drop God’s holy day and accept instead the “day of the sun,” as for instance the fraudulent roll referred to in my former letter, containing a new commandment, and alleged to have fallen from heaven upon Saint Simeon’s altar at Jerusalem about A. D. 1201, by which the church in England was induced to drop the Sabbath in that year, and the church in Scotland was led away from the Sabbath by the same fraud in A. D. 1203, which historical facts you admit.