THE CHRISTIAN UNION ON THE SABBATH QUESTION.
The Christian Union of Oct. 1, 1879, authoritatively defines its position on the Sabbath question by giving a definition of such a Sabbath as it believes in. If it don’t take the matter pretty well out of the hands of the Lord, and give an institution that is loose enough for the loosest, we know not how to judge. The reader, however, will decide for himself when he reads the following:— Some of our contemporaries are puzzled how to interpret the views of the Christian Union respecting the Sabbath question. If they wish to report us both briefly and correctly they may do it by printing the following sentence: The Christian Union believes that a divine law, of universal obligation, wrought into man’s nature long before it was propounded from Mount Sinai, requires every man to devote one day in seven to rest from his ordinary toil; a day to be made available for moral and spiritual culture, through worship and instruction; but that every age is left to determine for itself, and largely every individual for himself, the methods best adapted to secure these great ends.