OUR SABBATH PUBLICATIONS.
By Editor
Brethren, have you read them? Do you know what they contain? Do you know which are best adapted to meet any particular line of argument against the Sabbath? The Sabbath question has now become so prominent that ministers everywhere are preaching against the seventh day. Our friends naturally feel an interest in these efforts, and send in pamphlets and papers in which they are published, requesting that they be reviewed. We thank the brethren for their remembrance of us. We are glad to receive these documents; for we like to know what is going on in the line of Sabbath agitation; but to comply with their requests, and notice them all, would not be advisable. It would, in the first place, leave us no time for anything else; and, secondly, the reply would be of special interest only in the locality where the effort under review was made. It would be better to use the weapons already provided than to forge new ones. The Sabbath publications of this Office contain arguments which have never been, and never can be, refuted; and they notice all the positions which the Right Reverend Doctors of this age, such as Mr. Stand-on-nothing, Mr. Daub-it-over, Mr. Mist-and-moonshine, and others to the end of the list, are accustomed to take. So we would say to the brethren everywhere, Acquaint yourselves with these works; select such as the occasion may require; and kindly, respectfully, but vigilantly, bring them to the notice of the people. Let every attack upon the Sabbath bring down an avalanche of these publications, to be spread over all the community. The honest in heart will give them attention, and the effect will not be lost.