The Fourth Commandment Pied.
ALL printers know what pi is. It is when type falls down into an indiscriminate and shapeless mass. If set up in this condition, the confusion is still more apparent. A sentence last week appeared in the first proof as follows: “Dr. H., by invitation of the conference, spoke affirming the perpetuity of the fourth commandment.” The reader will perceive that the last two words contain all the letters necessary to spell “fourth commandment;” but being partially pied, they present the foregoing uncouth and senseless words. It struck us at once that this was a good illustration of the ideas of very many people at the present day on the Sabbath question. The views of multitudes, even of those who profess to be teachers of the word, are in just about as incoherent and unintelligible a condition as the foregoing words. In short, throughout a large portion of Christendom, the fourth commandment has been pied. It is a part of the mission of Sabbath reformers to straighten it up.