Prize Essays on the Sabbath.
THE Sabbath Alliance of Scotland has offered prizes of £100, £50, £30, and £20, as First, Second, Third, and Fourth Prizes for Essays on the Sabbath. The subjects prescribed by the donor of the prizes are as follows: The Sabbath instituted at the Creation; the Sabbath in the Fourth Commandment not merely a Jewish institution; the question whether the appointment of the last of the seven days of the week as the Sabbath was peculiar to the Jewish dispensation; the relation of the Fourth Commandment to other portions of the Decalogue, special reference being made to present errors in this connection in the teaching and practice of the church of Rome; the proper observance of the Sabbath by nations and private Christians, considering also existing and proposed encroachments upon the sanctity of the Sabbath in our own time. The essays must be lodged under a motto, accompanied by a sealed envelope enclosing the name of the competitor, with the Secretary of the Sabbath Alliance, James Brown, 26 George St., Edinburgh, on or before July 31, 1884. The copyright of the prize essays will be the property of the donor of the prizes.